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The Jigsaw Man The link to "The Jigsow Man" in the Filmography points to a short science fiction story by Larry Niven rather than to a page on the (dreadful) movie starring Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier.

Deleted filmography

I still don't get it. Why would anyone want to delete information that is already there and that has been checked and double-checked? Why is a bare minimum filmography more encyclopaedic than an annotated one? --KF 14:08, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

As far as I am concerned, I am not aware of having deleted information.

Chris K 15:01, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Well, during your first edit today you removed from the list below everything except film title and year. I am just wondering why. For uniformity's sake? Because you think it's irrelevant? I think that as long as we don't have a separate entry on, say, Half Moon Street it might be interesting for users to learn a bit more than just the absolute minimum. I also believe that cross references is what a good encyclopaedia should be all about.

Selected filmography

(the IMDb lists 131 films)

• Zulu (1964)
• The Ipcress File (1965) (novel by Len Deighton)
• Alfie (1966) (play by Bill Naughton)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• Get Carter (1971, also remake 2000)
• Sleuth (1972) (play by Anthony Shaffer)
• The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King (1975) (story by Rudyard Kipling)
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
• Dressed to Kill (1980) (written and directed by Brian de Palma)
• Deathtrap (1982) (play by Ira Levin)
• Educating Rita (1983) (play by Willy Russell)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (written and directed by Woody Allen)
• Half Moon Street (1986) (based on Paul Theroux's novel Doctor Slaughter)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (story by Robert Louis Stevenson)
• A Shock to the System (1990) (novel by Simon Brett)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) (novel by Charles Dickens)
• Noises Off (1992) (play by Michael Frayn)
• The Cider House Rules (1999) (screenplay by John Irving, based on his own novel)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• The Quiet American (2002) (novel by Graham Greene)

KF 20:12, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, KF,

I did not remember that I deleted the comments in Michael Caine's "Selected filmography". I thought it was another actor's article where I did that, as I am working on several actors at a time. Again, I deleted it for uniformity. Ich finde, diese Kommentare gehören in die Artikel der jeweiligen Filme, aber nicht in die Liste, wie sie selbst sagen. Und so wird es auch im allgemeinen in den "Listen" gemacht, wo nur Jahreszahl(en) erscheinen. Um einheitlich zu bleiben, würde ich auch keine weiteren Kommentare bei den Filmen hinzufügen über die es noch keinen Artikel gibt. In Ihrer Liste von Filmen haben ja die meisten schon einen Artikel, und dennoch stehen Kommentare bei etlichen dieser Filme. In any case, this is a team work, and you are not going to have any problem with me. If you want to add again the comments, I will certainly respect it. However, please, leave the list sorted as it is now, from the most recent films down to the oldest, as it is the rule in Wikipedia. Chris K 08:01, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I haven't changed anything and I'm not going to. Basically I think I don't care about uniformity because it will never be achieved: Just look at the articles on (a random list) Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin or Mia Farrow. Looks like a lot of work (for you?). All the best, KF 10:15, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Birthplace

I think he was born in Bermondsey (which isn't really East End of London) Secretlondon 13:35, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

BBC Radio 4 Front Row interview

available for 7 days only http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tyv8c

30 min interview with Mark Lawson