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Please browse through the list of Jonathan's performance credits below. Alternatively, if you are looking for examples of specific productions or roles, please use the search form:
| Feature Film |
| Bar Stewards (Jun 10 2007) |
Post Production |
The makers of the acclaimed 'Diary of a Bad Lad' asked me to play a cameo in their dark comedy 'Bar Stewards' featuring Chris Finch from Band of Brothers and Corrie.
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| Dead Eyes (Jul 7 2006) |
Now Playing |
'Dead Eyes' was made as film experiment to trial an International Film Competition before it's launch. The Wysiwyg 80/80 challenge is similar a 24hr Film Challenge, but the remit is to make an 80 minute film in 80 hours. Conceive, shoot, edit, score, deliver. Most people said it was impossible....
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| Confetti (Mar 14 2005) |
Now Playing |
I was asked by the production company to play a small role in the feature film 'Confetti'. Based around a wedding competition where three couples compete for a massive wedding prize it stars a who's who of popular British comedy.
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| Deadpan Valentine (Jan 12 2005) |
Now Playing |
This will be a very funny film. Having not played the lead in a feature in 2004, I was really pleased to have got this comedy lead role in the indie feature film Deadpan Valentine.
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| Life, Translated (Oct 15 2003) |
Now Playing |
A Chinese crew, helmed by the director Agan, worked with Jonathan Wiessler's company Balagan to shoot Jet Lag in the UK. Due for release across the Far East this Spring, it tells the story of adolescent love in a foreign country, against the backdrop of a classic English boarding school.
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| The Ultimate Truth (Jul 20 2002) |
Now Playing |
We began shooting this comedy feature in the summer in the New Forest. It can be described as a contemporary political satire, but it is far more amusing than that sounds.
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| Through The Looking Glass (Feb 20 2002) |
Post Production |
A great script came my way in early February, described as a psychological horror film which was more in league with the original The Haunting and The Shining, than a slasher flick. Through the Looking Glass was indeed a visually provocative and very original screenplay.
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| The Only Hotel (Sep 20 2001) |
Completed |
This is the third feature I have been involved in, and it encountered a variety of problems during production, but the result should be a winner.
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| The Devil's Music (Mar 12 2000) |
Completed |
First feature from 'Beyond the Line' production company. The film is about the contrived construction of a rock band in 1962, for the gain of an underworld boss.
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| Sleepless (Sep 19 1999) |
Pre Production |
I auditioned for this film back in August '99 and flew to Vienna that September to begin performing a lead role in this feature film project by students from the 'Filmakademie Wien' in Austria.
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| Short Film |
| The Progressive Adventures of Mr Vista (Jan 10 2008) |
Now Playing |
Imagine an office based Mr Bean... Now make him a little sadder... No - with even less friends... Put him in a bright blue hat and a green shirt... Yes? Now you have Mr Vista.
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| Infamy (Mar 18 2008) |
Now Playing |
In February I auditioned for the lead role in a short film with a brilliant concept and script - the story of a man who is so desperate to get on Reality TV that he goes to all manner of ends to achieve his goal, including ultimately, holding a shop up at gunpoint to make the local news.
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| The Other Half (Apr 20 2007) |
Completed |
This film was shot on Super-8 for the 'Straight 8 Competition'.
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| Untitled Simon Dennis 35mm Project |
Post Production |
A brilliant day with my BAFTA winning DOP friend Simon Dennis trying out new 35mm lenses on an HD camera. The results look pretty good and he's weaving a tale together out of it as we speak. Dealing with issues of claustraphobia and paranoia.
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| Towel Talk |
Now Playing |
The film that won the Cannes 24hr Film Challenge...
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| Poker Joker |
Now Playing |
A very commercial, slick short film. I play a poker hustler who gets his comeupance when he crosses the wrong guy...
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| Flown (Mar 10 2006) |
Post Production |
Flown is a short film by a young and talented film maker, Emily Cooper, commissioned to open the Psycho-Analytical Film Festival at BAFTA.
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| The Swimmer |
Pre Production |
The Swimmer is a 10 minute short written and developed by Chris Rosewell, who I have collaborated with on a number of occasions. Told in a series of striking and often surreal images, it charts the impact of a relationship break up from the man's perspective.
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| Special Delivery (Dec 17 2005) |
Post Production |
Set in a 1940's sorting office and shot on 35mm, this uber-short, silent film was a a chance to work on something quirky and artistic.
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| Walking Stories (Sep 10 2004) |
Now Playing |
I had been wanting to work with the South Yorkshire Film Network for some time, and I had the chance to on this short film based on a poem.
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| Being Venus (Aug 24 2004) |
Now Playing |
Being Venus is the first film that I produced as well as acted in. I had wanted to use some of my other skills and found that I took very naturally to producing. I enjoyed every minute of it, realised that I have a network around me and it gave me a great sense of accomplishment.
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| Carrier (Apr 3 2004) |
Completed |
This action / effects film was a collaboration between myself and film maker Andrew Mackay. A 'short feature', rather than just a 'short', Carrier was fun to work on and quite gruesome too. In fact down right grizzly. I hate yoghurt.
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| Albuquerque (Jun 3 2003) |
Completed |
This short film was loosley based around lyrics from the Neil Young song of the same name. My character was the selfish, cynical and self important 'friend' to the main protagonist, a weedy, vulnerable, bumbling character called Linus.
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| Girl On A Moped (Nov 20 2002) |
Completed |
There was a good feeling about this one all the way from the first audition to the shoot.
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| The Art of the Critic (Aug 25 2001) |
Now Playing |
A very professional outfit came together under the direction of BAFTA winning film maker, Dom Shaw, to make this 15 minute short.
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| The Perfect Gentleman (Oct 20 2001) |
Completed |
This short film had been in the pipeline for months. I first met the writer, Dave and director, Damion in November 2001 to talk about the script and the serial killer character Daniel.
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| The Hat & Coat (Oct 6 2000) |
Completed |
Filmed over a few days in a London pub, this short film is a surreal look at the final thoughts of a man, shot by mistake by a hit man.
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| Theatre |
| A Life in the Theatre (Aug 11 2008) |
Pre Production |
The production of David Mamet's snappy two-hander went exceptionally well and was a joy to perform.
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| One, Nineteen (Nov 13 2007) |
Completed |
Having not been on stage for over six years, I siezed on a theatre job with Net Curtains Theatre Company, playing in an ensemble at The Arcola Theatre in London. The play, 'One, Nineteen' by 'Archers' writer Tim Stimpson, is a punchy contemporary piece that takes a cutting view on how our desire for increasingly dramatic news is fed by a media led by its own agenda.
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| New Writing at The Palace Theatre Watford (Feb 10 2004) |
Completed |
I have been working this year with The Palace Theatre Watford on a number of projects and workshops. From showcasing new writing to turning my hand to directing, it's been a rewarding Spring in Watford.
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| The Kemper Parliament Show (Apr 20 2002) |
Completed |
After a great week at RADA on the Advanced Drama in Television course, Colin asked me to be part of a one night only dinner theatre extravaganza at The Banqueting House on Whitehall.
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| Occam's Razor (Jul 5 2001) |
Completed |
A surreal one this. A very non-naturalistic play performed with a marriage between stylized actions and naturalistic emotional resonance.
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| Untouched (Jan 2 2001) |
Completed |
First theatre since finishing training. Untouched explores the subjective nature of love and it's effect upon one woman and those around her in her life.
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| The Cherry Orchard (May 5 1999) |
Completed |
Final major performance at BSSD. An external director worked on this classic Chekhov play and breathed new light into a text which is often incorrectly portrayed as turgid.
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| The Fifteen Streets (Feb 18 1999) |
Completed |
Public performance at BSSD. I played the lead character in this adaptation of the Catherine Cookson novel.
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| BSSD Showcase (Jul 7 1999) |
Completed |
End of BSSD Showcase at West End Theatre. In this short selection of exerpts, I worked with two colleagues on two different plays.
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| You Never Can Tell (Jan 8 1999) |
Completed |
First performance while training at BSSD.
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| Box / ing (Jun 18 1997) |
Completed |
Final project at DCA. Three colleagues and myself wrote, designed, directed, lit, built and staged a play as a one off performance.
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| The Yellow Box (Apr 10 1996) |
Completed |
A surreal self-devised piece of theatre shown as a one off performance at DCA. Directed by a visitng Polish practitioner, The Yellow Box showed the meeting of different characters from history, both real and ficticious, in the same space and time.
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| Archangels Don't Play Pinball (May 14 1994) |
Completed |
In this lesser known play from the master of farce, the cast played many different parts. One minute I was a prostitute, the next an Italian Gangster.
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| TV |
| Seeking Mona |
Development |
A car accident one night strips Greg - a successful painter in his early 70’s - of everything valuable to him, leaving him alone and blind in a world once filled with light and love.
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| The Ideas Mechanic (Dec 10 2005) |
Post Production |
I worked for two days with New Fugitive TV on this comedy pilot - a very funny piece about a London 'visionary' who believes that he can draw the potential out of anyone or anything. I played a an actor who took his advice and re-invented himself...
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| Shoot The Writers - ITV 1 (Feb 10 2004) |
Completed |
To be screened over 13 weeks in the summer, Shoot The Writers is a concept show by independent television producer and director, Colin Bennett.
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| Murder Call (May 11 1998) |
Completed |
Small-featured character in Australian television's detective drama thriller. While travelling. want to know more?
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| All Saints (May 2 1998) |
Completed |
Again, Australian television; this time a small-featured character in hospital drama. While travelling in 1998. want to know more?
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| Voiceover |
| Do You Do a Didgeridoo? (Jun 6 2008) |
Now Playing |
A fantastic children's book about an eccentric man who searches high and low for a didgeridoo... I narrated the book for a CD that accompanies it in the US market.
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| Too Ghoul for School |
Now Playing |
Narrative voice job reading children's stories - great fun and brilliant books!
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| Spamalot Game - Monty Python (Jan 15 2007) |
Now Playing |
Dream job with Monty Python! (In a round-about way). A game has been designed to promote both the musical Spamalot and the product Spam, a game which required a number of character voices and noises, and a one man choir singing the Spam Song. Which I happily provided....
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| Blake's 7 - The Audio Adventures (Dec 4 2006) |
Now Playing |
Re-imagining the classic TV series, the BLAKE’S 7 audio adventures (written by Ben Aaronovitch, Marc Platt and James Swallow) were first made available on the new SCI FI Play broadband player section of the SCI FI channel website and then broadcast on BBC7 over Christmas 2007.
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| Pathologic (Feb 14 2006) |
Now Playing |
Another curious Russian computer game that needed some crazy voices. want to know more?
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| Speak and Play Toy (Jan 6 2006) |
Completed |
I can retire happy, knowing that I am the voice of a children's toy! want to know more?
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| Hard Truck Apocalypse (Nov 20 2005) |
Completed |
I played a number of animated characters in this Russian Video game.
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| BBC 1Xtra Link (Nov 11 2005) |
Completed |
Just a small jingle for Radio 1Xtra's annual 'Homegrown Weekend'. Follow the link to hear it. want to know more?
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| Auto Trader (Dec 11 2004) |
Now Playing |
Much like the telephony voice work I did for Parcelforce Worldwide, this was for the voice activated system for Auto Trader magazine. want to know more?
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| Radio Ad for Birmingham NEC Event (Apr 12 2004) |
Completed |
This was my first Radio Ad voice over. For 'Interbuild' - a builder's expo at the Birmingham NEC.
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| 'Comet' Christmas Game (Oct 10 2003) |
Completed |
An animation Voice Over job for the high street shop Comet. They have developed a seasonal game for their website involving Father Christmas and all sorts of pesky elves, cheeky penguins and rather stupid turkeys....! I had great fun voicing ALL the characters and game instructions.
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| Parcelforce Worldwide (Apr 10 2003) |
Now Playing |
My first Voice Over work; as the new voice for the telephone systems of Parcelforce Worldwide.
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