Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson

Born: February 5, 1948
Died: December 30, 2023
in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson, OBE was an English actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in In The Bedroom and Michael Clayton. In 2009, he won The Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award for best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for John Adams.

Movies for Tom Wilkinson...

Title: The Full Monty
Character: Gerald Arthur Cooper
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: TV
Taking place 25 years after the original British smash hit, the same band of brothers navigate the post-industrial city of Sheffield and society's crumbling healthcare, education, and employment sectors.
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SAS: Red Notice
Title: SAS: Red Notice
Character: William Lewis
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: Movie
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.
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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
Title: Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
Character: Dr. Bird (Voice)
Released: January 12, 2021
Type: Movie
In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression involve seeking advice from Dr. Bird - a giant imaginary pigeon therapist.
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Title: Belgravia
Character: Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: TV
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.
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Burden
Title: Burden
Character: Tom Griffin
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
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Title: Watership Down
Character: Threarah (voice)
Released: December 22, 2018
Type: TV
Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Title: Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Character: Leslie
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Title: The Catcher Was a Spy
Character: Paul Scherrer
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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The Happy Prince
Title: The Happy Prince
Character: Father Dunne
Released: April 12, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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The Titan
Title: The Titan
Character: Prof. Martin Collingwood
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
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This Beautiful Fantastic
Title: This Beautiful Fantastic
Character: Alfie Stevenson
Released: October 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.
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Denial
Title: Denial
Character: Richard Rampton
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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Snowden
Title: Snowden
Character: Ewen MacAskill
Released: September 15, 2016
Type: Movie
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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The Choice
Title: The Choice
Character: Dr. Shep
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
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Jenny's Wedding
Title: Jenny's Wedding
Character: Eddie
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.
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Little Boy
Title: Little Boy
Character: Fr. Oliver
Released: April 23, 2015
Type: Movie
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
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Bone in the Throat
Title: Bone in the Throat
Character: Charlie
Released: March 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Timothy McWinters
Released: March 5, 2015
Type: Movie
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
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Selma
Title: Selma
Character: President Lyndon B. Johnson
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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Felony
Title: Felony
Character: Detective Carl Summer
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one will try to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it. How far will these men go to disguise and unravel the truth?
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Good People
Title: Good People
Character: DI John Halden
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Author
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Title: The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: Movie
This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward the Rises finale and the culmination of nearly a decade of creative blood, sweat and tears. Candid, thoughtful and extensive, and comprised of revealing behind-the-scenes footage, countless interviews, audition tapes (with Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy doning the cape and cowl), and a narrative grip and momentum all its own, it leaves no stone unturned.
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The Lone Ranger
Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Cole
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: Lord Mansfield
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
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The Samaritan
Title: The Samaritan
Character: Xavier
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Title: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Character: Graham Dashwood
Released: February 23, 2012
Type: Movie
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
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WWII in 3D
Title: WWII in 3D
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 24, 2012
Type: Movie
For the first time, you will see dramatic moments of WWII that were captured in 3D with stereographs and then shuttered away in secret archives and attics, until now. This stunning collection of color 3D photos includes Allied reconnaissance photos, a trove of images that documents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and photos secretly taken by a civilian in occupied France. WWII IN 3D also features an actual 3D motion picture film shot by the Nazis in 1943 and creates a fully immersive, three dimensional portrait of history's largest and bloodiest conflict.
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Space Junk 3D
Title: Space Junk 3D
Character: Narrator
Released: January 14, 2012
Type: Movie
50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that threatens the safety of earth’s orbits. SPACE JUNK is a visually explosive journey of discovery that weighs the solutions aimed at restoring our planet’s orbits. Experience mind-boggling collisions, both natural and man-made. Soar for the stunning depths of Meteor Crater to an unprecedented view of our increasingly crowded orbits – 22,000 miles above earth. Join us as foremost expert Don Kessler, the “Father of Space Junk,” guides us through the challenges we face in protecting them, forging a new age of space discovery.
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The Gruffalo's Child
Title: The Gruffalo's Child
Character: The Fox (voice)
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Title: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Character: IMF Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
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The Conspirator
Title: The Conspirator
Character: Reverdy Johnson
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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Title: The Kennedys
Character: Joe Kennedy Sr.
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: TV
The Kennedys is an Emmy-winning Canadian-American television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedy family, including key triumphs and tragedies it has experienced. It stars Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Barry Pepper and Tom Wilkinson among others, and is directed by Jon Cassar. The series premiered in the United States in April 2011 on ReelzChannel and on History Television in Canada.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: James Reid
Released: January 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Dr. Knox
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Jackboots on Whitehall
Title: Jackboots on Whitehall
Character: Goebbels (voice)
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
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The Debt
Title: The Debt
Character: Stefan Gold
Released: September 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
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The Ghost Writer
Title: The Ghost Writer
Character: Paul Emmett
Released: February 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
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The Gruffalo
Title: The Gruffalo
Character: Fox (voice)
Released: December 25, 2009
Type: Movie
The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?
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44 Inch Chest
Title: 44 Inch Chest
Character: Archie
Released: October 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
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Duplicity
Title: Duplicity
Character: Howard Tully
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.
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Valkyrie
Title: Valkyrie
Character: Friedrich Fromm
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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A Number
Title: A Number
Character: Salter
Released: September 10, 2008
Type: Movie
A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
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RocknRolla
Title: RocknRolla
Character: Lenny Cole
Released: September 4, 2008
Type: Movie
When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.
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Recount
Title: Recount
Character: James Baker
Released: May 25, 2008
Type: Movie
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
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Title: John Adams
Character: Benjamin Franklin
Released: March 16, 2008
Type: TV
Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
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Michael Clayton
Title: Michael Clayton
Character: Arthur Edens
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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Dedication
Title: Dedication
Character: Rudy Holt
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
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Cassandra's Dream
Title: Cassandra's Dream
Character: Howard
Released: June 18, 2007
Type: Movie
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
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The Last Kiss
Title: The Last Kiss
Character: Stephen
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
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The Night of the White Pants
Title: The Night of the White Pants
Character: Max Hagan
Released: April 27, 2006
Type: Movie
The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend.
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Ripley Under Ground
Title: Ripley Under Ground
Character: John Webster
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
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Separate Lies
Title: Separate Lies
Character: James Manning
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Title: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Character: Father Moore
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
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Batman Begins
Title: Batman Begins
Character: Carmine "The Roman" Falcone
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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Piccadilly Jim
Title: Piccadilly Jim
Character: Bingley Crocker
Released: November 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
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A Good Woman
Title: A Good Woman
Character: Tuppy
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."
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Stage Beauty
Title: Stage Beauty
Character: Betterton
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Character: Dr. Howard Mierzwiak
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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If Only
Title: If Only
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: Movie
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Character: Pieter Van Ruijven
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
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Normal
Title: Normal
Character: Roy 'Ruth' Applewood
Released: January 21, 2003
Type: Movie
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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An Angel for May
Title: An Angel for May
Character: Sam Wheeler
Released: August 10, 2002
Type: Movie
When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
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Before You Go
Title: Before You Go
Character: Frank
Released: June 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, obsessive cleaning and hectoring her long-suffering husband, Frank. Catherine, the youngest, resorts to retail therapy, industrial quantities of marijuana and manic phone calls to her elusive boyfriend in Barcelona. Middle daughter Mary seeks consolation in professional detachment and the arms of her lover, Mike. Like Mary, Mike's a doctor. Unlike Mary, he's married... The sisters soon discover that their early memories have grown fuzzy over time and the past becomes fuzzier still as they attempt to cope with their mother's parting.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Dr. Chasuble
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
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The Gathering Storm
Title: The Gathering Storm
Character: Sir Robert Vansittart
Released: April 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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Title: An Angel For May
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
This family-friendly miniseries tells the tale of a young boy who is transported from the present to WWII-era England, where he attempts to reorder events and change history.
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In the Bedroom
Title: In the Bedroom
Character: Matt Fowler
Released: November 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
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Black Knight
Title: Black Knight
Character: Sir Knolte of Marlborough
Released: November 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
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Another Life
Title: Another Life
Character: Mr. Carlton
Released: June 15, 2001
Type: Movie
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
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Chain of Fools
Title: Chain of Fools
Character: Bollingsworth
Released: March 3, 2001
Type: Movie
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
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Essex Boys
Title: Essex Boys
Character: John Dyke
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up
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The Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Character: Gen. Cornwallis
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: Movie
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
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Title: David Copperfield
Character: Narrator
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
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Ride with the Devil
Title: Ride with the Devil
Character: Orton Brown
Released: November 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Title: Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Character: Brother Dutton
Released: March 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
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Shakespeare in Love
Title: Shakespeare in Love
Character: Hugh Fennyman
Released: December 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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Rush Hour
Title: Rush Hour
Character: Griffin / Juntao
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
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The Governess
Title: The Governess
Character: Mr. Charles Cavendish
Released: July 31, 1998
Type: Movie
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
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Oscar and Lucinda
Title: Oscar and Lucinda
Character: Hugh Stratton
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
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Cold Enough for Snow
Title: Cold Enough for Snow
Character: Hugh Lloyd
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Doting parents (Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Tom Wilkinson) must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships. Sequel to Eskimo Day.
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Wilde
Title: Wilde
Character: Marquess of Queensberry
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
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The Full Monty
Title: The Full Monty
Character: Gerald Arthur Cooper
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Title: Smilla's Sense of Snow
Character: Prof. Loyen
Released: February 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
Title: The Ghost and the Darkness
Character: Sir Robert Beaumont
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Crossing the Floor
Title: Crossing the Floor
Character: David Hanratty
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
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Eskimo Day
Title: Eskimo Day
Character: Hugh
Released: April 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
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Sense and Sensibility
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Mr. Dashwood
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
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A Very Open Prison
Title: A Very Open Prison
Character: David Hanratty
Released: December 9, 1995
Type: Movie
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
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Priest
Title: Priest
Character: Father Matthew Thomas
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
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Title: Martin Chuzzlewit
Character: Seth Pecksniff
Released: November 7, 1994
Type: TV
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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Measure for Measure
Title: Measure for Measure
Character: Duke Vincentio
Released: November 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
Title: All Things Bright and Beautiful
Character: Father McAteer
Released: March 16, 1994
Type: Movie
A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.
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A Business Affair
Title: A Business Affair
Character: Bob
Released: March 16, 1994
Type: Movie
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
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Royal Deceit
Title: Royal Deceit
Character: Hardvendel
Released: February 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Appeal Prosecutor
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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Resnick: Rough Treatment
Title: Resnick: Rough Treatment
Character: DI Charlie Resnick
Released: July 25, 1993
Type: Movie
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice
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Title: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
Character: Gerald Lacklander
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994. In the pilot episode Detective Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams. William Simons played Alleyn's righthand man and "Watson" figure, Detective Sergeant Fox, and Belinda Lang starred as the painter Agatha Troy, Alleyn's love interest. Williams was unavailable when the first series was made, so whilst Simons and Lang reprised their original roles, the lead character was henceforth played by Patrick Malahide. The BBC made nine episodes in all, each based on a separate novel. The eight episodes featuring Malahide are available on DVD in the USA and UK. An Australian set has all nine episodes.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Buckingham (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Title: Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Character: DI Charlie Resnick
Released: March 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Peter Rawlins
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Title: Performance
Character: Duke Vincentio
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Paper Mask
Title: Paper Mask
Character: Dr. Thorn
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
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Title: Counterstrike
Released: July 1, 1990
Type: TV
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
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Title: TECX
Character: Hugo Gillon
Released: March 22, 1990
Type: TV
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Sometime in August
Title: Sometime in August
Character: Dr. Middleton
Released: February 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
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First and Last
Title: First and Last
Character: Stephen
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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Title: Stay Lucky
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: TV
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.
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Title: Happy Families
Character: Jack
Released: August 17, 1989
Type: TV
Happy Families is a children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each tale is about a family of characters which in turn is based on the Happy Families card game. The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and Elizabeth Estensen. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all, and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.
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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Title: The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Character: Silberbauer
Released: April 17, 1988
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.
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The Woman He Loved
Title: The Woman He Loved
Character: Ernest Simpson
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Robert Hathall
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Jake Normington
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: First Among Equals
Character: Raymond Gould
Released: September 30, 1986
Type: TV
First Among Equals is a ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and first shown in 1986. As in the novel, the series follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister. Several situations in the novel are drawn from Archer's own early political career in the British House of Commons. While the novel depitcts the fictional characters interacting with actual political figures from the UK and elsewhere, this adaptation uses different names for the real-life politicians.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Ashley Wilkes
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Sylvia
Title: Sylvia
Character: Keith
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used while working with the children from the indigenous Maon.
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Title: Happy Families
Released: October 17, 1985
Type: TV
Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It starred Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred around Guy's attempts to find his four sisters - also played by Saunders, for a family reunion.
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Wetherby
Title: Wetherby
Character: Roger Braithwaite
Released: June 19, 1985
Type: Movie
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
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Parker
Title: Parker
Character: Tom
Released: May 3, 1985
Type: Movie
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
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Title: Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Character: Detective Inspector Neele
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Detective Inspector Neele
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Squaring the Circle
Title: Squaring the Circle
Character: Rulewski
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Title: Spyship
Character: Martin Taylor
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: TV
When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor is determined to find out why.
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Letting the Birds Go Free
Title: Letting the Birds Go Free
Character: Eddie
Released: September 25, 1983
Type: Movie
A farm family catch a young man stealing eggs from their barn. Seemingly homeless, the man stays with them. Daughter Grace is disgusted by the stranger at first. The relationship between the outsider and the family changes course.
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Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Cadet
Released: May 22, 1979
Type: TV
A three-part adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where a young student commits a murder and is forced into incriminating himself.
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The Shadow-Line
Title: The Shadow-Line
Character: Ransome
Released: September 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Liar
Title: The Liar
Character: Trefusis
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill that does not go unrecognized at one of England’s finest educational establishments where he is groomed in the dark arts of spy craft. Whilst pursuing his first romance, Adrian is thrown into a wild and thrilling web of espionage. In a world where all is not what it seems, has Adrian met his match?
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The Man Who Saved Paris
Title: The Man Who Saved Paris
Character: Lester
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city's image (City of Love, Romance, Light) after the Nazi Occupation and falls in love when he least expects it.
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An Exchange of Fire
Title: An Exchange of Fire
Character: President Slajek
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public and private scrutiny.