A Fish Called Wanda - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "A Fish Called Wanda"
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Timing:
1:49 (109 min)
7.205/10
2400
2400
7.34/10
11509
11509
7.5/10
165000
165000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Executive Producer
Steve Abbott
Executive Producer
Writer
Casting
Editor
John Jympson
Editor
Special Effects Supervisor
George Gibbs
Special Effects Supervisor
Art Direction
John Wood
Art Direction
Costume Design
Hazel Pethig
Costume Design
Production Design
Roger Murray-Leach
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Romo Gorrara
Stunt Coordinator
Set Decoration
Stephanie McMillan
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gerry Humphreys
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
John Du Prez
Original Music Composer
Associate Producer
John Comfort
Associate Producer
Second Assistant Director
Melvin Lind
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Alan Hume
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Neil Binney
Camera Operator
Property Master
Bruce Bigg
Property Master
Still Photographer
David James
Still Photographer
Boom Operator
Colin Wood
Boom Operator
Screenplay
Set Designer
David Allday
Set Designer
Assistant Editor
William Webb
Assistant Editor
Location Manager
Nick Daubeny
Location Manager
William Lang
Location Manager
Grip
Jimmy Waters
Grip
Assistant Location Manager
Christopher Knowles
Assistant Location Manager
Story
Makeup Supervisor
Paul Engelen
Makeup Supervisor
Third Assistant Director
David Skynner
Third Assistant Director
Production Accountant
Andy Birmingham
Production Accountant
Gaffer
Bobby Bremner
Gaffer
Music Editor
Peter Holt
Music Editor
Focus Puller
Simon Hume
Focus Puller
Production Assistant
Ralph Kamp
Production Assistant
Liz Lehmans
Production Assistant
Production Coordinator
Janine Modder
Production Coordinator
Best Boy Electric
Bill Thornhill
Best Boy Electric
Assistant Accountant
Yvonne Heeks
Assistant Accountant
Executive Producer's Assistant
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
Executive Producer's Assistant
Sound Recordist
Chris Munro
Sound Recordist
Hairdresser
Barry Richardson
Hairdresser
Standby Property Master
Alfie Smith
Standby Property Master
Construction Manager
Roy Evans
Construction Manager
Property Buyer
Brian Read
Property Buyer
Sound Editor
Jonathan Bates
Sound Editor
Clapper Loader
Graham Hall
Clapper Loader
Wardrobe Master
Ray Usher
Wardrobe Master
Producer's Assistant
Alexandra Stone
Producer's Assistant
Peter Byck
Producer's Assistant
Wardrobe Assistant
Jenny Hawkins
Wardrobe Assistant
Steve Cornish
Wardrobe Assistant
Continuity
Diana Dill
Continuity
What's left behind the scenes
- Trying to win Wanda’s favor, Archie reads her Mikhail Lermontov’s poem “Prayer” in Russian.
- The role of Archie Leach’s daughter is played by John Cleese’s daughter, Cynthia Cleese (credited as Cynthia Caylor).
- Sir Michael Palin's father stuttered, so, while playing Ken, Palin based his performance on childhood memories and knowledge of the subject. Specifically, on the knowledge that people who stutter stutter less when communicating with close people (in the film, these are characters played by Tom Georgeson and Jamie Lee Curtis), but stuttering becomes more pronounced when communicating with those with whom these people are uncomfortable (in the film, this is the character played by Kevin Kline).
- Kevin Kline pleaded with John Cleese (who starred in the film, was an executive producer, and also served as one of the directors and writers) to allow him to speak not in Italian, but in French during the seduction scene with Wanda (played by Jamie Lee Curtis). The reason was that Kline himself knew French. However, Cleese insisted that it had to be only Italian, and nothing else. Kline had already run through all the Italian cheese names he knew, and all the Italian phrases that came to mind, and had already begun belting out “Volare” (an Italian song from the late 1950s), but director Charles Crichton (1910-1999) still wouldn’t say “Cut!”. The actor was worried because, at the time of filming this scene, the film’s producers did not have the rights to the song.
- When this film was released in Danish cinemas in 1989, a man named Ole Bentzen (an otolaryngologist by profession) literally died of laughter while watching the scene in which Kevin Kline’s character stuffs slices of fried potato into Michael Palin’s character’s nostrils. The fact is that he himself had suggested something similar (albeit not as torture, but for amusement) to members of his own family at dinner a few years earlier. Seeing what happened to Palin’s character, he, of course, remembered that incident, and began to laugh so hard that his heart gave out. This story is well known throughout Scandinavia, and immediately after it happened, it almost turned into an urban legend. The deceased’s son confirmed its truth.
- The fish that Kevin Kline’s character ate was made of jelly. The actor claimed that he had offered to eat a real fish, but the filmmakers wouldn’t let him.
- At the end of the film, in the airport, Otto takes a boarding pass from a random passenger played by British television star Stephen Fry.
- John Cleese and Charles Crichton began discussing the idea for this film as early as 1983. The only thing that came to Cleese’s mind at the time was the idea of a stuttering character who needed to tell the others something important. Crichton, for his part, wanted to show on screen a roller skating rink running over a person.
- In the original finale, Otto, played by Kevin Kline, was crushed by a steamroller. During preview screenings in the United States, it turned out that the audience loved this character so much that an additional scene was filmed with him, covered in cement, looking through a porthole at the characters of John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis.
- Trying to win Wanda's favor, Archie reads her Mikhail Lermontov's poem "Prayer" in Russian.
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