McNeice as Vladimir Harkonnen in the Sci-Fi Channel's Dune miniseries

Ian McNeice (born October 2, 1950 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK) is an internationally known English television and movie actor. Download high resolution version (486x739, 46 KB)Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, a still from the Dune miniseries. ... Download high resolution version (486x739, 46 KB)Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, a still from the Dune miniseries. ... Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, portrayed by Ian McNeice in the Sci-Fi Channels Dune miniseries Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the science fiction series Dune. ... Sci Fi (sometimes rendered Sci-Fi when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... Frank Herberts Dune was a three-part miniseries produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, a cable television channel. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Basingstoke railway station, as seen from Churchill Way. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

His acting training started in the Taunton School in Somerset. This was followed up with 2 years at the Salisbury Playhouse. The next few years were spent in theatre including a 4 year career with The Royal Shakespeare Company, and a production of Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway. Taunton School is an independent school in Taunton, Somerset, England. ... Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ... The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company, one of the most influential in the country. ... The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, (or Nicholas Nickleby for short) is a comic novel of Charles Dickens. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

His television breakthrough was as Harcourt in the award wining series Edge of Darkness. He went on the appear in the 2000 television mini-series adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune as the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen – a role he later reprised for the 2003 sequel Children of Dune. Most recently, television viewers can see him in the memorable, if minor, role of the Forum crier in the joint HBO/BBC production Rome. Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Frank Herberts Dune was a three-part miniseries based on the Dune novel by Frank Herbert. ... Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, portrayed by Ian McNeice in the Sci-Fi Channels Dune miniseries Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the science fiction series Dune. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Children of Dune was the sequel to the 2000 Dune miniseries produced by the United States Sci Fi channel. ... This page is about characters from the television series Rome, produced as a joint project of HBO and the BBC. You may wish to refer to the index of the shows Characters and Cast as well. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest public broadcasting corporation in the world. ... Rome is a critically acclaimed historical drama, produced in Italy for television by HBO (USA), BBC (UK) and RAI (Italy). ...

McNeice has also appeared in a number of films, including the 1994 science fiction movie No Escape, and the British film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995). His breakthrough into American films occurred when he played opposite Jim Carrey as Fulton Greenwall in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). He played Nazi Gerhard Klopfer in the BBC/HBO TV movie Conspiracy (film), dramatising the Wannsee Conference. Since then he has gone on to do other, more recent, films such as Around the World in 80 Days (2004), and the 2005 drama/supernatural thriller White Noise. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, an archetypal science fiction film. ... No Escape is a 1994 action / Science fiction film starring Ray Liotta as a military prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannabalistic prisoners. ... The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant (Reginald Anson), Ian McNeice (George Garrad), Tara Fitzgerald (Betty), Colm Meaney (Morgan the Goat) and Kenneth Griffith (Reverend Robert Jones). The movie... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket,Ontario), better known as Jim Carrey, is a Canadian-American comedian and film actor. ... Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) is a movie made as a sequel to Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (1994). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gerhard Klopfer (1905 - 1987) was an official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the (Nazi) Party Chancellery. ... Look up Conspiracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Conspiracy, as a legal term, is an agreement of two or more people either to commit a crime or to achieve a lawful end by unlawful means: see conspiracy (crime), and conspiracy (civil). ... The Wannsee Villa, location of the Wannsee Conference, is now a Holocaust museum. ... Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 film based on Jules Vernes Around the World in Eighty Days. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ... White Noise is a 2005 drama/supernatural thriller film, directed by Geoffrey Sax and produced by Brightlight Pictures. ...

He has also applied his distinctive voice and accent to voice acting roles, such as the Vogon character Kwaltz – director of the Vogon Constructor Fleet – in the 2005 film adaptation of Douglas Adams' multi-format creation The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, a Vogon from the BBC television series. ... There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ... The Vogon Constructor Fleet is the fleet of alien spaceships in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that demolishes the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, 5 minutes before the 10 million year program to calculate the Ultimate Question is finished. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ... Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...

External links

• Ian McNeice at the Internet Movie Database