Byrne About Byrne (1988)
Overview
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Cast
John Byrne
Self/Mobile Library Driver
Robbie Coltrane
Self/Detective
Robert Carlyle
Spanky Farrell
Alastair Galbraith
Gunman
Juliet Cadzow
Mother
Bill Paterson
Father/F.S. McDade
Katy Murphy
Usherette/Backing Vocals
Ralph Riach
Collector
Kate Donnelly
Bride
Richard Wilson
Eddie ClockertyRecommendations
Dalíland
I Am Heath Ledger
Hardball
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Bank of Dave
Everybody’s Everything
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
The Girl in the Book
Becoming Jane
All Eyez on Me
Belfast
Frank
Thunderstruck
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
Criminal
Stutz
Taking Care of Business
Come See Me in the Good Light
Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray