Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".

Cast (41)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Alan Moloney

Self - Producer

Joe Mulholland

Self - Executive Producer (RTE)

Stephen Brennan

Self - Lucky ("Waiting for Godot")

John Crowley

Self - Director ("Come and Go")

Paola Dionisotti

Self - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)

Atom Egoyan

Self - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Sean Foley

Self - Man ("Act Without Words I")

Michael Gambon

Self - Hamm (archive footage)

John Gielgud

Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

E

Enda Hughes

Self - Director ("Act Without Words II")

John Hurt

Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Jeremy Irons

Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

Neil Jordan

Self - Director ("Not I")

G

Garrett Keogh

Self - Narrator (voice)

Pat Kinevane

Self (archive footage)

P

Pearse Lehane

Self - Interviewer

Gary Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Self - Director ("Waiting for Godot")

Rosaleen Linehan

Self - From "Happy Days"(archive footage)

M

Marcello Magni

Self (archive footage)

David Mamet

Self - Director ("Catastrophe")

Anna Massey

Self - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)

Sean McGinley

Self (archive footage)

Barry McGovern

Self - Vladimir ("Waiting for Godot")

T

Tom McGurk

Self - Journalist

Conor McPherson

Self - Director ("Endgame")

Anthony Minghella

Self - Director ("Play")

Julianne Moore

Self - From "Not I"(archive footage)

Johnny Murphy

Self (archive footage)

D

Damien O'Donnell

Self - Director ("What Where")

Siân Phillips

Self - Ru (archive footage)

Rebecca Pidgeon

Self - From "Catastrophe" (archive footage)

Harold Pinter

Self

Alan Rickman

Self - M

Patricia Rozema

Self - Director ("Happy Days")

Kristin Scott Thomas

Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")

Alan Stanford

Self - From "Waiting for Godot" (archive footage)

Juliet Stevenson

Self - W2 (From "Play")

Charles Sturridge

Self - Director ("Ohio Impromptu")

David Thewlis

Self - Clov (archive footage)

Michael Colgan

Self - Producer

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