It's comedy night at the asylum, folks. And have we got some high-voltage vaudeville for you, the kind that curls your hair and turns your knees to rubber. So here he is, all the way from St. Petersburg, Russia, the man who put the madcap in madness. Put your hands together for the stand-up stylings of Aksentii Poprishchin. No such words of...
''THE KING'S SPEECH,'' in which Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush play a future English king and the eccentric therapist he hires to help him overcome his stammer, might qualify as a buddy movie if their relationship weren't so prickly. Prince Albert, or ''Bertie,'' as his cheeky, would-be miracle worker, Lionel Logue, insists on calling him, is a...
In the first encounter between the duke of York (Colin Firth),known by family members as Bertie, and the unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) we see how Logue, who is impervious to royalty, begins to break down the barriers of class and position that have walled in the future King George VI, who has an acute stammer....
Geoffrey Rush (født 6. juli 1951) er en australsk skuespiller. Han er født i Toowoomba, Queensland, og begyndte sin skuespilkarriere ved Queensland teaterkompani i Brisbane. Han studerede ved universitetet i Queensland, hvor han boede sammen med skuespilleren Mel Gibson.
Rush vandt en Oscar for bedste mandlige hovedrolle i Shine i 1996.
Han har også medvirket i Pirates of the Caribbean-filmene, produceret af Jerry Bruckheimer, hvor han spillede Kaptajn Barbossa.