For many of Irish actor Kenneth Branagh's fans, the quintessential Branagh role is his youthfully brash but searingly inspirational King Henry V in the 1989 movie adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Well, move over, Hank. Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander is about to do what the armies of France could not.
Beginning Sunday night (Oct. 3) on PBS, Wallander and Branagh return to "Masterpiece Mystery" for three new episodes of the series that first aired in May 2009. Based on Swede Henning Mankell's popular crime novels, "Wallander II" is destined to stamp Branagh's face on Kurt Wallander just as indelibly as the late John Thaw inhabited Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and David Suchet has become Hercule Poirot.
Branagh was nominated for an Emmy in 2010 for his portrayal of Wallander, a policeman in the historic Swedish seaside town of Ystad. Wallander is a bit of a sad case: His wife has left him,...
Beginning Sunday night (Oct. 3) on PBS, Wallander and Branagh return to "Masterpiece Mystery" for three new episodes of the series that first aired in May 2009. Based on Swede Henning Mankell's popular crime novels, "Wallander II" is destined to stamp Branagh's face on Kurt Wallander just as indelibly as the late John Thaw inhabited Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and David Suchet has become Hercule Poirot.
Branagh was nominated for an Emmy in 2010 for his portrayal of Wallander, a policeman in the historic Swedish seaside town of Ystad. Wallander is a bit of a sad case: His wife has left him,...
- 10/1/2010
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