Turing movie among biopics galore at Toronto film festival

2014/09/10 00:42:19 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and war hero Alan Turing on Tuesday led a colorful and moving array of biopics making their debut at the Toronto film festival this week. Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician and pioneer of computer sciences who broke Nazi codes for the British military during the Second World War, helping to shorten the war. In December 2013, he was awarded a posthumous pardon by Queen Elizabeth II following a long campaign by supporters. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum & #039;s & quot;The Immitation Game, & quot; about Turing & #039;s work at code and cypher centre Bletchley Park, was released alongside a flurry of film portrayals of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, The Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and notorious Colombian cocaine trafficker Pablo Escobar that capped off the year of the biographical movie.
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