Arthur Sullivan Filmography

Born:: May 13, 1842
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Topsy-Turvy

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Alan Corduner, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook

Synopsis: Noted for intimate character studies created in collaboration with his actors, director Mike Leigh makes a dramatic change of pace with this biography of comic opera composers W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) is an easily angered but otherwise emotionally remote lyricist Read More

12/15/99
Beggars and Choosers [TV Series]

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Isabella Hofmann, Carol Kane, Charlotte Ross, Paul Provenza

Synopsis: To paraphrase the late, great NBC programming executive Brandon Tartikoff, the television industry is comprised of two different groups of people: The "beggars," those actors, writers, directors, and producers who tirelessly and relentlessly package and pitch ideas, concepts, and premises for new Read More

1999
The Gondoliers (Australian Opera)

Crew: From Opera by

Synopsis: The Gilbert & Sullivan comedic operetta Gondoliers was performed by the Australian Opera Chorus and the Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, one hundred years after the opera debuted. This video recording features the musical and liberal liberties taken by Melvyn Morrow in his arrangements Read More

1990
The Pirates of Penzance

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith

Synopsis: Joseph Papp's notion of staging one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best-loved operettas with two pop singers (Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith) in the leads paid off as a surprise Broadway smash in the early 1980s, and this film faithfully reproduces Papp's production, featuring most of the original cast Read More

1983
The Gondoliers

Crew: From Opera by

Actors: Eric Shilling, Keith Michell, Francis Egerton, Tom McDonnell

Synopsis: The London Symphony Orchestra assists Eric Shilling, Keith Michell, Francis Egerton, and Tom McDonnell in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. The story concerns two gondoliers who must choose a wife from two-dozen prospective mates. Royal intrigue and mystery add the plot Read More

1982
The Pirates of Penzance

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Keith Michell, Alexander Oliver, Janis Kelly, Paul "H.R." Hudson, Peter Allen

Synopsis: Gilbert & Sullivan's immortal musical The Pirates of Penzance is performed live on-stage in this release from Acorn Media. The play tells the story of a young man who's accidental pirate apprenticeship threatens to do in the titular band of swashbucklers. Along with the London Symphony Orchestra Read More

1982
H.M.S. Pinafore

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Peter Marshall, Frankie Howerd, Meryl Drower

Synopsis: Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens with the crew of the Pinafore busily and boisterously sprucing up the deck for the arrival of Sir Joseph Porter, a high-ranking admiral. They pause only to buy wares from the peddler called Little Buttercup and then return happily to work. But not all are Read More

1982
The Pirate Movie

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: An introverted girl who yearns for popularity (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a curly haired hunk (Christopher Atkins). After selecting Mabel (McNichol) to participate in the act, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for Read More

1982
The Getting of Wisdom

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Susannah Fowle, Barry Humphries, John Waters, Sheila Helpmann, Patricia Kennedy

Synopsis: The suffocating repressiveness of the Victorian era is superbly realized by director Bruce Beresford in The Getting of Wisdom. Thirteen-year-old Laura (Susannah Fowle), an incorrigible free spirit from the Australian outback, is enrolled in a prestigious girl's boarding school. The indoctrination Read More

1977
The Naughty Victorians

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Beerbohm Tree, Susan Sloane, Jennifer Jordan, Heather Brown

1975
The Mikado

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Donald Adams, Valerie Masterson

Synopsis: This TV adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado was produced by British Home Entertainment in 1966 and released to American public television one year later. John Wood heads the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in a virtually uncut version of the venerable comic opera. The story, set in an old Read More

1967
The Cool Mikado

Crew: From Musical by

Synopsis: In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza (Japanese mafia) fiance who kidnaps him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
The Notorious Landlady

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood

Synopsis: This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes Read More

1962
Stranger's Meeting

Actors: Peter Arne, Delphi Lawrence, Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips, Reginald Hearne

Synopsis: A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence heads a stellar cast, including such reliables as Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips and Reginald Hearne. The plot centers around Read More

1957
The Great Gilbert and Sullivan

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Peter Finch, Martyn Green

Synopsis: Robert Morley and Maurice Evans play W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, 19th-century composers of such imperishable comic operettas as H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Much is made of the inescapable fact that Gilbert and Sullivan grew to dislike each other intensely. Also Read More

1953
The Set-Up

Actors: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the action played out in "real time." Robert Ryan plays Bill "Stoker" Thompson, a washed-up boxer who refuses to give up his career despite the pleas of his wife Julie (Audrey Read More

1949
Girl on the Spot

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: A would-be nightclub entertainer finds her life jeopardized after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder while heading for an audition. Fortunately, a brave photographer is there to save her and this crime drama ends on a happy note. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1946
The Mikado

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, John Barclay, Gregory Stroud

Synopsis: Though it boasts an American director and star, this Technicolor cinemadaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta The Mikado is a faithful record of what it must have been like to attend a performance of Britain's D'Oyly Carte opera company. Less annoying than in his other film Read More

1939
The Lost Chord

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Dave Powell, Alice Lake, Dagmar Godowsky, Charles Emmett Mack

Synopsis: Even though films up until the late '20s were silent, it doesn't mean they were devoid of musical devices. This sentimental drama uses a popular and poignant piece of music as its title and inspiration. You can bet the song was featured prominently in the musical score when the film played in Read More

1925