David MorrisseyFilmography

Centurion

Actors: Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, Dominic West, Noel Clarke, David Morrissey

Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Marshall helms this newest entry in his full-throttle filmography with this action-adventure concerning a Roman soldier (Michael Fassbender) trapped behind enemy lines in 117 A.D. The film also stars Quantum of Solace's Olga Kurylenko as a revenge-fueled nomad out for Roman Read More

Nowhere Boy

Actors: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Sangster, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff

The Other Boleyn Girl

Actors: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance

Synopsis: Adapted from author Philippa Gregory's historical novel of the same name, director Justin Chadwick's atmospheric period drama follows the fierce competition between sisters Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) to win the affections of Tudor king Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Anne Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevens, David Morrissey, Dominic Cooper, Janet McTeer

Synopsis: Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, and Dominic Cooper star in screenwriter Andrew Davies' adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale of love and class conflict. Marianne Dashwood (Wakefield) has fallen deeply in love with John Willoughby (Cooper), yet despite their feelings for one another the Read More

Don't Worry About Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Helen Elizabeth, James Brough, Kate Henry

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Actors: Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Priyanka Xi

Synopsis: A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel. Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) Read More

The Reaping

Actors: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Her faith shaken by a family tragedy from which she was never quite able to fully recover, a professor of theology from Louisiana State University moonlighting as a debunker of unexplained religious phenomena finds herself faced with an apocalyptic series of events that seem to reflect the ten Read More

Meadowlands [TV Series]

Actors: David Morrissey, Lucy Cohu, Felicity Jones, Harry Treadaway, Ralph Brown

Basic Instinct 2

Actors: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling, Hugh Dancy

Synopsis: When the mysterious death of a major athlete prompts Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis) to order the investigation of best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), criminal psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is slowly drawn into Tramell's seductive Read More

Stoned

Actors: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, Monet Mazur, Tuva Novotny

Synopsis: The final days of one of the truly legendary figures of British rock & roll are explored in this biographical drama, which marks the directorial debut of veteran producer Stephen Woolley. Brian Jones (played by Leo Gregory) was one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, and his incisive Read More

Derailed

Actors: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis: A clandestine love affair may claim a terrible price from two desperate people in this psychological thriller. Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is an advertising executive who is married to Deana (Melissa George) and has a young, diabetic daughter whose third kidney operation just failed. Charles's Read More

State of Play

Actors: David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald, James McAvoy

Synopsis: The government's dangerous penchant for favoring corporate interests is put to the ultimate test after an ambitious politician's research assistant perishes under mysterious circumstances, and a crime that at first appeared unconnected with the death is exposed to reveal an intricate web of lies Read More

This Little Life

Actors: Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey, David Morissey, Peter Mullan, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi

The Deal

Actors: David Morrissey, Michael Sheen, Frank Kelly, Paul Rhys, Dexter Fletcher

Synopsis: British director Stephen Frears' political docudrama The Deal was originally broadcast on Channel 4. The film is based on the real-life events that elevated Tony Blair to the seat of Prime Minister. The film shows how the hard-working, but not head-turning, Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) and the Read More

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey

Synopsis: Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy, action, and romance. In 1940, war rages throughout Europe, but the fighting has yet to arrive on the Greek island of Cephallonia, where life continues to follow its own slow Read More

Born Romantic

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Ian Hart, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Catherine McCormack, Olivia Williams

Synopsis: In modern-day London, three men and three women fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers (Ian Hart and John Thomson), who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. In one pairing, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), a sophisticated and slightly anal Read More

The Game of Death

Actors: David Morrissey, Jonathan Pryce, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, Neil Stuke

Synopsis: Roger Corman revives his tradition of bringing low-budget literary adaptations to the screen with this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, directed by Rachel Samuels. Lev L. Spiro strips the book down to its essence while also devising subplots that are not in the Read More

Some Voices

Actors: Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly MacDonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald

Fanny and Elvis

Actors: Kerry Fox, Ray Winstone, David Morrissey, Ben Daniels, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: British TV screenwriter Kay Mellor debuts with this quirky screwball comedy. The film opens with romance novelist Kate (Kerry Fox) crashing her VW bug into the gleaming Jaguar of car salesman Dave (Ray Winstone), resulting in an insult-barbed screamfest. They both enter the same pub, where they Read More

Pure Wickedness

Actors: Orla Brady, David Morrissey, Kevin Whately, Lesley Dunlop, Danielle McCormack

Synopsis: The four-part British miniseries Pure Wickedness was set in motion when Mo Healy (Lesley Dunlop), the neglected wife of a prominent doctor, entered into what she thought would be a casual affair with oafish window washer Geoff Meadows (Kevin Whateley). The consequences of this infidelity would be Read More

Hilary and Jackie

Actors: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance

Synopsis: Perhaps inspired by the success of biopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story -- and a book (entitled A Genius in the Family) -- also focuses on the destructive forces of being a musical genius. Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré are gifted sisters who grow up in England in the Read More

The Commissioner

Actors: John Hurt, Rosana Pastor, Alice Krige, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: George Sluizer (The Vanishing) directed this German-British-Belgian thriller about politico James Morton (John Hurt) who relocates in Brussels as the British commissioner to the Euro parliament, leaving his wife Isabelle (Alice Krige) behind. As British and German chemical outfits are about to Read More

The One That Got Away

Actors: Paul McGann

Synopsis: This British drama tells the story of a soldier who escaped captivity after a mission gone-awry. Paul McGann plays Corporal Chris Ryan, one soldier in a crew sent on a mission to destroy SCUD missiles after Saddam Hussein threatened Israel. Ryan's team was attacked, leaving several dead and the Read More

Finney

Actors: David Morrissey, Andy Serkis, Melanie Hill

Synopsis: A jazz musician who once turned his back on the family business finds that cutting one's ties to the past may not be as simple as walking away in this U.K.crime drama starring David Morrissey and Andy Serkis. Stephen Finne (Morrissey) comes from a long line of career criminals, but despite the Read More

Framed!

Actors: Timothy Dalton, David Morrissey, Timothy West, Annabelle Apsion, Trevor Cooper

Synopsis: In this detective drama a British gumshoe encounters an art dealer who turns out to be a supposedly dead criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Waterland

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Sinéad Cusack, John Heard, Cara Buono

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Swift, this drama follows the past and present crises of schoolteacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), who attempts to resolve the problems in his own life and the apathy of his students by relating stories of his troubled childhood in the English Fens (a marshy region in Read More

Black and Blue

Robin Hood

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Fox, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: Initially conceived as a theatrical feature, but originally aired on television in the United States, Robin Hood puts slight, but effective, twists on the legendary tale. Starring Patrick Bergin in the title role, the film follows Robin and his group of bandits as they fight Prince John and save Read More

Drowning by Numbers

Actors: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Jason Edwards

Synopsis: Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Three generations of women who share the same name -- 63-year-old Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright), her daughter Cissie Colpitts II (Juliet Stevenson), and granddaughter Cissie Colpitts III (Joely Richardson) Read More

Cause Célèbre

Actors: Helen Mirren, David Suchet

Synopsis: When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of Read More