Male members were also part of the stunt team in the Feature Film; Faintheart, under the fight direction of Richard Ryan, (FD: Troy, Stardust, The Dark Knight). The film was produced by Vertigo Films & Film4.
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In 2007, Lester appeared as a contestant on The Weakest Link, making it to the final round. He also played the role of Tim in 2008 film Faintheart and appeared in a Confused.com advertisement later that year. At the time of making the advert, he had around 27,000 subscribers.
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She has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105. After her death, her medieval story: Sir Faintheart was published in 2015, and there are still at least two unpublished Regency romances pending publication, including The Runaway. Today many of her old novels are being reedited.
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Lester is from Rawtenstall in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. He has an older brother, Martyn. Before he made vlogs and radio presenting his full-time profession, Lester worked as a dog walker, as a car washer, did work experience at a veterinary clinic, worked at WHSmith, and played Tim in Faintheart. He and Martyn attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School.
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His Film Music Supervisor credits include: South West Nine, The Football Factory, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Sparkle, The Escapist, The Business, London to Brighton, Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, Heroes and Villains, Faintheart, Bronson, Pusher II, WAZ, The Children, Summer, The Firm, and Monsters. He has recently worked on 3D dance movie StreetDance, writing and recording "Live for the Moment" with Pixie Lott for its soundtrack.
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The jury consisted of Rebecca Mark-Lawson (UK Film Council), James Mullighan (Shooting People), Deputy Kevin Lewis, and John Davey (Spearpoint Ltd). The 2008 Festival closed with a screening of British comedy feature Faintheart, directed by Vito Rocco and starring Eddie Marsan, Jessica Hynes and Ewen Bremner, set amongst the world of Viking battle re-enactment societies. The screening took place at Mount Orgueil Castle, and was preceded by a drinks reception on the Castle battlements with a particularly strong serving of local cider.
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The Katie Melua Collection is a compilation album by Georgian-born British singer and songwriter Katie Melua. The album is a two disc set with 17 songs, three previously unreleased, and a DVD that was filmed in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The album includes the singles "When You Taught Me How to Dance" from the film Miss Potter, "What a Wonderful World" with a recording of Eva Cassidy, and three new songs: "Toy Collection" (written by Melua for the film Faintheart), "Two Bare Feet", and "Somewhere in the Same Hotel".
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In 2009, Gallagher starred alongside a well-known cast on the MySpace/Vertigo Films production Faintheart and starred in the BBC Three comedy TV series Pramface in 2012. On television, she played the mother of young Nick in the BBC drama Nick Nickleby. She played Trisha Meehan in The Field of Blood and Ada Mason in Agatha Christie's Poirot Series 10 episode "The Mystery of the Blue Train". An image of Gallagher, in character as Bernie McGloughlin in the film The Commitments, was featured on an Irish postage stamp as part of the Ireland 1996: Irish Cinema Centenary series issued by An Post.
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He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. His film roles include the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol (1999) opposite Patrick Stewart, Chief Gentleman in The Prince and the Pauper (2000), and Captain Hook in Finding Neverland (2004), as well as roles in The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), Entrapment (1999), Faintheart (2008), Still Life (2013), and the 1999 TV movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
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The Premiere Fund invested £8 million of Lottery funding per year into mainstream, commercially driven films encouraging the involvement of British creative talent in a range of films to attract international audiences. Funded films included Mike Leigh's award- winning Happy-Go-Lucky; Oliver Gerald McMorrow’s Franklyn; Christopher Smith's Triangle; Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray; Stephen Frears's Cheri; Bob Weide's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People; Anand Tucker's And When Did You Last See Your Father?; Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited; Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's St Trinian's; Rupert Wyatt’s The Escapist; Roger Michell's Venus; Vito Rocco’s Faintheart; and Gabor Csupo's The Secret of Moonacre. The Office of the British Film Commissioner worked to ensure that the UK remained an attractive production base for international films.
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