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Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, ... Smallweed also drives Mr George into bankruptcy by abruptly calling in a loan.
He portrayed the mean money lender Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (2005), [1] and as Jeff Hope, a cab driver in the first episode of Sherlock (2010). [1] From 2009 until 2013, Davis played a main role as DS Ray Miles in the ITV1 series Whitechapel, starring alongside Rupert Penry Jones and Steve Pemberton. [3]
Bleak House's highest ratings came for the sixth episode on 11 November, which attracted an average of 6.91 million viewers and a 29.5% share of the audience. [ 12 ] The penultimate episode, broadcast on Thursday 15 December, gained an audience of 5.2 million, losing out to The Bill on ITV which gained 6.3 million viewers.
Smallweed, Mr A moneylender in Bleak House. An evil man who enjoys inflicting emotional pain on other people. He drives Mr George into bankruptcy by calling in debts. Mr Tulkinghorn is his attorney in that case. It has been suggested that his description (together with his grandchildren) fit that of a person with progeria. [22]
Drake also starred as Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (1985), and Filipina Dreamgirls, a TV film for the BBC. His final appearances on stage were with Jim Davidson in Sinderella, his adult adaptation of Cinderella, as Baron Hard-on. A live recording of one of the dates on the tour of the pantomime was later adapted, and edited ...
One such place is Bleak House Books, a new independent bookstore in Honeoye Falls that will have its grand opening Saturday. Its narrative arc is positively novelistic: from humble beginnings to ...
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Bleak House is a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1853). [1]The series was the second adaptation of Bleak House by the BBC (the first being in 1959). [2]