Daphne du Maurier Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author
Biography:: Several of Daphne du Maurier's best-selling Gothic novels provided the basis for some of Hitchcock's best films, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and The Birds. Her works also inspired other filmmakers, including Nicholas Roeg. du Maurier's grandfather was noted author George du Maurier and her...Read More

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The Birds

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Naomi Watts

Synopsis: This Platinum Dunes remake takes a new spin on Daphne du Maurier's killer bird tale, best remembered in Alfred Hitchcock's horrific version back in 1963, with this Universal Pictures production. Naomi Watts stars, with frequent Casino Royale director Martin Campbell at the helm. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

1/1/10
Frenchman's Creek

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Tim Dutton, Rupert Vansittart, James Fleet, Tara Fitzgerald, Anthony Delon

Synopsis: Tara Fitzgerald stars as Lady Dona St. Columb, an affluent Londoner who takes refuge from stifling London society at her family's estate on the Cornish coast. It is there that she meets Jean Aubrey (Anthony Delon), a dashing French privateer who promptly offers her a life of romance and Read More

1998
Jamaica Inn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: This made-for-TV remake of the Alfred Hitchcock adventure stars Patrick McGoohan as the head of a crew of smugglers; Jane Seymour plays his niece, who discovers the secret history of the title inn. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Don't Look Now

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: A married couple is haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences after the death of their young daughter in this enigmatic chiller. Based on a story by Daphne du Maurier, whose works inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and The Birds, the film centers on Laura and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland Read More

1973
The Birds

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy Read More

1963
The Scapegoat

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Peter Bull

Synopsis: In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue Read More

1959
My Cousin Rachel

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz

Synopsis: Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton star in this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel. In a reversal of Jane Eyre, it is the hero who arrives at the home of a mysterious woman. Rachel (de Havilland) is the widow of a Cornish man of property (John Sutton), who died in suspicious Read More

1952
The Years Between

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson, James McKechnie, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Daphne Du Maurier, The Years Between stars Valerie Hobson as war widow Diana. Determined to carry on her husband's work, Diana enters the business world, ultimately emerging as a Member of Parliament. On the eve of her second marriage, Diana's first husband Michael (Michael Read More

1947
Hungry Hill

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Eileen Crowe, Michael Denison, Michael Golden, Eileen Herlie, Shamus Locke

Synopsis: The misery caused by a long-term feud between two Irish families provides the framework in this drama based on a book by Daphne du Maurier. The saga begins in 1840 as the father of the Donovan clan rebels against the Brodrick family, the owners of the copper mine located on what was formerly Read More

1947
Frenchman's Creek

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: Daphne du Maurier's novel formed the basis for this romantic adventure saga. Lady Dona St. Columb (Joan Fontaine), an English noblewoman, is unhappily married to the weak-willed Harry St. Columb (Ralph Forbes), while Harry's sinister best friend Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) makes no secret of Read More

1944
Rebecca

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays the unnamed narrator, a young woman who works as a companion to the well-to-do Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). She meets the wealthy widower Maxim Read More

3/27/40
Jamaica Inn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Basil Radford, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from Hitchcock's early British period before he left for the Hollywood studio system and David O. Selznick. In the England of the 1800s, a group of ruthless smugglers, led by Sir Read More

1939