Richard Ellef Ayoade is an English actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter. He is best known for his role as the socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance, and as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. He has directed two feature films – Submarine andThe Double – as well as various music videos for bands including Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kasabian.
Ayoade has often worked alongside Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher in shows such as The Mighty BooshandNathan Barley. He was a team captain on panel show Was It Something I Said?. Ayoade presents the factual shows Gadget Man and its spin-off Travel Man, and the revival of The Crystal Maze.
Be it carefully constructed memoir of the soul, or heart wrenching adoration for the dearly beloved or a few words of impatient love, Handwritten letters have a flair so warm and elegant that no text messages can ever match.
Films in Frame - Carol, Perks of being a Wallflower, Dead Poet’s Society, Submarine, The Double, Hannibal (Hannibal’s letter to Will in the hospital), Spellbound, Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire, Call me by your name (Oliver’s reply to Elio’s letter -enclosed here- Please don’t avoid me. It kills me. Can’t stand thinking you hate me. Your silence is killing me. I’d sooner die than know you hate me. I am such a pussy. Way over the top. Can’t stand the silence. Need to speak to you.)
PS: It’s a shame Tumblr just allows ten images per post.
Well, not really. I’ve been meaning to draw him since my Pinterest feed had done a great job, flooded my feed with his pictures (I don’t even remember which Ayoade’s picture that I saved to my board), but it made me realized that Ayoade is one of the best-dressed men.
Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson
“I don’t make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you’ve helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you’re struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it’s up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.”
