Catherine SchellFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lead actress, onscreen from the '70s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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The Wimbledon Poisoner

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Alison Steadman, Philip Jackson, Catherine Schell, Paul Butterworth

Synopsis: This two-part British miniseries chronicled the misfortunes of meek solicitor Henry Farr (Robert Lindsay), trapped in dead-end suburban domesticity and saddled with a feminist virago of a wife named Elinor (Alison Steadman). Finally able to stand no more, Henry plotted to do away with Elinor by Read More

1994
The Summer House

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Lena Headey, David Threlfall

Synopsis: Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on marriage with her mother-dominated next door neighbor until everyone's comfortable life is disrupted by a visit from her exotic and flamboyant friend Lili (Jeanne Moreau, in a Read More

1993
Border

Actors: Shaun Scott, Edita Brychta, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: A group of young adults tries to escape from Czechoslovakia in 1952 in this historical drama. The communist regime sets up what appears to be a western zone in order to trap the escapees and trick them into speaking out against the oppressive regime. Only when it is too late do the people discover Read More

1988
On the Black Hill

Actors: Mike Gwilym, Robert Gwilym, Bob Peck, Gemma Jones, Nesta Harris

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Wales, On the Black Hill is adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin. This is the story of two Welsh brothers, identical twins. The film covers 80 years in the sibling's lives, touching upon their hopes, disappointments, romances and political entanglements. Rather than going Read More

1988
On the Third Day

Synopsis: In this drama, a tough old schoolteacher is shocked when he is visited by the illegitimate son he had never acknowledged. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Doctor Who: City of Death, Episode 1

Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Julian Glover, David Graham, Kevin Flood

Synopsis: A star-studded supporting cast enhances the enjoyment of the four-episode Doctor Who adventure "City of Death." On holiday in modern-day Paris, the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) experience what turns out to be a "crack in time." Before long, they have joined forces with a private eye Read More

1979
The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the reigning monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania. One day, while flying in a hot air balloon, a champagne cork sends him plummeting to his death. The rightful heir, who is Read More

1979
Doctor Who: City of Death, Episode 4

Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Julian Glover, David Graham, Kevin Flood

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "City of Death," Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover) -- aka the notorious art thief Scaroth -- has vanished into the past, with the Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana (Lalla Ward), and detective Duggan (Tom Chadbon) in hot pursuit. Unless the Doctor can stop Scaroth Read More

1979
Doctor Who: City of Death, Episode 3

Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Peter Halliday, Julian Glover, Tom Chadbon

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "City of Death," the Doctor (Tom Baker) discovers that Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover) has been stealing and selling valuable works of art in order to raise funds for his time-travel experiments. But there is a more pressing matter at hand: Romana (Lalla Ward Read More

1979
Doctor Who: City of Death, Episode 2

Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Tom Chadbon, Julian Glover, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "City of Death," the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) team with private eye Duggan (Tom Chadbon) to find out why Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover), who has everything a man could want in life, is so determined to steal DaVinci's Mona Lisa Read More

1979
Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Richard Harris, Catherine Schell, Norman Shelley, Meredith Edwards

Synopsis: Jonathan Swift's satire about a sailor's strange voyage is the source of this, one of many filmed adaptations of the tale. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
The Cosmic Princess

Actors: Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: Cosmic Princess is comprised of scenes from the syndicated TV series Space 1999. Most of this "TV movie" consists of the series' second-season opener, which introduced Maya (Catherine Schell), an extraterrestrial endowed with the ability to transform herself into any life form. Maya is the Read More

1975
The Next Voice You See

Synopsis: Look Back in Darkness is a 90-minute taped-for-TV thriller. Bradford Dillman plays a jazz pianist who was blinded by his wife's murderer. One day, while performing, Dillman hears the voice of his assailant. The rest of the story concerns Dillman's efforts to bring the criminal to heel before he Read More

1975
The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

1975
Space: 1999 [TV Series]

Actors: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: Space: 1999 was one of the more visible sci-fi disasters of early-'70s television, although it started out with some promising credentials. It was produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, who had been responsible for several fondly remembered series such as Supercar, Fireball XL-5 Read More

1975
Callan

Actors: Edward Woodward

Synopsis: A sensitive old British spy/assassin is accused of getting emotionally involved with his victims and gets a demotion in this drama that is titled The Neutralizer on video. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Space: 1999 - The Guardian of Piri

1975
Destination Moonbase Alpha

Synopsis: This sci-fi adventure was the pilot for a television series Space: 1999. It is set in the next century just after an enormous blast from an alien ship destroys half the moon and sends the rest hurtling through space. Unfortunately, upon the chunk of speeding rock is the research station Alpha Read More

1975
The Black Windmill

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, John Vernon

Synopsis: Michael Caine stars as an espionage agent whose young son is kidnapped. Complicating matters is the fact that the kidnappers (John Vernon and Delphine Seyrig) are Caine's own colleagues. They want to secure Caine's aid in rounding up a diamond smuggling ring, and they don't care who they have to Read More

1974
Madame Sin

Actors: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: The first appearance of Bette Davis in a made-for-television film has an evil mastermind (Davis) plotting against a CIA agent (Robert Wagner) for control of a deadly submarine. Aired in 1971, Madame Sin was the most expensive TV movie of the time. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Moon Zero Two

Actors: James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri, Ori Levy

Synopsis: A spaceman -- with a raygun -- for hire takes on a crooked land baron in this drama that moves Western themes into outer space. In the year 2021, Bill Kemp (James Olson), the first man to walk on Mars, is an astronaut for hire, renting his services to the highest bidder. J.J. Hubbard (Warren Mitchell Read More

1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the finest of the James Bond movies and also arguably the last truly great movie in the series. James Bond, portrayed here by George Lazenby (in his Read More

1969
The Amsterdam Affair

Actors: William Marlowe, Catherine Schell, Wolfgang Kieling, Pamela Ann Davy, J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann

Synopsis: Amsterdam Affair was adapted from the novel Love in Amsterdam by Nicholas Freeling. Wolfgang Kieling heads the cast as Inspector Van Der Valk, called in to investigate a woman's murder. The prime suspect is a novelist (William Marlowe) who had conducted a lengthy affair with the dead woman. The Read More

1968
Assignment K

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This lugubrious spy yarn finds Philip Scott (Stephen Boyd) posing as a toy manufacturer to hide his real purpose in life. He and his faithful operative Harris (Michael Redgrave) battle the evil Smith (Leo McKern) in Austria, England and West Germany. Toni Peters (Camilla Sparv) is the love Read More

1967
Traitor's Gate

Actors: Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond

Synopsis: Though based on an Edgar Wallace novel, Traitor's Gate was not part of the long-running British series of second features based on the works of Wallace. Albert Lieven plays a London businessman who doubles as a high-tech crook. He organizes an elite gang of thieves to steal the crown jewels. Their Read More

1966