Eileen Diss Filmography

Occupation:: Art Director, Production Designer

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

Dead Gorgeous

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Helen McCrory, Fay Ripley, Ron Cook, Lloyd Owen, Jonny Phillips

Synopsis: Based on Peter Lovesey's novel On the Edge, this British TV production is a comic variation on the old "exchange murder" device so beloved of writer Patricia Highsmith and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Shortly after the end of WWII, old friends Antonia (Helen McCrory) and Rose (Fay Ripley) Read More

2002
August

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Kate Burton, Leslie Phillips, Gawn Grainger, Rhian Morgan

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recasting the action in Hopkins' homeland of Wales. Ieuan Davies (Anthony Hopkins) has devoted most of his life to managing the estate of Professor Blathwaite (Leslie Phillips); while he's generally Read More

1996
The Best of Friends

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Patrick McGoohan

1991
Jeeves & Wooster [TV Series]

Crew: Production Designer

1990
A Handful of Dust

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's Read More

6/24/88
84 Charing Cross Road

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean de Baer, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Read More

2/13/87
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, James Read, Bruce Davison, Anne Francis, Tony J. Peck

Synopsis: Originally shown in two parts, this massive TV movie adaptation of C. David Heymann's biography stars Farrah Fawcett as Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. With two failed marriages to her credit, 29-year-old Barbara marries film idol Cary Grant (James Read), the first man who loves her for herself Read More

1987
Porterhouse Blue

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Tim Preece, Roy Evans, John Rogan, Earl Rhodes, Bob Goody

Synopsis: Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in Read More

1987
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and Read More

1985
Secret Places

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Marie-Therese Relin, Tara Mac Gowran, Claudine Auger, Jenny Agutter, Cassie Stuart

Synopsis: In this film, set in a British girls school just before the outbreak of WW II, two young girls build a beautiful friendship despite their disparate backgrounds. Their teachers disapprove of their close relationship and try to discourage it, which suggests to the viewer that they suspect a lesbian Read More

1984
Betrayal

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge

Synopsis: Director David Jones adapted Harold Pinter's play of the same name -- with the help of Pinter himself -- to better fit this chronologically reversed drama of love and betrayal to the medium of film. The action starts with a scene in a London pub in which Jerry (Jeremy Irons) and Emma (Patricia Hodge Read More

1983
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Terence Rigby, Joe Melia

Synopsis: Based on a Sherlock Holmes story, the Sign of Four is about an ex-convict out to wreak vengeance on an army major (Thorley Walters) who left him stranded in a penal colony while making off with a valuable stash of treasure. But with a flat, dull treatment of both the story and its characters Read More

1983
Sweet William

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sam Waterston, Jenny Agutter, Anna Massey, Tim Pigott-Smith, Daphne Oxenford, Geraldine James

Synopsis: A British-American production, Sweet William is an R-rated movie about sexual relationships that focuses on the flings of an untamed Scotsman named William (Sam Waterston). William has had two marriages and many affairs, and he approaches more romantic adventures without feeling any guilt. His Read More

1979
A Doll's House

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, Edward Fox

Synopsis: This Joseph Losey-directed 1973 version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House marks one of two cinematizations of the story released during the same year. Here, Jane Fonda plays Nora Helmer, the mousy Norwegian wife who eventually turns on her insensitive husband Torvald (David Warner). At the time of Read More

1973
A Doll's House

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Anna Massey

Synopsis: Henrik Ibsen's oft-filmed play A Doll's House was adapted for the screen in this Anglo-Canadian production. Claire Bloom stars as Nora, the child-like "trophy bride" who matures rather rapidly when her husband is threatened with blackmail. Even after extricating her block-headed hubby from his Read More

1973