Barbara JeffordFilmography

Born:: July 26, 1930 in Plymstock, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: From her first stage appearance in Brighton in 1949, to her screen appearance in 1999's The Ninth Gate, British screen actress Barbara Jefford has often been seen in cool, "still waters run deep" roles (though she lists as her favorite characters the far from sedate Cleopatra and Saint Joan)....Read More

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Madame Bovary

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Greg Wise, Hugh Dancy, Keith Barron

Synopsis: Previously filmed by such cinematic geniuses as Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert's once-scandalous 1857 novel Madame Bovary was transformed into a two-part British miniseries in 2000. Set in the rural Normandy of the 1830s and 1840s, this is the story of Emma Rouault (Frances O'Connor Read More

2000
The Ninth Gate

Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare book broker who makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles. Corso is hired by Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) Read More

8/25/99
Where Angels Fear to Tread

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: A wealthy, upper-class British widow marries a much younger Italian man with disastrous results in this turn-of-the-century costume drama based on the E.M. Forster novel. After marrying into a wealthy family and then losing her husband, middle-aged Lilia Herriton (Helen Mirren) suffers under the Read More

2/28/92
Reunion

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Christien Anholt, Samuel West, Françoise Fabian, Maureen Kerwin

Synopsis: Jason Robards plays an older Jewish man who returns to Stuttgart, Germany which he left in 1933 during the onslaught of the Third Reich. He reunites with a German man who, as a boy, was his childhood friend. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

3/15/91
When the Whales Came

Actors: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, David Suchet, Helen Pearce

Synopsis: In this English drama, set during World War I, a strange, deaf man, known to all as "The Birdman" (Paul Scofield), must enlist the help of young Daniel Pender (Max Rennie) and Gracie Jenkins (Helen Pearce) to prevent the narwhal whales from suffering abuse at the hands of the local islanders. Read More

10/20/89
Campion: Look to the Lady

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Robin Lermette, Sarah Finch

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Look to the Lady. Set in Suffolk, England during the 1930s, the story concerns the Gyrth Chalice, a 1000-year-old artifact stolen from a once-prominent family Read More

1989
Porterhouse Blue

Actors: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Tim Preece, Roy Evans, John Rogan, Earl Rhodes, Bob Goody

Synopsis: Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in Read More

1987
Loving Walter

Actors: Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Paula Tilbrook

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' Loving Walter combines 1982's Walter, produced for Britain's Channel Four, and its sequel, 1983's Walter and June. Based on the best-selling book by David Cook, the story details the plight of Walter (Ian McKellan), a moderately retarded man, after the deaths of his Read More

1986
Claudia

Synopsis: Eager to escape her high-society life among the English elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however, has other plans for her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Murders at Lynch Cross

Actors: Sylvia Syms, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: Made for British television, this film concerns a bizarre, out-of-the-way Yorkshire hotel and its mysterious inhabitants. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
And the Ship Sails on

Actors: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi

Synopsis: This evocative look at a 1914 ocean voyage to scatter the ashes of a world-famous opera singer (Janet Suzman) is by turns charming, funny, and bizarre. Among the ship's passengers are aristocrats, politicians, singers, and a rhinoceros. Their episodic interactions form the core of the film, with Read More

10/7/83
Nelly's Version

Actors: Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Ball, Brian Deacon

Synopsis: Heavy with symbolism and light on storyline, this unbalanced tale of an unbalanced woman leaves a few open questions at the end. When Nelly (Eileen Atkins) is first encountered in a hotel, she does not remember her family or her friends and draws a blank when a detective arrives to connect her Read More

1983
Walter

Actors: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Paula Tilbrook

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears paints a bleak and cynical picture of the ordinary Brit's ability to relate to someone less fortunate in this hard-hitting look at the world of the mentally handicapped. Walter (Ian McKellen) is a kind-hearted man who is mentally challenged. Walter's parents are remote and Read More

1982
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Actors: Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Read More

8/31/73
Lust for a Vampire

Actors: Yutte Stensgaard

Synopsis: This is one of three Hammer films loosely based on Sheridan LeFanu's book Camilla, which gives the standard vampire story a lesbian twist. The other two films are The Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil. In this film, Count Karnstein, through a magical ritual, relies on the feedings of the newly Read More

1971
The Bofors Gun

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, Peter Vaughan, Richard O'Callaghan

Synopsis: John McGrath's television play The Bofors Gun was expanded (if not improved) by this film adaptation. The time is 1954: a weak-willed British corporal (David Warner) desperately wants to improve his lot in the National Service by taking the officer's entrance course. A rebellious, sociopathic Read More

1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Hugh Sullivan, Nicholas Selby, David Warner

Synopsis: British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did Read More

1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier Read More

1968
Ulysses

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Martin Dempsey

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a student/poet in Dublin. Focusing more upon the characters' thoughts and fantasies than upon their actions, it features some of Joyce's previously banned prose. This drama was Read More

1967
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Synopsis: This 1961 adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of errors was performed entirely by puppets. Let's qualify that: the puppets are of the stop-motion variety, expertly manipulated into "humanity" by Czech animator Jiri Trnka. The adaptation is faithful to the text, while the technique allows a Read More

1963
Hamlet

Actors: John Neville

1959