Dan's TV Movie - My Boy Jack
Dan's first TV movie, My Boy Jack aired on ITV 1 in November 2007. The movie follows the relationship between Rudyard Kipling and his son Jack - with Dan in the title role. Kipling spent the last twenty years of his life searching to find out what happened to his son John (Jack), who had gone missing during the Battle of Loos in 1915. He had only got into the army because of his father's influence - poor eyesight rendered him medically unfit. Jack was last seen struggling through the carnage, shot in the mouth and weeping. His body was never found. The film is based on a play written by David Haig, who takes the role of Rudyard Kipling.
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Dan's Theatre Works
Equus
Dan made his second stage appearance at London's West End in a play called "Equus" on February 27, 2007. The play will be on US Broadway in late 2008.
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The Play What I Wrote
In November 2002 Dan had a role in the play "The Play What I Wrote" directed by Kenneth Branagh; a production well known for its "surprise guest". Of his stage debut at London's West End, he said, "It was great fun. I had never been on stage before so it was a little scary at first but it certainly gave me the desire to do more on stage."
You can see pictures of Dan in the play at both DanRadcliffe.com and DanRadcliffe.co.uk. Below is a review of the show from Evening Standard.
Harry Potter makes spectacle of himself on West End stage
By Becky Barrow
The Telegraph
November 25, 2002
Daniel Radcliffe, the schoolboy star of the Harry Potter films, made his debut on the West End stage at the weekend.
The 13-year-old actor, who has brought the Harry Potter character to life on screen since winning the role two years ago, was the surprise guest star in The Play What I Wrote, a celebration of the comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Just a few days after the equally diminutive Kylie Minogue occupied the play's regular guest star role dressed as an overweight monk, Daniel performed his own version of the Bring me Sunshine dance at Wyndham's Theatre on Saturday in an oversized dress and glasses.
Repeatedly referred to as Harry Potty by Sean Foley, one of the actors, the audience greeted Daniel with applause and made sure that he left the stage to equally loud appreciation.
At one point, he was laughing so much - helped by jokes such as "Have you had them developed?" after saying he had made a few films - that he was told to calm down.
The audience did not know that Daniel, who is currently starring in the second film about the boy wizard, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was going to make an appearance.
The play tries to keep its regular guest star a secret. Ralph Fiennes was the first ("It's Rafe"; "Well, put some ointment on it"). Other guests have included Ewan McGregor, Denise Van Outen, Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley and Sting. Daniel is not the play's only link to the Harry Potter films. The Play What I Wrote is directed by Kenneth Branagh, the Shakespearean actor, who plays Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, the self-obsessed Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, in the latest film.
Before landing the Harry Potter role, Daniel's acting experience - something which he had wanted to do since the age of five - was a BBC adaptation and a John Boorman film. Daniel played the young David Copperfield in the 1999 television adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, joining a cast which included Bob Hoskins, Dame Maggie Smith and Emilia Fox. After that, he had a small part in the film The Tailor of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. His only other work was to play himself in Comic Relief's Say Pants to Poverty and Short Pants.
The play, which has enjoyed rave reviews, was described as "a loving celebration of comic genius, which is itself touched with comic genius" by The Telegraph's theatre critic, Charles Spencer. At the weekend, it was helped by a touch of Harry Potter magic.