Clive RussellFilmography

Born:: Scotland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Scottish-born Clive Russell is six and a half feet of bone and sinew. Add to his imposing stage presence his impressive acting skill and you have a colossal acting machine that can cry, bend steel, and recite Shakespeare. Russell has used his attributes to play Helfdane the Large in The Thirteenth Warrior...Read More

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The Wicker Tree

Actors: Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, Graham McTavish, Christopher Lee, Honeysuckle Weeks

Synopsis: Director Robin Hardy revisits his 1974 cult classic The Wicker Man with this related horror film concerning a cowboy (Henry Garrett) and a gospel singer (Brittania Nicol) who stop in Ireland on a missionary excursion only to come in contact with an aristocrat (Graham McTavish) whose nefarious Read More

1/1/10
Book of Blood

Actors: Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Paul Blair

Synopsis: A paranormal expert investigating a brutal murder discovers a house that stands at the intersection of several supernatural "highways" designed to transport souls to the afterlife in this adaptation of an original story by horror icon Clive Barker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Lecture 21

Actors: Noah Taylor, Clive Russell, Leonor Watling, John Hurt, Tim Barlow

Synopsis: Two men separated by a hundred years share a similar and provocative point of view in this offbeat drama. Mondrian Killroy (John Hurt) is an iconoclastic college professor who has earned a remarkable reputation for his lectures in which he presents scathing re-evaluations of important and Read More

2008
Ladies in Lavender

Actors: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and Janet Widdington (Maggie Smith) and her sister, Ursula (Judi Dench), are a pair of elderly spinsters who share a home in Cornwall on the coast of England. After a storm, the Read More

11/12/04
The Emperor's New Clothes

Actors: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Nigel Terry

Synopsis: A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy suggests that it was Napoleon's double, not the man himself, who died on St. Helena Island. The film begins by presenting Napoleon after his defeat at Waterloo, at the home of a Read More

6/14/02
The Mists of Avalon

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Read More

2001
Mr. In-Between

Synopsis: Noted for shooting such films as Exotica, Affliction and X-Men, cinematographer Paul Sarossy makes his directorial debut with this existential crime thriller about a killer struggling to reclaim his soul. Jon is a quiet, nice, and seemingly conventional character who no one would suspect is a Read More

2001
The Railway Children

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: A Masterpiece Theatre remake of the 1970 screen adaptation of E. Nesbit's beloved children's book, The Railway Children follows the fortunes of three resourceful children in turn-of-the-century England. An affluent family, the Waterburys fall upon difficult times when Mr. Waterbury (Michael Read More

2000
The 13th Warrior

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif

Synopsis: A cultured diplomat joins a band of savage warriors in time to meet an even more fearsome enemy in this historical adventure. In 922 A.D., Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) is a Muslim emissary from Baghdad en route to meet with the King of Saqaliba when he is captured by a gang of Vikings. While Ibn Read More

8/27/99
Out of Depth

Actors: Sean Maguire, Danny Midwinter, Nicholas Ball, Phil Cornwall, Josephine Butler

Synopsis: A man looks outside the law for justice and discovers the price was far higher than he expected in the drama Out of Depth. Paul (Sean Maguire) is a graphic designer who is furiously angry and appalled when a drunken thug beats up his mother (Rita Tushingham) and adds insult to injury by urinating Read More

1999
Bodywork

Actors: Hans Matheson, Charlotte Coleman, Lynda Bellingham

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the protagonist Virgil Guppy gets into a lot of mischief through his lack of foresight. Virgil is a bit of a 'yuppie.' He buys himself a Jaguar to complete the identity he has been trying to build up with a flat, a job, a certain wardrobe and a special girlfriend. The Read More

1998
Oscar and Lucinda

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis: Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led to his birth. On an Australian farm, Lucinda Leplastrier was Read More

1997
For My Baby

Actors: Alan Cumming, Juliet Aubrey, Frank Finlay, Elizabeth Spriggs, Serena Gordon

Synopsis: Scottish comedian Alan Cumming stars in this Dutch psychological drama, set in Vienna but mainly filmed in Budapest. Crazed stand-up comedian Daniel (Cumming) pleases his hospitalized mother (Hedi Temessy) by dressing to resemble his sister Hannah, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. After his Read More

1997
NeverWhere

Synopsis: Originally aired in 1996, NeverWhere is a six-part BBC fantasy miniseries written by comic book author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman). The story follows businessman Richard Mayhew (Gary Bakewell), who gets trapped in the dark underground world of London Below after he helps Lady Door (Laura Fraser). Read More

1996
Margaret's Museum

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik, Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: The often tragic lives of the residents of a Nova Scotia coal mining town are viewed through the eyes of a depressed young woman in this grim period drama. Set in the 1940s, the film begins with a brief, intentionally puzzling interlude before flashing back several years to focus on the story of Read More

1995
Ruffian Hearts

Synopsis: This British comedy chronicles the entangled relationships between an eccentric group of people. Marie works in a night club owned by a flamboyant mock-Italian, Grazetti. Marie's mother Beatti runs a dog parlor. Also involved is Mick, a depressive guitar player, and two horny art students who are Read More

1995
The Power of One

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Maria Marais

Synopsis: John G. Avildsen, director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, adapts Bryce Courtenay's compassionate novel about the coming of age of a white anti-apartheid activist during the years of World War II in South Africa. Avildsen cumbersomely grafts Courtenay's tale of fighting apartheid onto a Read More

3/27/92
Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Actors: Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: Gavin Bellini is half Scottish, half Italian. Perhaps that blend of two of the most romantic sensibilities in the world accounts for his being in London, scraping out a living as an illustrator. One day he runs into his father's brother and learns that, if he high-tails it to Glasgow in time to Read More

1992
The Hawk

Actors: Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale

Synopsis: The British psychological thriller The Hawk stars Helen Mirren as Anne Marsh, a housewife with a history of mental illness who begins to suspect that her husband (George Costigan) is a hunted serial killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Naked Brigade

Actors: Shirley Eaton, Ken Scott, Mary Chronopoulou, John Holland, Sonia Zoidou

Synopsis: In this WWII drama, a young woman arrives too late to save her archaeologist father from the Nazi forces invading Crete. She is helped by an all-female guerrilla force who try to help her get back to England. After an escape attempt fails, she stays on to help the force, whose leader she falls in Read More

1965