Star profile: Santa Claus

It is maybe the most likable old man that exists on earth. It has beard, he is a little fat, he is always dressed in a red suit, comes from North Pole into a sledge drove by reindeers, with Rudolph ahead, and maybe the most important thing he comes with presents. Yes, we talk about Santa Claus, the character that became the Christmas symbol and bought every year the smile on children and adults face.

It was just a matter of time until such an iconic figure to step up in front of filming cameras and appear in everyone’s home.

How many of you know which was one of the Santa Claus first apparition in a movie? Well this apparition comes from more than 100 years, in 1987, a short film called Santa Claus Filling Stockings. Two years later, in 1899, George Albert Smith directed a new movie – Santa Claus, in which Santa enters through house’s chimney and put presents under the Christmas tree, and when he finishes sharing presents, he disappears in a blink of an eye through the fireplace.

Everything started from classic scenarios, without complex actions, in which Santa does his duty and brings toy for the children, then he disappears through house’s fireplace and lets people wait for him next year. With time Santa’s mission became more and more complicated, in some movies he was presented as a hero, while in other movies his existence is at doubt. Neither the approach of a “bad” Santa wasn’t left outside, after Jeff Gillen and Billy Bob Thorton played the roles of some Santa’s that instead of amusing, scared the children.
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Star profile: Christian Bale

Christian Bale is a really representative image of Hollywood’s quality, becoming shortly a reference name in good, tensioned and complex acting… His role in Batman from the genial revitalization proposed by Christopher Nolan didn’t make anything else than to cement his image of an actor that fits well into somber roles with more or less violence in them. What does really matter about this actor is that he doesn’t fit into the Hollywood’s standard picture, the surface one of ridiculous and irrelevant entertainment. Bale is a part of another category of actors.

Christopher Bale was born in Wales on January 30 1974. His father, David Bale, was an entrepreneur, commercial race driver and “talent” manager. His mother, Jenny James was a clown for a circus. In 1976 Bale family left Wales, and Bale spent his childhood in Great Britain, Portugal and United States of America. Established for a period of 4 years in Bournemouth and Henley-on-Thames, Bales was registered to “Shiplake C of E” primary school, Dolphin school from Berkshire and Bournemouth school. In this period, Bale participated in ballet courses, took guitar classes and joined many Rugby teams.
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Biographies of Top British Actors

The British film industry has continuously gone through boom and bust periods, with the high of the sixties followed by the low of the eighties, and then by a revival in the nineties. It has always had a bit of an identity crisis, as it has inevitably responded to influences from abroad, particularly Hollywood. Despite this, it is very well respected around the world, and has been responsible for some of the greatest films ever made. For example, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), Brief Encounter (1945), The Third Man (1949), The Bridge over the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Get Carter! (1971), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Trainspotting (1996), show that the industry has produced great films throughout the decades. Over these years there has been many great British actors and actress, and Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, and Michael Caine are certainly some of the greatest.

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