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Chris Hayward is known for Brian and Charles (2022), SOS: Save Our Skins (2014) and Misery Bear (2009).
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Jun 17, 2022 · Actor Chris Hayward plays Charles on the set of director Jim Archer's Brian And Charles. Credit: Will Davies / Focus Features. Screen Rant: David, how did the role of Brian begin for you? What inspired him and how has he most evolved?
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Jan 22, 2022 · Although Charles is only sophisticated enough to tell knock knock jokes, Archer, Earl and Hayward go for far greater laughs with the quite original comic duo, generating sparks that aren’t from Charles malfunctioning.
- Brian and Charles from Stage to screen
- David Earl Shows The Softer Side of Brian Gittins
- David Earl Brings His Experience as A Parent to Brian and Charles
- Chris Hayward on The Comedy of Brian and Charles
Earl and Hayward have actually been performing as these characters for several years, with the idea of Charles originating in 2013 with Earl's friend Rupert Majendie on a radio show. They would take the characters to popular live shows, having all written routines for them, and Majendie would be in the back typing Charles' dialogue into a computer,...
Brian is actually a variation of a character that Earl has played around with for nearly two decades. Brian Gittins, as he is known, is rather popular in the UK as an often wildly inappropriate, verbally inventive comedy character who has appeared in several radio series and Ricky Gervais shows like Extras and After Life, though the character is fl...
Part of this kindness and authenticity comes from the fact that Brian and Charles is largely symbolic of the process of parenting itself. Earl is a parent, and throughout this last decade of playing with the Brian and Charles characters, he's obviously seen his son grow up quite a bit. Earl movingly explains how he drew from the sometimes heartbrea...
The inherent sweetness of Brian and Charles doesn't detract from its humor one bit. For Hayward, whose character largely embodies the figure of the son, the main goal was to make Earl laugh. Hayward is a great writer who worked on the legendary early 2000s British comedy shows Big Train and Smack the Pony, and later Trollied and Cardinal Burns, but...
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Christopher Robert Hayward (June 19, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American television writer and producer. He was the co-creator, with Allan Burns, of the television shows The Munsters (1964) and My Mother the Car (1965), and the creator of Dudley Do-Right.
Jul 8, 2022 · Brian and Charles: Directed by Jim Archer. With David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie. After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation.
Jun 16, 2022 · The same can be said of David Earl and Chris Hayward, the stars and co-screenwriters behind Brian and Charles. When Brian (Earl), an ingenious but lonely inventor, decides to create a robot from junk yard parts, his creation becomes so much more than he could have ever dreamed of.
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