Anthony AndrewsFilmography

Tha Alkaholiks: X.O. - The Movie Experience

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In the tradition of Robert Frank's harrowing 1972 C.S. Blues and the behind-the-scenes moments of Peter Clifton and Joe Massot's 1973 The Song Remains the Same comes the eye-opening 83-minute documentary The Alkaholiks: X.O. - The Movie Experience. The Alkaholiks, an Underground rap sensation Read More

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

Haunted

Crew: Producer

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud, Anna Massey

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by James Herbert, this subtle, melancholy British chiller owes a great deal to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. The story opens with a chilling prologue in 1905 England, in which a young boy fails to prevent the accidental drowning of his sister. As a young man, David (Aidan Quinn Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Jewels'

Synopsis: When an American socialite's husband dies, she is faced with running the business the two have successfully created--a vast jewelry empire--together with staving off the petty jealousies and rivalries she has with her siblings. Of course, there is also romance off in the wings, or it wouldn't be a Danielle Steel Read More

Lost in Siberia

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Vladimir A. Ilyin, Yelena Mayorova, Irina Mikhaleva, Alexandr Gureev

Synopsis: Geopolitics and big oil play into the capture of a British geologist (Anthony Andrews) by the Russian military in Iran at the end of 1945. As soon as they capture him, they ship him off to a Siberian prison camp. The majority of the rest of the film is about his attempts to survive, and the Read More

Hands of a Murderer

Actors: Peter Jeffrey, Edward Woodward, John Hillerman

Synopsis: In this entry in the continuing exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the great detective must track down his nemesis Professor Moriarty after the villain kidnaps Holme's brother Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents. The film is also called Hands of Read More

Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Synopsis: After an absence of nearly a decade, Peter Falk returns to the role of dishevelled detective Columbo in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine. The special guest murderer this time out is professional psychic Anthony Andrews. The victim is magician Anthony Zerbe, a onetime cellmate of Andrews' who had Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: This 60-minute TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 doppelganger yarn stars Anthony Andrews as kindly London medico Henry Jekyll. Fascinated by the concept that within every man lurks two separate personalities--one good, one evil--Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion that releases his own Read More

Hanna's War

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, David Warner

Synopsis: Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II. Though safely ensconced in Palestine at the outbreak of the war, Hannah volunteers to venture behind enemy lines in Europe on a life-or-death mission. Unfortunately, she is Read More

The Lighthorsemen

Actors: Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, Tony Bonner, Bill Kerr, John Walton

Synopsis: An elite Australian cavalry unit attacks the Turkish-held stronghold of Beersheba in this World War I adventure drama. Four friends goes through the trials of battle in this epic $10 million production. The Australians resent being led by the British who continually misuse the cavalry. They Read More

The Woman He Loved

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Phyllis Calvert, Olivia de Havilland, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy, Jane Seymour, Julie Harris

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, The Woman He Loved is the story of the romance between Britain's King Edward VII (Anthony Andrews) and American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson (Jane Seymour). Forbidden by the Church of England and Royal Protocol to wed Mrs. Simpson, Edward abdicates in 1936, spending Read More

Bluegrass

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

Suspicion

Synopsis: In this remake of Hitchock's great suspense film, a new bride is filled with dread as her suspicions that her groom is a ruthless killer mount. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Second Victory

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, Helmut Griem, Mario Adorf, Birgit Doll

Synopsis: The first victory in The Second Victory is the Allied triumph in World War II. British major Anthony Andrews, in charge of the occupation troops in a remote Austrian village, must deal with the uncooperative attitude of the locals when one of his men is killed by a deranged Axis soldier. Andrews Read More

The Holcroft Covenant

Actors: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer and writers Edward Anhalt and George Axelrod try to inject some life into this adaptation of Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novel. Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft, who was adopted in Germany by an American family in the waning days of World War II. Now Read More

A.D.

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Synopsis: Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the Read More

Observations Under the Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Michael Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Director Christian Blackwood filmed this documentary of John Huston directing his actors and camera crew -- and taking time out -- as he created the 1984, award-winning Under the Volcano. Best for film aficionados, Blackwood shows how scenes were developed, run through, and then completed -- and Read More

Under the Volcano

Actors: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his Read More

Notes From Under The Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Unlike Christian Blackwood's documentary covering this identical subject, Gary Conklin has not gone into depth on the making of Under The Volcano but stays with views of the camera crew, director, and actors at work, as well as some comical scenes of real-life prostitutes (who played prostitutes Read More

Sparkling Cyanide

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich Read More

Ivanhoe

Actors: James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Olivia Hussey, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: The classic adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, which covers the same ground as the various Robin Hood legends, becomes this impressive television production, boasting a well-heeled British cast, a robust pace, and solid production values. Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Anthony Andrews) is a young Saxon Read More

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Jane Seymour, Anthony Andrews, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: Swordplay, secret messages, and the rustle of ballroom finery make this 1982 adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel a gala bash. Anthony Andrews heads the cast as English nobleman Sir Percy Blakeney, a conceited but amusing fop in the drawing rooms of British high society. But beneath his veneer of Read More

Brideshead Revisited

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The Read More

Mistress of Paradise

Synopsis: In her first TV-movie appearance, Genevieve Bujold plays Elizabeth, an attractive heiress from the North who becomes the second wife of aristocratic Creole plantation owner Charlie Beaufort (Chad Everett) in the mid-19th century. As the new "Mistress of Paradise," Elizabeth immediately finds Read More

Danger UXB

Synopsis: The 13-part Danger UXB was the third presentation in the 1980-81 season of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Based upon the memoirs of Major A. B. "Bill" Hartley, this British production stars Anthony Andrews as engineer Brian Ash. In the early days of World War II, Brian volunteers for the Royal Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Actors: John Gielgud, Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire

Synopsis: This 3-hour TV adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet features Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire in the title roles. Though these names may not be familiar to the casual viewer, the same cannot be said of the supporting cast. Celia Johnson appears as the Nurse, Michael Hordern is Lord Read More

Much Ado About Nothing

Actors: Penelope Keith, Michael York

Operation Daybreak

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Karel Curda, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the Read More

Los Adolescentes

Synopsis: Under the influence of the degenerate English, a perfectly proper Spanish girl finds nothing but trouble and is lured into the sex-movie business. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 05

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household to a close. So much time has to be dealt with this season that the producers expanded the episode output from 13 to 16 hour-long episodes. And because virtually every one of Read More

QB VII

Actors: Leslie Caron, Ben Gazzara, John Gielgud, Juliet Mills, Lee Remick, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adaptation of the Leon Uris epic stars Anthony Hopkins as a Polish doctor accused by an American writer (Ben Gazarra) of assisting the Nazis with medical experiments. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

It's Not the Size That Counts

Actors: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with Leigh Lawson taking over for Hywel Bennett in the leading role. The plot concerns a chemical that contaminates the world's water supply; as a result, every man is rendered Read More

Take Me High

Synopsis: In this musical, a restaurant tries to establish itself by advertising a new hamburger. The owner is helped out by an amiable bank manager. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A War of Children

Actors: Vivien Merchant, Jenny Agutter, John Ronane, Anthony Andrews, Danny Figgis

Synopsis: The War of Children is an uncomfortably realistic TV drama of the latter-day "troubles" in Ireland. The tension is magnified by the decision to film many of the key scenes in battle-scarred Belfast, with the crew dodging bullets all down the line. These sequences were seamlessly blended with Read More