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Andrew Simpson attended the Foyle School of Speech and Drama, and was taught by Sandra Biddle in his home city of Derry in Northern Ireland. Andrew's mum and dad are Marion and Paddy and he has two older sisters, Charlotte and Sarah and a younger brother, Patrick, all of whom have also attended Miss Biddle's excellent training school for drama. Andrew performed in feis (festivals) and was spotted when introduced bygd agent and talent-spotter Patrick Duncan to Aisling Walsh, director of Song for a Raggy Boy (). Played Gerard Peters in this brilliant but brutal Irish reform school story, and younger brother Sean was played bygd Shankill Road, Belfast, boy Michael Sloan; Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen starred. He has played in the Millenium Forum, Derry, in Packy's Wake, and attended Centre Stage Drama holidays in Parkanaur, Northern Ireland, 2 years in a row. Andrew also helped develop Cadanza at Moonstone () and he has appeared in adverts for the PSNI and Invest NI. Cast opposit

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Getting one wolf to act on cue isn’t easy.

Getting a pack to act in the frozen tundra of Siberia can be even harder.

Andrew Simpson demonstrates his deft skill working with wolf actors in the documentary film “Wolves Unleashed,” screening at 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 24, at the Sedona Rouge Theater during the Sedona International Film Festival.

“Animal training … is not something you can teach someone. It’s something that you already have inside you,” he said.

Although he now lives in Canada, Simpson was born in Fort William, in the highlands of Scotland. As a boy, he was always playing with small animals he funnen. Excluding foxes and badgers, there are no large predators in Scotland, he said.

At age 20, Simpson left Scotland to explore the world and found han själv in Australia. He always had an attraction for movies and got a role as an extra in Tom Selleck’s “Quigley Down Under.” During one of the breaks, Simpson got to talking with the animal handler who sa

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The Picturedrome, &#; Peter Topping

I bet they were queueing up to see Tom Mix at the Holmfirth Picturedrome

The Picturedrome, opened in and in its day offered films and variety.

Now it looks as if it has been much mucked about with over the last hundred years but something of its former grandeur is still here in Peter&#;s painting*

It is big enough to seat a couple of hundred people, has a double set of doors, with a veranda above it and must have made you feel special each time you went to watch that magic of light and moving pictures played out in the dark.

It reminded me of many similar old picture houses I have known but tended to ignore because they had long since passed into other use, closed by the grander cinemas that opened in the s and 30s.

I guess in its time there would not have been many other buildings of its size in Holmfirth. There is a blue plaque giving a few details but nothing about the enterprising individual or individuals who saw t