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Garrick as Ambassador Dean with Danny Huston
and Vincent Ricotta in ‘Fade to Black’
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| Dr. Mewling
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Garrick in Ninja
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Garrick Hagon Interview
for the Sony-award-winning
Insight Radio |
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Judge Bristol |
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| Agent Waters in Shadow Man |
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| Arturo Canino |
Garrick with Laurent Almedo
as Jacques Pils |
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Cy Wilson, Director of CIA, with Larry Bryggman
in "Spy Game" with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. |
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| Julie Walters |
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| Leslie Phillips reads 'Hello' |
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| Eamonn Holmes recording This Is My Life |
Latest Film News
View Garrick's new (April 2011) 4-minute demo video on the Screen page, or click here to access it now (Quicktime Format, 8.90 MB).
In Philip Stolzl’s ‘The Expatriate’ with Aaron Eckhart and Olgya Kurylenko, Garrick is James Holgate III.
In Barcelona recently, Garrick played Howard McColm in Rodrigo Cortes’s new film ‘Red Lights’ which which stars Robert de Niro and Sigourney Weaver.
In Simon Fellows' zany, up-dated Alice in Wonderland film, 'Malice in Wonderland', Garrick plays Louis Dodgson, Alice's father. (The name has interesting connotations: Dodgson was the family name of Lewis Carroll.) Maggie Grace stars as Alice.
(The Story Circle unabridged productions of the original Alice books starring Jo Wyatt, Richard Wilson and a full cast and directed by Garrick can now be downloaded from www.naxosaudiobooks.com)
In Richard Linklater's 'Me and Orson Welles', starring Zac Efron and Clare Danes, Garrick plays Zac’s English professor, Dr. Mewling.
In John Crowley’s ‘Is There Anybody There?’ starring Michael Caine, Leslie Philips, Rosemary Harris and a wonderful cast, Garrick plays Sylvia Sims son-in-law, Douglas.
Garrick played Harry Hopkins in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s ‘Churchill at War’ by Hugh Whitemore with Brendan Gleeson as Churchill and Len Cariou as Roosevelt.
In Paul Schrader’s ‘The Walker’ starring Woody Harrelson, Lauren Bacall and Lily Tomlin, Garrick plays John Krebs. And in the Emmy-Award winning Danish TV series, The Eagle, filmed in Iceland, Garrick played a Mafia boss, Canino, in the final two episodes.
At Prague Studios, Garrick has played Edith Piaf’s American Doctor in the French film La Vie En Rose, with writer/director Olivier Dahan. It stars Marion Cotillard and Gerard Depardieu.
In the BBC serial ‘The Line of Beauty’ he played Morden Lipscomb, directed by Saul Dibb and in Paul Verhoeven’s European film, ‘Black Book’, shot in Den Haag, he was The
General.
With director Oliver Parker in Belgrade, he was Ambassador Dunn in ‘Fade to Black’, a film about Orson Welles, played by Danny Huston, and in Bucharest he played Agent Waters in ‘Shadows of
the Past’ directed by Michael Keusch and starring Steven Seagal. Also on location in Bucharest was the Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer ‘Second-in-Command’ directed by Simon Fellowes in
which Garrick played the Secretary of State.
Lately for BBC Radio 4 ...
Garrick played Donald Rumsfeld in Dirk Maggs’ production of ‘Washington 9/11’ to be broadcast on the anniversary of that event.
In 'Moby Dick' directed by Kate McAll, adapted by Steph Pinney, Garrick played Captain Ahab.
In Andrew Walker's 'The Man Who Jumped From Space' he is Colonel John Stapp who was in command of Captain Joe Kittinger's famous 130,000-foot jump from a balloon. Directed by Gary Brown.
In Julian Holloway's 'The Kane Conspiracy' directed by Sara Davies, Garrick plays RKO boss George Schaefer.
Latest
Audio News
Garrick has recently directed Claire Bloom reading Diana Athill’s ‘Somewhere Towards the End’ and Diana Athill herself reading her own short stories for Persephone Books, Ian McKellen reading Michelle Paver’s five-part series of ‘Wolf Brother’, Michael Maloney reading ‘Fever of the Bone’ and Finty Williams reading Rosamund Lupton’s ‘Afterwards’. For ISIS he has just read ‘Postcard Killers’ by James Patterson.
Julie Walters has recorded her warm and funny autobiography That's Another Story for Orion Audiobooks with Garrick directing at Sans Walk Spoken Word.
Ian McKellen has recorded the fourth part of Michelle Paver’s ‘Chronicles of Ancient Darkness’ titled ‘Outcast’ with Garrick directing at Sans Walk Spoken Word.
In the David Attenborough program ‘Lobo’ for BBC, Garrick played the voice of the trapper-turned-ecologist, Ernest Thompson Seton.
In New York at CDM Studios, Garrick has directed Frances McDormand in an exciting and very lively reading of the 1930’s book by Winifred Watson ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’, now a film starring Frances and Amy Adams which has its US premiere on March 2nd.
Garrick directed Philip Pullman who narrated his own story, ‘Once Upon a Time in the North’ with a cast of Story Circle actors. David Rintoul read Alexander McCall Smith’s latest book, ‘The World According to Bertie’ and Samantha Bond has read ‘Priestess of the White’ the first book in the new Trudi Canavan trilogy. Garrick also directed Rupert Degas and Mark Bonnar reading the abridged ‘Long Way Down’, the exciting diary of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman as they rode their bikes from John O’Groats to the tip of Africa.
For Hachette Audio Garrick has read A.E.Homes’ ‘This Book Will Change Your Life’, directed by Liza Ross at Sans Walk Studios.
Garrick directed Juliet Stevenson reading ‘The Thirteenth Tale’ by Diane Setterfield and Leslie Phillips reading his autobiography, aptly named ‘Hello’, both productions for Orion Audiobooks. He also produced and abridged with Liza Ross the autobiography of Johnson Beharry, V.C., read by Damian Lynch, for Hachette Audiobooks and Mark Haddon’s new book, ‘A Spot of Bother’, read by Alex Jennings.
Review of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ by Sue Arnold in The Guardian, Saturday, March 11, 2006:
Ideally this would have been a review of the new Mark Twain biography by Ron Power, but if Matisse, Nijinsky and Coleridge are anything to go by, it won’t make it to audio. Serious biographies rarely do. So here’s the next best thing, an unabridged edition of Twain’s finest book, read with such unfeigned warmth, humour and gusto by Garrick Hagon that, to coin a phrase, “well, blame me if I says it and call me a low-down abolitionist if I durst but, thinks I, Mr Twain would mostwise reckon it powerful good, an I ain’t fooling, dog my catch if I ain’t.”
That’s the big problem with first-person narratives delivered in the vernacular. Vernon God Little, Angela’s Ashes, anything by William Faulker and (I’ll be lynched for saying this) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime are the same. Unless you’re familiar with the accent and sympathetic to the tone, they take some getting into on the page. But listening to someone like Hagon, whose repertoire of accents and voices is flawless, you’re immediately swept into the story without a hiccup. And what a story. Not for nothing are they called adventures, though so are Tom Sawyer’s and they aren’t a patch on the glorious escapades of the inimitable, irrepressible, incorrigible Huck Finn and Jim the runaway slave.... This is a genuine classic, full of laughs and fights and scams and Wild West characters that deserve a wider, younger audience. Don’t miss this brilliant performance.
Hear excerpts of Huckleberry Finn on the Voice page.
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