Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Director and playwright Mike Leigh described the " Gilbertian " style as follows:

The British director Mike Leigh makes extensive use of improvisation in the creation of his films, including improvising important moments in the characters lives that will not even appear in the film.

** Mike Leigh, British film director

2011 Bathurst and Gold Coast rounds had a commentary team of Leigh Diffey, Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, and Calvin Fish on site.

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Newlyweds Miguel " Mike " Vargas ( Charlton Heston ) and Susie ( Janet Leigh ) pass the car several times on foot.

The group includes Bill Nicholson, Ho Chi Minh, David Gray, Mike Leigh, Oliver Tambo, Chipmunk ( rapper ) and David Tennant.

* The 2008 Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky largely takes place in Camden Town.

* Mike Leigh ( born 1943 ), film and theatre director, screenwriter

The 1997 Mike Leigh film Career Girls is about a reunion between two women who shared a flat six years earlier whilst studying at the Polytechnic of North London.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Jim Stafford ( who served as their head writer and producer ), Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner (" Mike Stivic "), Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

She first appeared on screen as Lucy Collins in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside from 1982 to 1988 and later became well known for her film work with directors such as Mike Leigh and Lars von Trier.

The impact of Cartlidge's sudden death saw the creation of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation by the trustees Mike Leigh, Peter Gevisser, Simon McBurney, Chris Simon and Cat Villiers.

* Mike Leigh – Abigail's Party

In 1988 a humorous book called The Book of Revelations ( Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine ) printed a parody of both Beatrix Potter and Sven Hassel entitled Peter Rabbit-Tank Killer, lampooning the fashion of the period for unscrupulous publishers and literary estates to draft in famous authors to pen " continuations " of their most successful characters and series.

* In the 1993 Mike Leigh film Naked, the anti-hero Johnny walks past several promotional posters of the album cover as he roams the underbelly of London by night ; this is also mentioned in the published screenplay of the film.

* Mike Leigh, writer and director of film and theatre

Work on the stage with Mike Leigh includes Goosepimples and Ecstasy.

He proved his ability as a character actor in films including The Crying Game ( 1992 ), Enchanted April ( 1992 ), Bullets Over Broadway ( 1994 ), The Borrowers ( 1997 ), and Little Voice ( 1998 ) before taking a leading role in another Mike Leigh film, Topsy-Turvy ( 1999 ), playing dramatist Sir William S. Gilbert.

It was featured on the TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the South, appeared in the 1976 Mike Leigh TV film Nuts in May and was used for location filming in the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric.

Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.

The play developed in lengthy improvisations during which Mike Leigh explored the characters with the actors, but did not always reveal the incidents that would occur during the play.

She is a reluctant and sometimes traitorous party to the office's determination to keep Mike away from production meetings.

She is always very supportive of Mike and there are often hints that she actually has a crush on him.

She and Mike Robertson convinced Edwards to come to town and record a country album.

She met Mike Sweeney while still living on the East Coast ; after moving to Sonoma County, California, they married.

She was a guest star in one episode of the popular Ben Casey television series starring Vince Edwards and was a frequent guest on chat shows of the day including numerous appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson.

She writes a phone number on a scrap of paper, which leads Mike to the local veterans ' hospital where Steven has been for several months.

She was temporarily replaced by Alderman Jerry May, and in the August, 2007 election, Councilman Mike Schneider was elected mayor.

She married composer Mike Verta on March 22, 2009, in La Jolla, California ; the couple had dated since 2001.

The song was officially released on Monsters of Folk's 2009 self-titled album, on which Oberst teams up with Jim James ( of My Morning Jacket ), M. Ward ( of She & Him ), and Mike Mogis ( of Bright Eyes ).

She has fought on the undercard of boxers Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Félix Trinidad and Julio César Chávez.

She co-wrote the hardback reference book, Ace, The Inside Story of the End of An Era with Mike Tucker, published by Virgin Publishing in 1996.

She played Mike in the 1948 Western film Yellow Sky with Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark.

She is married to former England rugby union player Mike Tindall, but is better known by her maiden name which she uses for informal public occasions.

She has also appeared on numerous TV Talk shows and co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show in 1970.

She starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel.

She also appears to have a small rivalry with The Bash Street Kids, as shown in feature length strips drawn by Mike Pearse.

She lost, finishing fourteen votes behind incumbent New Democrat Mike Davison.

" She explains to Mike that Archie yells at him not because he hates Mike but because he is jealous of Mike's many opportunities in life.

She briefly shows interest in Mike Cannon.

She had a recurring role as Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the television series Mike Hammer, Private Eye and made guest appearances on such shows as

She assumed the office of Governor of the State of Utah after previous governor Mike Leavitt was nominated by President George W. Bush to lead the Environmental Protection Agency in 2003.