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In Richard Linklater’s new film, ‘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 the Darlow/Smithson drama/doc 'Futureshock: Comet' filming in Arizona, Garrick plays NASA Administrator Frank Lampanelli.
At the Sergio Leone Ranch in Almeria, Garrick played Judge Bristol in the BBC-Discovery Drama/doc on ‘Billy the Kid’.
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.
With Nu Image Prods. in Sophia, Bulgaria, he played The General in ‘Finding Rin Tin Tin’, directed by Danny Lerner.
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.
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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.
And for Orion Audiobooks, Garrick directed Ruth Wilson, a recent Golden Globe and Bafta nominee, in her reading of Lauren St. John’s new book, ‘Dolphin Song’, the sequel to St. John’s ‘The White Giraffe’, which is slated for filming in the near future.
For Orion Audiobooks Garrick has read the intriguing and sensitive thriller, ‘A Quiet Belief in Angels’, by R.J. Ellory, a recent Richard and Judy book choice, and for Isis Audiobooks James Patterson’s latest Alex Cross story, ‘Double Cross’.
Garrick is directing Philip Pullman narrating his newest story, ‘Once Upon a Time in the North’ with a cast of Story Circle actors. David Rintoul is reading 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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Marilynne Robinson’s wonderful book ‘Gilead’ was read by Garrick for BBC’s Bedtime Story.
Garrick has played Harpo Marx in Lee Pressman’s comedy for BBC Radio 4 called ‘Harpo Goes to Leningrad’ due to be broadcast May 4th. It is based on a little-known episode in Harpo’s life when he was asked to tour Russia as a US special (and possibly secret) envoy, which he tells in his autobiography, ‘Harpo Speaks’.
Eamonn is still smiling after rising with the dawn to do his morning show, Sunrise, for Sky News and then recording his autobiography for two days at Strathmore Studios. Garrick directed, with Ross Burman as sound engineer, for Orion Audiobooks.
Garrick has directed Vikram Seth reading his new book, Two Lives, with actors Vincent Ebrahim, Eve Karpf and Tim Bentinck. For Naxos Audiobooks he has directed full cast, unabridged productions of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and Plato's Symposium.
For Strathmore Publishing Garrick produced Charles Spencer reading his historical work, Blenheim: Battle for Europe, and Nick Mason reading Inside Out, his thrilling account of life with Pink Floyd, and Sir Ian McKellen reading Spirit Walker, the sequel to Michelle Paver’s best-selling book, Wolf Brother.
For Harper Collins Audiobooks, he directed Niamh Cusack reading Helen Dunsmore’s atmospheric children’s story, Ingo.
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