David HareFilmography

Born:: June 5, 1947 in Sussex, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor, Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Play Author
Biography:: David Hare is one of Great Britain's most distinguished contemporary playwrights. In some regards, Hare's work can be considered a sort of conscience for his nation during the '70s and '80s and many of his plays centered on Britain's apparent declining economics, spirituality and morality. Some...Read More

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The Reader

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Habich

Synopsis: Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers Read More

12/10/08
My Zinc Bed

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: Paddy Considine, Uma Thurman, and Jonathan Pryce star in this feature adaptation of acclaimed writer David Hare's searing play, an uncompromising study of alcohol addiction and obsession. Paul is a poet and recovering alcoholic in search of employment. Offered a job by a kind billionaire Read More

2008
John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Robert Stephens, Jill Bennett

2006
The Hours

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette

Synopsis: Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her Read More

12/27/02
Via Dolorosa

Actors: David Hare

Synopsis: Noted playwright and screenwriter David Hare stars in this one man filmed stage play that was the toast of both London's West End and of Broadway. Using a spare set-up of four stationary cameras, the film shows Hare recounting his disconcerting visit to Israel. He compares it with his native Read More

2000
The Designated Mourner

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson, David de Keyser

Synopsis: This film adaptation of the acclaimed play by Wallace Shawn takes place in an unnamed country, where a repressive regime has come to power and begun rounding up and executing intellectuals. Jack (Mike Nichols), a journalist who aspired to a career as a novelist, sits with his wife Judy (Miranda Richardson Read More

1997
The Absence of War

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: John Thaw, Richard Pasco, Nicholas Day, Saskia Wickham, Martin Jarvis

Synopsis: Adapted by David Hare from his own play (the last in Hare's "political trilogy"), this British TV movie stars John Thaw as politician George Jones. Going against the grain of his bosses during a tough political contest, Jones finds himself campaigning against his own party. Though the ending is Read More

1995
The Secret Rapture

Crew: Associate Producer, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Joanne Whalley, Penelope Wilton, Neil Pearson, Alan Howard

Synopsis: David Hare adapted his play about the tensions simmering within a British family, which erupt with the death of their patriarch. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Damage

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of Read More

12/9/92
Strapless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough

Synopsis: As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor boyfriend and embarks on a tour of European churches. After a chance encounter with charming businessman Raymond Forbes (Bruno Ganz), Lillian finds herself tempted to Read More

5/18/90
Heading Home

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Oldman, Joely Richardson, Stephen Dillane, Stella Gonet, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: An older woman recalls the circumstances that lead to the loss of her innocence in this touching, off-beat drama. For her, the road to worldliness began just after WW II when she fell in love with a poet and a real estate magnate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Paris by Night

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher, Andrew Ray

Synopsis: British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by Read More

1989
Plenty

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting

Synopsis: Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement Read More

1985
Wetherby

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Stuart Wilson, Marjorie Yates, Tim McInnerny

Synopsis: In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old-maid schoolmarm who has lived in Wetherby, a Read More

1985
Saigon: Year of The Cat

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall, Josef Sommer, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Saigon: Year of the Cat is a low-budget drama about the fall of Saigon. The film was made for the BBC in 1983. It was one of many television projects that director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) worked on in the early part of his career. Playwright David Hare (Plenty) wrote the script. Judi Dench Read More

1983
Dreams of Leaving

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dreams of Leaving is centered around the Candide-like experiences of novice journalist Bill Nighy. He is determined to experience first-hand the social and mating habits of London's elite. Nighy gets more than he bargained for at the hands of bed-hopping socialite Kate Nelligan. Dreams of Leaving Read More

1979
Licking Hitler

Crew: Director

1974