2017 Angel Film Awards - Monaco International Film Festival angel awards

Angel Film Awards President of Jury GUY SINER

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL ACTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER


GUY SINER is known the world over for his portrayal of Lieutenant Gruber, one of the original and enduring characters of over 90 episodes of ’Allo ’Allo! which is one of the most successful comedy series the B.B.C. has ever produced and is still shown in more than 80 countries.

Guy was born in Manhattan to an American father and an English mother, educated in England and trained for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy in London where he won the Rodney Millington Award for his performance as The Emcee in Cabaret. In a career of some 30 years he has become a household name in the U.K. both in theatre and television.

Guy made his first London appearance in the highly acclaimed Cowardy Custard at the Mermaid Theatre. Other London credits include Off the Peg, Nickleby and Me, Toad of Toad Hall, The Frogs, Wealth, The Biograph Girl and Don’t Dress for Dinner. He has also appeared several times in cabaret at The Ritz. He has worked with many of the leading English repertory companies including Coventry, Leicester, Brighton, Windsor, Oxford and The Bristol Old Vic, and did six major tours with Jonathan Lynn’s Cambridge Theatre Company in a repertoire mainly of the classics including The Master Builder, The Relapse, An Inspector Calls and Uncle Vanya. He twice toured Australia with the stage show of ’Allo ’Allo which also enjoyed a record-breaking U.K. tour and long West End runs both at the Prince of Wales and the London Palladium.

Television work in London includes I Claudius, Dr. Who, Life at Stake, Z Cars, Softly Softly, The Secret Army, You Rang M’Lord?, The Brittas Empire, Doctors and of course ’Allo ’Allo! In LA: Seinfeld, Martial Law, Diagnosis Murder (with Dick van Dyke), Zoe, Babylon 5, When Billie Beat Bobbie (with Holly Hunter and Goldie Hawn), That’s My Bush (with the writers of South Park), The Agency and Startrek: Enterprise.

Films include The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, Great Harry and Jane, Lost Highway (written and directed by David Lynch), Leprechaun 4, Bug, Return to the Secret Garden, The Second Front (with Todd Field), Megiddo (with Michael York), Vlad (with Billy Zane), Provoked,The Resurrectionist (winner of the Cornwall Film Festival) and Pirates of the Caribbean (with Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush), and Ironclad (with Paul Giamatti and Derek Jacobi).

In recent years Guy has spent much of his time working in the film industry in London and Los Angeles but is now based in London where he juggles two careers - actor and writer/producer and with his producing partner David Roden he has a new British film in development.

You can find out more about his work on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801838/