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2 June 2007
The website for Silksoundbooks is now officially open and you can buy
The Dupin Mysteries By Edgar Allan Poe read by Bill Nighy (recorded while being in New York doing The Vertical Hour!).
Bill Nighy is one of the share holders of Silksoundbooks and also ambassador for the project. The website contains a long list of [...]
29 May 2007
Interesting interview with Bill Nighy about, of course, Pirates but it also mentions that Bill is flying to Tanzania to lobby the G8 conference.
In working with Curtis, who wrote “The Girl in the Café” in part to bring attention to the problems of world poverty, Nighy too has been moved to “help a bit.” Over [...]
21 May 2007
A short interview with Bill Nighy about Davy Jones at movieweb.
Bill Nighy also reveals what he is currently working on:
The thing I’ve mostly been involved in lately is a project that is basically my project, which is this thing where I want to put great books on your iPod, read by great people. So basically, [...]
25 April 2007
Harper’s Bazaar has a nice interview with and even nicer pictures of Bill Nighy in May’s edition.
Here is a Nighy classic from that interview:
“I’m not famous for holiday-making. I don’t really understand it,” he says. “Apparently, it is now compulsory to wear shorts – and yet there are only three people in the world who [...]
28 March 2007
Bill Nighy has donated his original Pirates of the Carribean : Dead Men’s Chest script to support the High Tide festival and you can now bid on it on Ebay here..
The script is filled with comments and doodles from Bill, and an absolute collectors item. But, before you run over there, know that it is [...]
16 February 2007
This month’s Vanity Fair has an extra film noir feature with 14 fantastic photo’s taken by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The 14 photo’s all feature top actors, from Robert the Niro to Jack Nicholson, Edward Norton, Peter O’Toole, Sylvester Stalone, Bruce Willis, Julliane Moore, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, and of course Bill Nighy.
Bill Nighy’s shot is [...]
12 December 2006
Happy Birthday to:
Lawrence, Billy, Davy, Viktor, Alan, Whitey, Richard, Bernard, Slartibartfast, Dylan, Philip, Mortmain, Robin, Louis, Roger, Dan, Ray, Peter, Mr. Johnson, Edward, Tristan, Jeremy, Julian, Barton, Tiger, Gideon, Colonel Osborne, Cameron, Stamfordham, Mr. McGill, Jeffrey, Lockwood, Lord Sandwich, Ian, Will, Tom, Oliver, John, Hugh, Mark, Sam, Cecil, Ronald, Helmut, Lee, Oates, Conor, Vincent, Nick, [...]
9 September 2006
Bill Nighy is expected to perform at the John Betjeman Gala, together with a long list of other stars of film and the theatre. The Gala will be held in the Prince of Wales theatre in London.
The cast includes Nick Cave, Jonathan Cecil, Ronnie Corbett, Kenneth Cranham, Sinead Cussack, Joanna David, Edward Fox, Stephen [...]
21 July 2006
It is no secret that Bill Nighy loves his cup of Yorkshire tea.
So it’s not a bad choice of Yorkshire Tea to have Bill Nighy narrating TV ads for Yorkshire Tea to encourage consumers to think again about the quality of the brew they drink.
All the ads, which are on national UK television from [...]
21 June 2006
Bill Nighy has been a celebrity ambassador for the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) for a couple of years now. He actually started with that after working on The Lost Prince (which is about a boy having epilepsy).
The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) is organizing a raffle to raise money. And the price being the [...]
9 June 2006
BBC7 is treating us with more Bill Nighy goodies.
Kathleen Turner continues in the role of Sara Paretsky’s V.I Warshawski. From Tuesday you can hear “Killing Orders” on BBC 7.
Vic isn’t pleased when her Aunt Rosa asks for help because she knows her Aunt hates her – and the feeling is mutual. Well, family’s [...]
2 June 2006
Time to turn your radio on, and tune in on BBC7 the next week, from Monday to Thursday at 13.00. Bill is only in the episode of Monday though (thanks Addy).
From BBC7:
“Now, if you like nothing more than sitting down to your lunch and thinking about death and diseases, then you’re in luck. This week [...]
15 May 2006
From today, and the rest of the week, you can hear Bill Nighy in the Afternoon radio play on Radio 4 BBC (internet radio).
The play is called Cemetery Confessions
Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris was opened 200 years ago this month, and to mark the anniversary, five of its most illustrious residents make their confessions to [...]
23 February 2006
Bill Nighy is also narrating the new BBC 2 Docudrama The Armstrongs.
Meet the Armstrongs, the husband and wife business team that make the Borgias look like the Flumps.
Hilarious fly-on-the-wall series about a double-glazing firm run by husband and wife team John and Ann Armstrong, whose stream of priceless quotes make this essential viewing for the [...]
22 February 2006
For the very true Bill Nighy nerds among you : you can hear Bill doing several Vodaphone commercials on Capital Radio London at the moment.Capital Radio can be heard over the internet, so turn on, tune in and cop out – and enjoy that voice.