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  Mark Gatiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham, England) is an English actor and writer.
Gatiss is famously a long-time fan of the British television science-fiction series Doctor Who, preferring its style from the 1970s.
In mainstream print, Gatiss is responsible for an acclaimed biography of the film director James Whale.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Gatiss   (687 words)

  
 The League of Gentlemen (comedy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The League of Gentlemen is a quartet of British comedy writer/performers, formed in 1995 by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steven Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
The three actors in the League (Gatiss, Pemberton and Shearsmith) also toured the UK from October to mid-December 2005 with a pantomime-themed show "The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You".
Mark Gatiss has said in interview that the local shop was inspired by a shop in the town of Hove.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen_(comedy)   (1702 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Reviews
Gatiss' plot is nothing particularly special, like his novels most of the interest comes from his wonderful characters and not necessarily what they are doing.
Gatiss, whom I've already mentioned, is perfect as Jeapes, leading me to assume that wrote the part for himself, and he captures some of the appeal of Michael Robbins' Richard Mace from 'The Visitation'.
Gatiss' novels have always had humour in, and considering that he's one of The League Of Gentlemen this is not a surprise.
www.gallifreyone.com /review.php?id=bf-2   (3578 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Mark Gatiss (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham, UK) is a British actor and writer.
He is best known as a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, which initially began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to BBC Radio 4 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen in 1997 and then arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999.
The latter has seen Gatiss and his colleagues awarded with a BAFTA Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.
www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Mark_Gatiss   (366 words)

  
 The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss « Book Review « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
Mark Gatiss is, of course, best known as one of the League of Gentlemen.
Gatiss has previously published a series of Doctor Who novels and a few sci-fi elements creep into the latter stages of the narrative – like the helmeted guards who patrol the villain’s lair and are impervious to pain.
Gatiss’ “bit of fluff” may be fan fiction, but its superior fan fiction, a rather guilty pleasure; there’s enough invention here to fully merit development, and a second instalment would certainly be welcome.
www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=0743257057   (838 words)

  
 The Vesuvius Club
Mark was born around 1854, the son of a country Squire.
Mark was born 100 years later than he should have been, in County Durham, of hardy mining stock.
A true enthusiast of all things romantically Victorian, Mark was understandably jealous when his friend Jeremy Dyson contracted TB, but forgave him enough to write several series of “The League of Gentlemen” with Dyson and acting chums Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
www.vesuviusclub.com /author.htm   (224 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Interview: Mark Gatiss from The League of Gentlemen on his new novel
Mark Gatiss has taken time out from playing twisted miscreants in The League of Gentlemen to write his own novel - and as he tells Angelique Chrisafis, the book, like the TV show, was inspired by his dreary childhood in a grim post-industrial Durham town
The local extras for one scene were so well chosen, says Mark Gatiss, co-writer and co-star of the TV series and film, that they reminded him of his childhood growing up opposite a Victorian psychiatric hospital in County Durham.
Gatiss, 38, is sitting by the radiator in a trailer, smoothing the bloody apron worn by Hilary Briss, the village butcher he plays in the hit series.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1342049,00.html   (1275 words)

  
 Interview with Mark Gatiss
Mark says he's always loved Doctor Who storylines which involve travelling back in time as well as far into the future.
Almost a year on from being asked to write for the new series, Mark still almost cannot believe that Doctor Who is returning.
Mark adds: "I think Chris makes a great Doctor, and they're both clearly men having fun.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /features/arc/2005/nz7994.php   (417 words)

  
 Mark Gatiss - Moviefone
(The pseudonym is an anagram of "Mark Gatiss", a nod to the Master who often used anagrams or translations of his title as false names, and to Anthony...
Mark Gatiss - a dated list of TV Comedy shows shown on UK television featuring Mark Gatiss in the cast of crew, with links to more information about each...
Mark Gatiss - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Mark Gatiss Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/mark-gatiss/321686/main   (118 words)

  
 The Vesuvius Club
Mark will be reading from the book and also signing copies at Folyes bookshop.
Mark Gatiss has been nominated for the Waterstones Newcommer award.
Read our exclusive interview with Mark Gatiss here, in which we ask him about the new Lucifer Box novel and just about everything else.
www.vesuviusclub.com /index.html   (1095 words)

  
 Mark Gatiss News
Also on the all-star cast of the feature-length movie are Matt Lucas as Toad, Mark Gatiss as Rat, Lee Ingleby as Mole and Imelda Staunton as the Barge Lady.
Gatiss, Lucas and Hoskins to Star In New Adaptation of The Wind In The Willows
a new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows is currently shooting in Bucharest to screen on British TV with Mark Gatiss, Matt Lucas and Bob Hoskins in key roles.
www.topix.net /who/mark-gatiss?scoring=r   (590 words)

  
 Telegraph | Entertainment
Mark Gatiss, the gothic family butcher in The League of Gentlemen, is a Doctor Who fan turned scriptwriter.
Gatiss believes that the gothic tradition which surfaces in Doctor Who, Hammer, Quatermass and The League of Gentlemen runs deep through British horror and science fiction.
Gatiss was under no instructions to tone down the humour in the episode he wrote, but stresses that the show is not a comedy.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/03/19/btwho219.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/03/19/ixtop.html   (1002 words)

  
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This is Mark Gatiss, television comedian extraordinaire and proven writer of pastiche in his Troughton romp, The Roundheads.
Mark Gatiss seemed to be trying to go in a few too many directions at once.
Gatiss can't seem to decide if he does want it to be innovative, although he makes some motions in that direction.
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 The League of Gentlemen - Home
Mark Gatiss will guest on Robert Elms' radio show on Monday 6th November at mid-day on BBC Radio London.
Mark Gatiss appears alongside James McAvoy in new comedy Starter For Ten, which is released 10th November.
There's a lot of Mark Gatiss news at the moment, but this one is fantabulous.
www.theleagueofgentlemen.org.uk   (852 words)

  
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It's rare that an author's debut novel is his or her best work; usually, first-time novels tend towards excess, and it takes a book or two before the writer can stem their tide of over-exuberance and focus properly on those themes and ideas which best suit the individual work.
Gatiss gets into the heads of all his characters, even those doomed to die within the first few pages, and shows us in Crook Marsham just how dangerous it can be to live in the past and forget the future.
After that, Gatiss departed for TV and the League of Gentlemen, and his remaining two novels were exercises in nostalgia themselves.
pagefillers.com /dwrg/gatiss.htm   (439 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel: Books: Mark Gatiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The twists and turns keep the reader on the edge of his seat, despite the somewhat predictable ending, but the novel doesn't lose anything for this; just like Bond, the intrigue is not whether he is going to escape and save the day, but how he is going to manage it.
I picked this up with the hope that it would be filled with the same caliber of humour and intelligence as Mark Gatiss' writing for the League of Gentlemen and am afraid that i was a little disappointed.
Mark Gatiss does not pretend that this is a great literary work - it is however fun, witty and ridiculous, with a comic, world-weary flavour of Wilde minus the cruelty.
www.amazon.co.uk /Vesuvius-Club-Lucifer-Box-Novel/dp/0743257057   (1205 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: The Vesuvius Club
The setup sounds familiar...because it is. Mark Gatiss, who took British TV comedy to new depths of depravity as one-fourth of The League of Gentlemen, and has written several Doctor Who novels (not to mention an episode of the upcoming new series), is an unabashed genre fan and has never been shy about his influences.
That said, anyone who's aware of Mark Gatiss's own preferences won't be surprised to learn that, presented with a metapohorical rope, Box will cheerfully swing in the other direction as well.
Gatiss does this sort of referential material -- sometimes sly, sometimes blatant, sometimes absolutely shameless -- in a manner I generally find pleasing; ever since The League of Gentlemen gave a sidelong nod to Diamonds are Forever's gay assassins, Mr.
www.splendidezine.com /departments/bookshelf/bookshelf11705.html   (1036 words)

  
 Welcome To Twitch. Spreading the News On Strange Little Films From Around the World.
An interview with Mark Gatiss is always a joy to read, and it's nice to see him talking in such depth about so many subjects.
Mark Gatiss is truly a gentleman as evidenced by this interview; great job, great questions.
Mark said it was going to be on Team America as well but it doesn't look like it.
www.twitchfilm.net /archives/2005/01/mark_gatiss_spe.html   (8481 words)

  
 Interview:- Mark Gatiss on Nebulous, The Quatermass Experiment and more (HH : The UNofficial Hammer Films Site)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I've been looking to interview Mark for a year now, and had originally hoped to catch him when the League were filming in Dublin.
As the clock strikes three, I dial the number I have been given for Mark's agent, only to find myself speaking to an answer machine, as the woman in question is off today.
Note on the interview format:- In a bid to preserve the flavour of the interview, this is presented as a fairly straight transcript, reproducing most of the conversation as it was.
www.avalard.com /interMG.htm   (6587 words)

  
 Doctor Who Last of the Gaderene by Mark Gatiss
For many years before Mark Gatiss gained some notoriety as a member of BBC2's cult comedy, The League of Gentlemen, he was a Doctor Who novelist of some note (and he's also the last actor to have played the Doctor on TV).
Gatiss even manages to slip in the word 'chitinous' every now and then, revealing the impact that Doctor Who had on the vocabulary of a whole generation (although he wisely avoids forcing Pertwee to say it).
His similes try to be as beautiful as a rose, but turn out to be just as thorny: "An eerie phosphorescence hovered over the now-quiet marshes like the skirts of a ghostly woman" is one such example.
www.authortrek.com /gaderene.html   (428 words)

  
 Mark Gatiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Mark Gatiss is an British actor and writer.
He is a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen.
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 Amazon.com: St. Anthony's Fire (New Doctor Who Adventures): Books: Mark Gatiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gatiss goes to a lot of trouble to describe how physically alien these creatures are, and the descriptions of these reptilian people go a long way towards redeeming the book.
But the visual aspects to their alienness are as far as the book develops them, as the way these creatures talk and act make them human for all intents and purposes.
It almost feels as though Gatiss had finished writing the novel with humans in the lead role, but then went back and made a few cursory changes to the narrative in order to make the monsters seem otherworldly.
www.amazon.com /St-Anthonys-Fire-Doctor-Adventures/dp/0426204239   (1193 words)

  
 The Vesuvius Club-- book review
Author Mark Gatiss peppers his narrative with eccentric Edwardian characters, "whey faced poets, frayed-cuffed artists; all the splendid flotsam of bohemian London life." Lucifer is equally at home in London's Imperial grandeur and the underworld of crazed vice that seethes beneath.
Gatiss deliciously portrays a society roiling with pimps, tarts and harlots, where Edwardian sexual ambiguity reigns supreme.
Gatiss also has an impressive command of idiom, capturing the sycophantic nature of the era in all its self-congratulatory grandeur.
www.curledup.com /vesuvius.htm   (565 words)

  
 Mark Gatiss - Definition, explanation
Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham) is a British actor and writer.
Much of his writing has been devoted to the series, including the BBV video spin-off series P.R.O.B.E, four novels, two Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish Productions and, fulfilling a lifelong dream, the episode The Unquiet Dead for the new series, aired on April 9, 2005.
(The pseudonym is an anagram of "Mark Gatiss", a nod to the Master who often used anagrams or translations of his title as false names.)
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/ma/mark_gatiss.php   (481 words)

  
 QI: Mark Gatiss, Sean Lock, Linda Smith - TV.com
Stephen Fry and Alan Davies are joined by Mark Gatiss, Sean Lock and Linda Smith to discuss some Quite Interesting topics centred around the world of music.
The first human invention to break the sound barrier was the whip - the earliest model of which is 7000 years old.
Tell the world what you think of Mark Gatiss, Sean Lock, Linda Smith, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /qi/mark-gatiss-sean-lock-linda-smith/episode/565488/summary.html   (283 words)

  
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