Alan HowardFilmography

Born:: August 5, 1937 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British supporting actor Alan Howard is primarily a stage actor, but he also occasionally appears in feature films. His movie career began with a small role in the controversial British courtroom drama, one of the first to dare present homosexuality in a nonjudgmental light, Victim (1962). Major...Read More

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Ballets Russes

Synopsis: Filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine explore the remarkable history of the legendary dance troupe Ballets Russes in this meticulously researched documentary that traces the evolution of the group from their 1909 debut performance in Paris until their final 1962 show in Brooklyn, NY. Performing Read More

10/26/05
Death in Holy Orders

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: This mystery centers around an isolated British town in which a death at a theological college, previously ruled as accidental, is reopened for an extended investigation by Scotland Yard. Commander Dalgliesh, a former student at the college, conducts the necessary research at first simply as a Read More

2004
David Copperfield

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of the BBC's multipart 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel David Copperfield came this American-financed version, prepared for the TNT cable network as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Child actor Max Dolbey and adult performer Hugh Dancy share the Read More

2000
The Master Poets Collection: William Shakespeare - A Poet for All Time

Synopsis: Within a 20-year span, William Shakespeare produced more plays and sonnets that have survived the breath of time and impacted more people than any other writer in history. In this video, renowned Shakespearean actor Alan Howard dramatizes some of the Bard's best-known works. Filmed on location at Read More

1998
The Secret Rapture

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Joanne Whalley, Penelope Wilton, Neil Pearson, Alan Howard

Synopsis: David Hare adapted his play about the tensions simmering within a British family, which erupt with the death of their patriarch. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
A Little Piece of Sunshine

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Philip Michael Thomas, Larry Lamb

Synopsis: Sunshine, a sunny Carribean island, is a little-known haven for organized crime, drug running, and murder. When a private investigator (Philip Michael Thomas) arrives to investigate the mysterious death of a British governer, he finds himself at odds with the Cuban Secret Police, the Miami Read More

1994
Death Has a Bad Reputation

Actors: Alan Howard, Elizabeth Hurley, Tony Lo Bianco, Gottfried John

Synopsis: Set in England and Europe, Death Has a Bad Reputation stars Alan Howard as a crack British espionage agent. Howard breaks and twists the rules to bring terrorist Tony Lo Bianco to justice. The quest is as much personal as professional: Howard's son has just been seriously injured in a terrorist Read More

1991
Strapless

Actors: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough

Synopsis: As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor boyfriend and embarks on a tour of European churches. After a chance encounter with charming businessman Raymond Forbes (Bruno Ganz), Lillian finds herself tempted to Read More

5/18/90
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth

Synopsis: This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a Read More

4/6/90
Dakota Road

Actors: Amelda Brown, Jason Carter, Charlotte Chatton, Alan Howard

Synopsis: In this finely observed low-key drama, Alan Brandon lives by himself. Compared to his employee Bernard, he's practically upper-crust, but in reality he is just a small property holder. He has had his eye on Bernard's abused wife and teen-aged older daughter for some time and has yearnings for some Read More

1990
Pride and Extreme Prejudice

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Alan Howard, Lisa Eichhorn, Leonie Mellinger, Simon Cadell

Synopsis: Pride and Extreme Prejudice was first seen January 17, 1990, on the USA Cable TV network. Brian Dennehy is atypically but effectively cast as an ageing CIA agent headquartered in West Germany. Dennehy has recently recovered from a nervous breakdown, and as a result he falls under the deadly Read More

1990
A Casualty of War

Actors: Shelley Hack, David Threlfall, Alan Howard, Bill Bailey, Amanda Burton

Synopsis: Frederick Forsyth's novel is the basis for this made-for-television movie about British agents attempting to halt arms-smuggling between the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and Libya. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Return of the Musketeers

Actors: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Richard Lester returned to his double-barreled successes of the 1970s, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, with Return of the Musketeers, a film that was inexplicably shelved for several years, making its belated premiere on cable television. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Read More

1989
The Price of the Bride

Synopsis: In this espionage thriller, American and British operatives team up to learn the real reason behind a KGB officer's defection. The two sides suspect that it's all part of an elaborate assassination conspiracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Just Another Secret

Actors: Beau Bridges, Alan Howard, Kenneth Cranham, Beatie Edney, James Faulkner

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable espionage adventure, a U.S. espionage agent's look into the disappearance of a colleague stationed in East Berlin leads to his uncovering a conspiracy to murder a prominent Soviet leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Dog It Was That Died

1988
A Perfect Spy

Actors: Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Alan Howard, Rüdiger Weigang, Jane Booker

Synopsis: This spy outing hones in on secret agent Magnus Pym (Peter Egan). Having impersonated so many different people during his career as a British spy, Pym eventually lost track of who he really was -- a confusion compounded by the fact that he knew nothing of his actual past. Ultimately feeling that Read More

1988
The Race for the Double Helix

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis: This British made-for-television movie tells the story of the 1950s competition to unlock the mystery behind DNA, and the personal and political tribulations that accompanied the endeavor. Jeff Goldblum stars as American scientist Jim Watson, and Tim Pigott-Smith is Britain's Francis Crick. Read More

1986
A Better Class of Person

1985
Oxford Blues

Actors: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands, Julian Firth

Synopsis: This is an uneven modern remake of A Yank at Oxford (1938) from writer-director Robert Boris, the man behind such diverse earlier productions as Some Kind of Hero (1981) and Doctor Detroit (1983). Rob Lowe stars as Nick Di Angelo, an American hustler and parking attendant in Las Vegas who falls in Read More

1984
Notorious Woman

Actors: Rosemary Harris, George Chakiris, Alan Howard, Jeremy Irons

Synopsis: The title character in this British historical miniseries was 19th century French novelist Aurore Dupin (1804-1876), who wrote under the nom de plume of George Sand. Audaciously adopting male clothing and scandalizing her contemporaries by talking and behaving in a mannish fashion, George Sand Read More

1974
Work Is a Four Letter Word

Actors: David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin

Synopsis: Set in a futuristic world where man and machines compete, this comical fantasy centers upon a rather eccentric man who prefers raising his special giant, euphoria-producing mushrooms to working and spending time with his fiancee. He means well, for he believes that his funny fungus will help Read More

1968
The Heroes of Telemark

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut Straud (Richard Harris), a leading figure in the Read More

1965
The Americanization of Emily

Actors: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward. While his comrades sail off to their deaths, Garner makes himself scarce, generally hiding out in the London flat of his lothario navy buddy James Coburn Read More

1964
Victim

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Peter McEnery

Synopsis: In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a Read More

1962