Hepburn Graham

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 30, 1959 (65 years old)

Hepburn Graham

Known For

Escape From Kampala
1h 30m
Movie 1991

Escape From Kampala

The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".

The Rachel Papers
1h 35m
Movie 1989

The Rachel Papers

Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.

The Firm
1h 10m
Movie 1989

The Firm

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.

Crusoe
1h 31m
Movie 1988

Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Cry Freedom
2h 37m
Movie 1987

Cry Freedom

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

King of the Ghetto
3h 38m
Movie 1986

King of the Ghetto

An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end

Biography

Hepburn Harrison-Graham worked as a professional actor from 1979 to 1991, appearing in a variety of films and TV programmes, including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Cry Freedom, The Firm and EastEnders. His stage work included a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1992 Hepburn began working for BBC radio sport as a junior broadcaster and progressed into becoming an assistant producer. During the formative years of BBC Radio 5 live Hepburn produced a wide range of sports shows including Hoops, an original programme about English basketball.  Sports America, an insight into American sport, and Sunday Sport. During this period he also devised and produced a number of documentaries, most notably Across the White Line a four part series that charted the history of black footballers in England. In 1996 he worked as a  producer at  the Olympic Games in Atlanta  where, among other duties, he produced a critically acclaimed documentary on Martin Luther King. Later that year he became boxing producer, working on many world title fights including Lennox Lewis v Mike Tyson. Hepburn eventually became a programme editor, before being made editor in chief of BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra. He now works as a freelance tutor in sports media, hoping to inspire the next generation of journalists with the art of radio production.

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