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) in a recurring role on Five's "Family Affairs" which he pulled out of when he learned that the series was soon to be axed. In 2004, he played a role in the ITV crime drama "" and appeared in a play broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2006, Ryder starred in the British film "Popcorn" which was released in the spring of 2007. Ryder was due to become a regular character in the then-new ITV1 daytime series "The Royal Today", a contemporary spin-off of "The Royal", but he subsequently withdrew from playing the role. In 2007, aged 26, Ryder appeared