Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as the television serial "Brideshead Revisited". Although he aspires to become an artist, middle-class Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain, strongly disapproves of his lifestyle, especially his heavy drinking. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his nanny, Charles is
Jack Ryder (actor) the Lyceum Theatre Sheffield. In 2014 he directed his second short film "DOG" and in July 2015 directed his first red button episode of "Casualty" for the BBC. Ryder continues his relationship with "The Full Monty" as the director of the new touring production starring Gary Lucy which tours the UK through the autumn of 2015 through in to 2017. Ryder returned to acting and played a new character Gareth in Kay Mellors' BBC drama "In the Club" which aired in May 2016. Ryder becomes in 2017 the assistant director to Tim Firth on his and Gary Barlow's new musical