Diana Rigg Filmography

Heidi

Actors: Emma Bolger

Synopsis: An A-list cast, with screen legends Max von Sydow (The Seventh Seal, Hannah and Her Sisters), Diana Rigg (TV's The Avengers, On Her Majesty's Secret Service), andGeraldine Chaplin (Nashville, Remember My Name), highlights this live-action, feature-length adaptation of Johanna Spyri's much-beloved Read More

The Last King

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: When the forces of the English Revolution unseated -- and beheaded -- his father, Charles II fled to the Netherlands, only to reclaim the throne and usher in an era of prosperity years later. This BBC miniseries -- aired stateside on A&E -- focuses on those later years, as the hedonistic Charles (Rufus Sewell Read More

Victoria & Albert

Synopsis: While 18-year-old Victoria (Victoria Hamilton) struggles to escape the rule of her domineering mother (Penelope Wilton), King William IV dies and the teenager assumes the throne as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India. With the help of sympathetic advisers and her Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

Parting Shots

Actors: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (singer-actor Chris Rea). Betrayed by his wife, Harry had his ideas stolen by his best friend Maurice Walpole (John Cleese), was fleeced by shady businessman Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins Read More

The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death

Synopsis: Diana Rigg stars as the indefatigable female sleuth Mrs. Bradley in this mystery produced for British television. Mrs. Bradley learns that her goddaughter Eleanor Bing (Emma Fielding) is engaged to be married, and travels to Chayning Court for a party to celebrate the happy occasion. However Read More

Rebecca

Synopsis: Based on Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel, this romantic made-for-television drama centers on the beautiful young bride of the much older, recently widowed Maxim De Winter. A middle-class lass, unschooled in aristocratic ways, the young bride finds herself at sea in a world where social skills are Read More

Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: British director Nicolas Roeg, best known for his films Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth, helmed this made-for-cable adaptation of the epic tale from The Old Testament's Book of Judges. Starring Eric Thal as the legendary strongman Samson, Samson and Delilah also stars Elizabeth Hurley as Read More

Moll Flanders

Actors: Daniel Craig, Ronald Fraser, Alex Kingston, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Written in 1712, Daniel Defoe's bawdy novel Moll Flanders was given a slick movie treatment with Kim Novak in the lead in 1965, then serialized for British television in 1975. Most 21st century viewers, however, are familiar only with the four-part Granada Television adaptation, which made its Read More

The Haunting of Helen Walker

Synopsis: Previously and brilliantly filmed by director Jack Clayton as The Innocents in 1961, Henry James' classic psychological-horror novel The Turn of the Screw was remade 34 years later in the form of this TV movie, which changes the original locale and several character names. American governess Helen Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Zoya'

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert stars in the title role of this made-for-television adaption of the novel by Danielle Steel. Gilbert stars as Zoya, an Russian orphan who flees her homeland and falls in love with an American Army soldier stationed in Paris. The two settle in New York, start a family and all seems Read More

A Good Man in Africa

Actors: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Lithgow

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned Read More

Genghis Cohn

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Diana Rigg, John Wells, Robert Lang

Synopsis: Many years before, police commissioner Otto Schatz (Robert Lindsay) was an ardent participant in the Nazi experience, and he still cherishes a profound (and secret) affection for Hitler. Now it is 1958, and all that is over and done with. He just does his job in a small Bavarian town in an Read More

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Synopsis: Anthony Shaw directs his mother, Angela Lansbury of Murder She Wrote, in this lighthearted made-for-television adventure. Set in the 1950's, Lansbury stars as Mrs. Harris, a common British woman so intent on owning a Dior gown, that she slaves and scrimps for years. However, upon travelling to Read More

Running Delilah

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Billy Zane, Diana Rigg, Yorgo Voyagis, Francois Guetary

Synopsis: A recently deceased lady spy is outfitted with robotic body parts and is revived to become a super secret agent in this made-for-television sci-fi thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mother Love

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Diana Rigg won the BAFTA Best Actress award for her bravura performance in the British miniseries Mother Love. Light-years removed from her Avengers heroics, Rigg was cast as the ultra-possessive Helena Vesey, who dearly loved her grown son Kit (James Wilby). In fact, she was willing to love Kit Read More

Unexplained Laughter

Synopsis: In this British made-for-TV movie, a reporter stumbles across an intriguing mystery while visiting in Wales with a friend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Snow White

Actors: Diana Rigg, Billy Barty, Sarah Patterson, Nicola Stapleton, Mike Edmunds

Synopsis: The highlights of this classic children's story are the performances of Diana Rigg as the Mean Queen and Billy Barty as Biddy the Dwarf. The seven-year-old Snow White is played by Nicola Stapleton, with Sarah Patterson portraying the princess at age 16. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

A Hazard of Hearts

Actors: Marcus Gilbert, Diana Rigg, Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis: Hazard of Hearts was adapted for television from a 1948 bodice-ripper by Barbara Cartland. Set (where else?) in 1810 England, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as the obligatory innocent young lass with a dynamite figure. Falling in love with a Rochester-like Marquis (Marcus Gilbert), Helena is Read More

The Worst Witch

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Charlotte Rae, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Jill Murphy's children's story The Worst Witch is given satisfactory treatment in this amiable film fantasy. The scene is a school for witches, where the head sorceresses offer a liberal black-arts curriculum. Problems occur when one of the students turns out to be too good for her own good. And Read More

Bleak House

Synopsis: This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt legal and class systems that prey on the weak and the innocent. Esther Summerson (Suzanne Burden), a kind and level-headed young woman introduced as an orphan, is the link Read More

King Lear

Actors: Diana Rigg, Dorothy Tutin, Laurence Olivier, Anna Calder-Marshall

Synopsis: Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a stellar cast to support him, in the tale of a king torn apart by the ambition and treachery within his family and by his own pride. ~ Mark Hockley, All Read More

Evil Under the Sun

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular Agatha Christie mystery. When noted stage star Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg) is found murdered while visiting a posh island resort, Poirot is called upon to find the culprit, but given Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Beau Bridges, Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a long-running London and Broadway stage hit, as well as a masterful 1957 film version directed by Billy Wilder. The 1982 TV version of Witness was overseen by Briton Norman Rosemont Read More

Little Eyolf

Actors: Diana Rigg, Anthony Hopkins

Hedda Gabler

Actors: Diana Rigg, Kathleen Byron, Alan Dobie, Dennis Lill

The Great Muppet Caper

Actors: Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie, which was essentially just a road movie. As the film begins, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which Read More

Marquise

Synopsis: Based on a Noel Coward comedy, this is a story set in 1735 at a chateau outside of Paris. The Compte de Vriac is celebrating with some family friends the newly announced betrothal of his son when an unexpected guest arrives--the Marquise de Kestournel. She has been a mistress to the Compte in the Read More

A Little Night Music

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Beginning its several incarnations as an Ingmar Bergman film named Smiles of a Summer Night, the story was adapted by composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim into a successful Broadway musical directed by Harold Prince. This film, also directed by Prince, is adapted from the stage musical. In the Read More

Three Piece Suite [TV Series]

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Diana Rigg was virtually the whole show on this flexible British anthology series. In each of the six half-hour episodes of Three Piece Suite, Rigg portrayed three different women in three separate sketches. The story material, written by some of British TV's top wordsmiths, ran the gamut from Read More

In This House of Brede

Synopsis: Adapted by James Costigan from the best-selling novel by Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede stars Diana Rigg as a widowed, fortyish business executive in search of a more meaningful life. She turns her back on the world of commerce and capitalism to enter a strict order of Benedictine nuns at Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

The Hospital

Actors: Rehn Scofield, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Nancy Marchand, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Jr., John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells Shakespeare's account of events surrounding the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C. The film begins when Caesar John Gielgud is at the height of his power after conquering Read More

The Assassination Bureau

Actors: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) tries to get the goods on shady businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Ivan is in charge of a wide-reaching organization which, for a price Read More

Avengers: Get-A-Way

Synopsis: Several enemy agents escape from a top-security prison, determined to wreak vengeance against the persons responsible for their arrest. When two of Steed's friends are murdered by the escapees, he decides it is time to end the reign of terror once and for all. But the still-imprisoned leader of Read More

Avengers: False Witness

Actors: John Bennett, Tony Steedman

Synopsis: Accused of treason, an agent cannot rely upon the sole witness to his innocence, who insists upon contradicting every one of his previous statements. The cause of this phenomenon is a chemically altered form of milk, which induces people to lie uncontrollably. Steed and Tara attempt to neutralize Read More

Avengers: Stay Tuned

Actors: Gary Bond, Kate O'Mara, Patrick Newell

Synopsis: Greeting Steed after his three-week vacation, Tara asks him if he enjoyed himself. Unfortunately, he can't say, because he has absolutely no memory of the past three weeks. Investigating this curious lapse of memory, Tara stumbles upon a plot to kill Mother -- with Steed in the thick of things. Read More

Avengers: My Wildest Dreams

Synopsis: Several board members of the Acme Precision Corporation are murdered, and Steed is on hand to witness each killing. The culprit appears to be a sleepwalker, but that's only part of the story. Investigating, Steed and Tara trace the clues to a demented psychologist -- who, in yet another twist, may Read More

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the finest of the James Bond movies and also arguably the last truly great movie in the series. James Bond, portrayed here by George Lazenby (in his Read More

Avengers: Take-Over

Actors: Tom Adams

Synopsis: Steed pays a visit to some friends at their country estate, only to discover that the house has been taken over by enemy agents, and the homeowners are being held prisoner. It soon develops that an important peace conference is scheduled to be held next door. Despite the villains' heavy Read More

Avengers: The Curious Case of the Countless Clues

Actors: Tony Selby

Synopsis: Steed is the latest in a long line of aristocrats who have been accused of crimes thanks to carefully planted evidence. He also finds himself victimized by a blackmailer, who uses his ill-gotten gains to purchase works of art. Making matters worse, Steed cannot entirely rely on Tara for Read More

Avengers: The Morning After

Synopsis: This time the villain is a treacherous double agent named Merlin (Peter Barkworth), who uses sleeping gas to elude his captors. Knocked cold by the snooze gas, Steed, Tara, and Merlin awaken in a deserted -- and heavily guarded -- small town. Handcuffed to Merlin, Steed must rely upon his aid to Read More

Avengers: Have Guns... Will Haggle

Synopsis: Much of this Avengers episode was comprised of footage from the never-seen installment "Invitation to a Killing," which was to have introduced the character of Tara King. The plot is set in motion by one Colonel Nsonga (Johnny Sekka), who has stolen 3,000 high-tech rifles in hopes of staging a Read More

Avengers: Game

Actors: Anthony Newlands

Synopsis: Several seemingly unrelated ex-military men are murdered, each while assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Steed and Tara soon discover that the victims all presided over the court-martial of one of their comrades, now presumed dead. Since Steed himself was also part of the court-martial tribunal, he Read More

Avengers: The Super-Secret Cypher Snatch

Actors: Allan Cuthbertson, Ivor Dean, Patrick Newell

Synopsis: Steed and Tara investigate the murder of an agent from Cypher HQ. Their progress is stunted by the other Cypher personnel, who insist that they've never seen the dead man. Even so, someone is leaking secrets to the enemy, and the trail of clues leads to an offbeat window-cleaning service. Read More

The Avengers: The Forget-Me-Knot

Actors: Jeremy Burnham

Synopsis: Filmed during the production break between the sixth and seventh season of The Avengers, this episode served as the swan song for Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). . .and as an introduction to novice secret agent Tara King (Linda Thorson) (Though, technically, it was not the first episode in which Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Hugh Sullivan, Nicholas Selby, David Warner

Synopsis: British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did Read More

Avengers: Something Nasty In The Nursery

Synopsis: An apparent security leak takes on bizarre dimensions when the suspected traitors begin behaving like little children. It turns out that each of the persons involved apparently had the same nanny in childhood. With this clue in hand, Steed and Emma infiltrate a nanny training school, where they Read More

Avengers: Escape in Time

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Several notorious criminals have disappeared without a trace. Assigned to get to the bottom of this mystery, Steed and Emma discover that the miscreants have escaped capture with the aid of a time machine. This is the episode in which Emma, dressed in the "latest" 17th century garb, finds herself Read More

Avengers: The Joker

Synopsis: Having written a book on bridge, Emma is invited to the country home of a fellow bridge enthusiast. It soons becomes painfully obvious that Emma has been lured into a trap, instigated by someone who has a major grudge against her. Brian Clemens' teleplay includes echoes of such earlier Read More

Avengers: The 50,000 Pound Breakfast

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: X-rays of a car crash victim reveal that the man had a stomach full of valuable diamonds. Naturally, Steed and Emma are called in to investigate. They follow clues all the way to the prestigious Litoff Organization, a group of financiers with an agenda all their own. First telecast in England on Read More

Avengers: The Living Dead

Synopsis: The plot of this episode is set in motion by the intense rivalry between FOG ("Friends of Ghosts") and SMOG ("Scientific Measurement of Ghosts"). When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma Read More

Avengers: Epic

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Despite the silliness of its premise, this Avengers episode is a winner all the way, thanks in no small part to its top-drawer supporting cast. Lured to a deserted movie studio, Emma finds herself at the mercy of demented producer Z.Z. Von Schnerk (Kenneth J. Warren) and washed-up film idols Read More

Avengers: Death's Door

Synopsis: During an important conference, a key delegate suddenly runs out of the building and into the street, where he is promptly killed by an automobile. It turns out that the dead man had had premonitions of just such a tragedy, and all the other delegates have had similar premonitions. It's up to Read More

Avengers: Mission...Highly Improbable

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Ronald Radd, Francis Matthews, Jane Merrow

Synopsis: The title sets the tone for what may well be the most incredible episode in the history of The Avengers. Steed and Emma are summoned to investigate when several people and a number of huge objects (including an armored tank) seemingly vanish. The cause of these disappearances is a newly developed Read More

Avengers: Murdersville

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Colin Blakely, John Ronane, Ronald Hines

Synopsis: A motor excursion with a childhood friend turns deadly for Emma when she arrives at the remote community of Little Storping in the Swuff. It soon turns out that every one of the local residents is a professional assassin. Assuming that Emma has been brought to the village as a potential victim Read More

Avengers: Return of the Cybernauts

Synopsis: The Avengers' sixth season opened with an exciting harkback to the classic third-season episode "The Cybernauts." The plot is set in motion by the brother of the man whose earlier attempt to use robotic technology to take over the British economy was foiled by Steed and Emma. Thirsting for Read More

Avengers: Never, Never Say Die

Synopsis: Horror-film icon Christopher Lee guest stars in this Philip Levene-scripted Avengers episode. When British scientist Professor Stone (Lee), supposedly killed in an auto accident, suddenly shows up alive and healthy, Steed and Emma want to know why. Their curiosity is peaked when Stone subsequently Read More

Avengers: You Have Just Been Murdered

Synopsis: An organization specializing in extortion manages to extract money from nervous millionaires by demonstrating how easy it would be to commit murder. The mastermind behind these simulated killings is Nathaniel Needle (George Murcell), who makes it plain that he's just as capable of pulling off the Read More

Avengers: Who's Who?

Synopsis: The Avengers' fifth season came to a rousing finale with this episode. Steed and Emma are impersonated by a pair of enemy agents named Basil and Lola (Freddie Jones, and Patricia Haines). Things get hairier when the two imposters utilize a futuristic brain-transfer device to swap their minds with Read More

Avengers: Dead Man's Treasure

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Steed and Emma attend an auto rally where they participate in a car treasure hunt. But it isn't all fun and games: our hero and heroine are searching for a valuable object, hidden in one of the cars by a murdreed agent. This is the one with the deadly "thrill-ride" sequence, with Emma as the Read More

Avengers: The Correct Way to Kill

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Steed is accused of masterminding the murders of several enemy agents. Calling a truce with the "other side," Steed tries to unmask the actual culprit (who is a member of an organization appropriately called The Third Party), with the assistant of statuesque Russian agent Olga (the always Read More

Avengers: The Positive-Negative Man

Actors: Caroline Blakiston, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: A top-secret government project to broadcast electricity on radio waves is suddenly cancelled. Even so, several people are found burned to death, apparently the results of the aborted project. It's all the handiwork of a disgruntled -- and artificially superpowered -- scientist, whom Steed and Read More

Avengers: The Winged Avenger

Synopsis: A spoof of the superhero craze of the late 1960s, this episode gets under way when several businessmen are found clawed to death. All evidence seems to point to a comic-strip character called The Winged Avenger -- but that's impossible, isn't it? While trying to get to the truth of the matter Read More

Avengers: The Superlative Seven

Synopsis: Invited to an airborne costume party, Steed and six other guests find themselves stranded on a desert island. The castaways then learn that there's a highly trained assassin in their midst. As the festivities degenerate