Sean Bury

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Sean Bury (born August 15, 1954 in Brighton , Sussex ) is a British actor who played with children's roles on television, but mainly through the lead role in Lewis Gilbert's love story Friends (1971) and the sequel Paul and Michelle (1974) got known.

Life

At the age of nine, Bury received a scholarship from the Winchester Cathedral Choir , where he was a boarder and singer in 1963/64. He then received a musical grant from Brighton College. In London he attended the Corona Drama School and sang in the choir of the Westminster Cathedral . In 1964 he was ten years old at the side of a Great Dane in a six-part children's TV series to see ( respect for the dog , Eng. Title Beware of the Dog ). In 1968 he convinced Jute as a long-suffering student in the film trilogy If ... by Lindsay Anderson , in which the sometimes hard life in everyday school life was discussed. A year later, Bury made a brief appearance in the American musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips . He got his first stage role in Alan Bennett's West End production Forty Years On . 1969/70 he was in the Royal Bristol Theater in the play Poor Horace William Fairchild a Marine - kindergarten before the Second World War occupied. Bury celebrated his greatest international success in 1971 in the romance film The Young Lovers , in which he was seen as the defiant 15-year-old student Paul Harrison, who breaks out of rich but lonely circumstances in Paris and flees to the Camargue with a 14-year-old friend to lead a self-determined life there. The sequel Paul and Michelle (1974), also with Bury in the lead role, was less successful. His film career ended in 1977 with a brief appearance as a soldier in the James Bond production The Spy Who Loved Me .

In 2004, Bury announced that he was now working as a carer for people in need, which earned him very little money, but the best part was their smile anyway. He is happy to have got to know "both, very different worlds". The film business revolves around attention, the nursing profession is exhilarating and much calmer, but both offer interesting opportunities, fun and challenges.

Quote

It is incredible that a film on such a small budget that Anicée (Alvina) and I were wonderfully fortunate to make so many years ago is still attracting attention. Thanks for all the comments. I can assure you that making The Young Lovers was a lot of fun and it was an honor to work with Lewis Gilbert, who later made some great films. I will always remember his words after the preview: 'Sean', he said as he shook my hand, 'there is nothing to be ashamed of ...' I breathed a sigh of relief. Then he added: '... but nothing to be proud of either.' Some busy years as a young actor were gone! " - Sean Bury on his role in The Young Lovers

Filmography

Feature films

Television productions

  • 1969: ITV Playhouse (End of Story) (1 episode)
  • 1970: The Misfit (On Being British) (1 episode)
  • 1971: ITV Saturday Night Theater (Fly on the Wall) (3 episodes)
  • 1971: Tom Brown's Schooldays (3 episodes)
  • 1971: Sunday Night Theater (First Sight)
  • 1972: The Onedin Line (Bloody Week) (1 episode)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Holmstrom: The moving picture boy: an international encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995 , London 1996, p. 305
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Bury, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , Sussex