Dawn FrenchFilmography

Born:: October 11, 1957 in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Dawn Roma French
Biography:: Best known as one-half of the British sketch comedy team French and Saunders and as the star of the long-running sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, the unabashedly full-figured, rubber-faced Welsh comedienne Dawn French began life in the harbor town of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on October 11, 1957. As a...Read More

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Coraline

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French

Synopsis: A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones Read More

2/6/09
Clatterford: Season 02

2008
La Fille du Regiment

Actors: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli

Synopsis: London's Royal Opera House mounted this production of Gaetano Donizetti's 1840 opera La Fille du Régiment, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez as the principals. The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House provide added musical accompaniment under the direction of Read More

2007
Love and Other Disasters

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Santiago Cabrera, Matthew Rhys, Catherine Tate, Elliot Cowan

Synopsis: A hyperactive and high-fashion American transplant living in London and working for Vogue magazine does her best to enhance the lives of those around her while remaining blissfully unaware of the man who longs to profess his true love to her in an ultra-modern romantic comedy produced by Luc Besson Read More

2006
Clatterford [TV Series]

Synopsis: This quirky British sitcom follows the lives of the local Women's Guild in picturesque Clatterford, a cozy village in the English countryside where opinions are strong, and nobody's afraid to share them. The series stars Maggie Steed, as the head of the guild, and Dawn French as a peculiar worker Read More

2006
Clatterford: Season 01

2006
Little Britain Abroad

Actors: Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Dawn French, Steve Coogan, Ronnie Corbett

Synopsis: Little Britain: Abroad contains the Christmas special of the British comedy series. The various storylines involve Lou and Andy taking a trip to Disneyworld, Vicky Pollard's mom getting her daughter out of a jam in Thailand, and various adventures featuring the Fat Fighters. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

2006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Actors: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson

Synopsis: Four siblings -- Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell) -- are sent from their London home to the country estate of an eccentric professor in order to ensure their safety during World War II. The house is very dull, except for a large Read More

12/9/05
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

6/4/04
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Actors: Terry Jones, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Terry Gilliam

2004
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This collection of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders focuses on the show's earliest episodes, from the late '80s. The duo's signature film and TV parodies are in short supply, although Dawn French does essay the role of Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the Cat in a send-up of Read More

2003
French & Saunders: Living in a Material World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This compendium of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders pokes fun at everything from Baywatch and the Batman franchise to Björk and Ingmar Bergman, stopping along the way to mock British tennis players and postcolonial biddies. Most of the material dates from the early to Read More

2002
Maybe Baby

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Tom Hollander, Hugh Laurie, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: In this light comedy directed by British writer-comedian Ben Elton, Sam and Lucy Bell (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) are an upwardly mobile London couple who are trying desperately to conceive a baby. Along for the ride, which is laden with sperm-count and hormone-injection jokes, is a cast Read More

8/24/01
The Wheels on the Bus [Animated TV Series]

2001
French & Saunders: F&S TV

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This French & Saunders special from May 1999 features an extended parody of the BBC TV drama Silent Witness. Here the program becomes "Witless Silence," and Jennifer Saunders steps into the forensic-pathologist part played by Amanda Burton in the actual series. In another segment, "Acting Read More

1999
French & Saunders: The Phantom Millennium

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After the advent of Absolutely Fabulous and The Vicar of Dibley, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders stopped producing regular seasons of their eponymous show in favor of a series of holiday specials. This edition, from Christmas 1999, is based around an extended parody of Star Wars: Episode 1 Read More

1999
Watership Down

Actors: Kate Ashfield, Richard Briers, Sue Elliott-Nichols, Andrew Falvey, Dawn French

Synopsis: A British-Canadian coproduction (seen on ITV in Britain), Watership Down was a serialized TV cartoon version of Richard Adams' classic allegorical novel (previously filmed as an animated feature in 1978). The story concerned a group of rabbits who, after experiencing a vision of their warren's Read More

1999
David Copperfield

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Ciarán McMenamin

Synopsis: A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather, Murdstone (Trevor Eve). After biting Murdstone Read More

1999
The Vicar of Dibley: Series 03

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: Four new episodes are on the docket as The Vicar of Dibley enters its third and final season. This time around, the episode titles reflect the four seasons in the uniquely eccentric coastal village of Dibley--and four eventful phases in the life of the town's rambunctious female Vicar, Boadicea Read More

1999
The Vicar of Dibley: Series 02

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: Season Two of the British comedy series The Vicar of Dibley yields four new episodes, the first of which, "ngagement", finds Dibley's boisterous female Vicar "Gerry" Granger (Dawn French) helping to smooth the course of romance for Dibley's two most timid citizens, Alice Tinker (Emma Chambers) and Read More

1998
Milk

Actors: James Fleet, Phyllida Law, Joss Ackland, Clotilde Courau, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The first feature by Bill Brookfield, Milk is an offbeat British comedy about a family in mourning. The death of an 81-year-old woman sets the scene for this tale about family funerals and the difficulty of burying one's mother. Adrian is an unmarried, unworldly, and unstable dairy farmer Read More

1998
The Vicar of Dibley: Dibley Live

1998
Dusty: Full Circle - The Life & Music of Dusty Springfield

Synopsis: Dusty Springfield was quite simply one of the very best vocalists to emerge from the British pop music scene; blessed with a superb voice and the smarts and soul to use it to its best advantage, Springfield scored a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s with such classics as Read More

1997
Treasure Island

Actors: Dawn French, Juliet Stevenson, Chris Barrie, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Young Jim Hawkins and the pirate Long John Silver race to find the same treasure located on a mysterious map in this animated adaptation of the timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Synopsis: Unlike the more familiar animated Pinocchio by Disney, there are no song interludes here, and characters added to the story by Disney (such as Jiminy Cricket) are not included. Producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Steve Barron, (known for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film) closely Read More

1996
The Vicar of Dibley: Series 01

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: With the dead of Dibley's ancient vicar Percy Pottle, the ultra-conservative Dibley Parish Council requests that the Bishop send out a replacement ASAP. Imagine the surprise of blustery Council Chairman David Horton (Gary Waldhorn) when the new vicar turns out to be a youthful, exuberant and Read More

1994
French & Saunders: At the Movies

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This collection of skits from the fourth series of French & Saunders lives up to its title. Although the comedic duo takes aim at British culture, BBC TV, pop stars, and the Middle Ages, most of the material focuses on Hollywood parody. Dawn French takes on a pair of box-office villains as she Read More

1994
French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: The third series of French & Saunders, which originally aired on the BBC in 1990, produced the various clips assembled as French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders. Gone With the Wind, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Exorcist, and Dangerous Liaisons provide fodder for Hollywood Read More

1993
Absolutely Fabulous: Magazine

Synopsis: When Edina (Jennifer Saunders) takes up with her first boyfriend in ages, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) finds her role in her best friend's life suddenly reduced even though she's recently moved into the Monsoon household. Even worse, she actually has to show up at work for once -- to attend a meeting Read More

1992
Eat the Rich

Actors: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne

Synopsis: A restaurant worker (Lanah Pellay) is fired from a posh London eatery, so the man returns with a band of terrorists, who have their own ideas about how to run a restaurant, and they begin feeding new customers with old customers. Motorhead provides the music. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/22/88
The Supergrass

Actors: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Keith Allen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy that wobbles along on a shaky plot -- the first full-length feature of a Brit TV show -- Dennis (Adrian Edmondson) is on vacation with his mother when he invents a tall tale of his involvement with a drug cartel in order to impress a woman he likes. Sure enough, his story Read More

2/5/88
French & Saunders [TV Series]

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: Known primarily in America as the launch pad for Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders is actually a British TV comedy institution that has generated five series and numerous specials since it first appeared in 1987. The titular stars, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, met in the 1970s at Read More

1987
Girls on Top [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

1985