Four Weddings - the other side

Tonight this year's Comic Relief is broadcast. The highlight is a semi sequel to rom com Four Weddings and a Funeral. Some of the actors who appeared in it have played roles at odds with that's film fluffy reputation. Here are 3 of them.


John Hannah

Hannah has a role call of playing brooding characters including being the first to play a screen version of Ian Rankin's John Rebus. The most interesting was in the first season of Alias playing the colour blind hitman who killed Sydney (Jennifer Garner) Bristow's fiance. John is redeemed in the end.


James Fleet

Four Weddings started a string of goofy yet amiable characters for Fleet including another Richard Curtis production The Vicar of Dibley. 3 years before Fleet in long forgotten TV crime thriller The Advocates played a serial killer of buskers considering them noting more than buskers considering them nothing more than beggars!


David Haigh

In the 1980 Doctor Who serial The Leisure Hive Haigh played a power mad alien. Tom Baker's Doctor falls foul of him and finds himself in an atom machine that turns him into an old man. However The Doctor gets his own by deaging back into a baby.