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Rafe Spall to star as ghost hunter Harry Price on ITV Rafe Spall to star as ghost hunter Harry Price on ITV
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Rafe Spall will be chasing spooks in his new TV role as Harry Price: Ghost Hunter.Rafe Spall will be chasing spooks in his new TV role as Harry Price: Ghost Hunter.
The Life Of Pi actor has signed up to star in the feature length drama for ITV about a fraudster medium and ghost hunter who is given a chance to turn his life around by taking on a new case.The Life Of Pi actor has signed up to star in the feature length drama for ITV about a fraudster medium and ghost hunter who is given a chance to turn his life around by taking on a new case.
The period film, set in the 1920s, is based on the novel The Ghost Hunters by Neil Spring and will be made by Bentley Productions.The period film, set in the 1920s, is based on the novel The Ghost Hunters by Neil Spring and will be made by Bentley Productions.
Fact and fiction will be combined to tell the story of Price, a famous British ghost hunter and sceptic.Fact and fiction will be combined to tell the story of Price, a famous British ghost hunter and sceptic.
Spall said: “I’m delighted to be portraying Harry Price for ITV. It’s a fantastic piece of history that has mass appeal and I can’t wait to start filming.”Spall said: “I’m delighted to be portraying Harry Price for ITV. It’s a fantastic piece of history that has mass appeal and I can’t wait to start filming.”
He will be joined by Downton Abbey’s Cara Theobold as maid Sarah Grey, who helps Harry with his investigation into the supposed haunting of the home of a local MP.He will be joined by Downton Abbey’s Cara Theobold as maid Sarah Grey, who helps Harry with his investigation into the supposed haunting of the home of a local MP.
Price was a psychic researcher who investigated paranormal phenomena and worked to expose fake spiritualists. Filming is about to begin in London. Spring told MediaGuardian that he had written The Ghost Hunters with a television series in mind and that Spall was ideal to play Price.
The writer – who has a new novel out soon called The Watchers, about UFO sightings during the cold war – said: “It is a tremendous honour to know that one of the most talented actors of his generation is about to play such a complex and flawed character as Harry Price.
“The man I envisaged in The Ghost Hunters is about to live again. I can only hope audiences are as enthralled by him as I was.”
Price was a psychic researcher who investigated paranormal phenomena and worked to expose fake spiritualists.