Graham GreeneFilmography

Double Take

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: A man trying to run away from trouble finds it follows him in unexpected ways in this action-packed vehicle for comic actors Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York firm. Chase discovers to his Read More

The End of the Affair

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Heather-Jay Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Sam Bould

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this romantic drama stars Ralph Fiennes as Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who, during World War II, had an affair with Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore), the wife of his best friend Henry (Stephen Rea). Sarah abruptly broke off the romance in 1944, but two years later Read More

Monsignor Quixote

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene, Alec Guinness stars as the title character, a descendent of Don Quixote. After he is appointed monsignor, he sets off with a leftist politician (played by Leo McKern) on an adventure reminiscent of the Cervantes novel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Strike It Rich

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Molly Ringwald, John Gielgud, Michel Blanc, Max Wall, Simon de la Brosse

Synopsis: Ian Bertram (Robert Lindsay) is a mathematical genius who works as an accountant for a multinational firm based in England. When he meets Cary Porter (Molly Ringwald), who recently started working for the same company, Ian immediately falls in love and quickly proposes marriage. Cary accepts, and Read More

This Gun for Hire

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert Wagner, Nancy Everhard, John Harkins, Fredric Lehne, Kristina Loggia

Synopsis: The 1990 made-for-cable remake of Graham Greene's This Gun for Hire stars Robert Wagner as a professional assassin who is tricked into killing a politician who he thought was a New Orleans gangster. On the run, the assassin takes a stripper as a hostage; she happens to be the fiance of the FBI Read More

The Tenth Man

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in this glossy TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man. The scene is Paris, during the Nazi occupation. Hopkins plays a French lawyer who is sentenced to be executed as a reprisal for the activities of the Resistance. To escape the firing squad, Hopkins arranges for Read More

Beyond the Limit

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: John Mackenzie directed this schematic adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling thriller The Honorary Consul. Richard Gere stars as Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a brilliant doctor who has chosen to practice in the provinces rather than the teeming city of Buenos Aires because his father remains a Read More

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alan Bates, James Mason, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Burden, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors contain one of two things--one million dollars Read More

Shocking Accident

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This Graham Greene story is a bout a boy who has trouble moving beyond his father's death. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Human Factor

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a trap. Castle (Nicol Williamson) has a desk job in British intelligence. Around him are heavyweights like Col. Daintry (Richard Attenborough), Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Read More

Shades of Greene

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The short stories of prolific British author Graham Greene were grist for the mill in this weekly British anthology. Shades of Greene featured some of the best character actors in the United Kingdom, all of whom seemed thrilled at playing full leads rather than their usual supporting roles. Among Read More

England Made Me

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Bill Baskiville, Cvetka Cupar, Mira Nikolic, Vladan Zivkovic, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil, Michael Hordern, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene that uses the rise of Nazi Germany as its backdrop, this drama stars Michael York as Anthony Farrant, an idealistic young British businessman. On his way home after a trip to the Far East, Anthony takes a friend up on her advice and makes a stop in Germany, where Read More

Travels with My Aunt

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Olive Behrendt, Nora Norman, Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams

Synopsis: In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish accountant whose life seems to have died stillborn, discovers how to live with gusto thanks to the rough ministrations of his thoroughly eccentric aunt Augusta (Maggie Smith Read More

The Comedians

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

Synopsis: The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the Read More

The Power and the Glory

Crew: Book Author

Our Man in Havana

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward

Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More

The Quiet American

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Kerima

Synopsis: The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). Audie Murphy plays an enigmatic American who comes to Saigon, ostensibly on an economic mission. He meets an embittered journalist (Michael Redgrave Read More

Short Cut to Hell

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, William Bishop, Jacques Aubuchon, Peter Baldwin

Synopsis: As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career with Short Cut to Hell. The film is a remake of the 1942 Veronica Lake-Alan Ladd starrer This Gun For Hire. Robert Ivers plays Kyle, a hired killer who is double-crossed by his Read More

Saint Joan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud

Synopsis: After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook Read More

Across the Bridge

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl Schaffner, a prominent financier who has absconded with company funds. A genius at improvisation, he plans to elude the authorities by murdering Paul Scarff (Bill Nagy) and Read More

Loser Takes All

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Glynis Johns, Robert Morley, Tony Britton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this location-filmed domestic seriocomedy, Rosanno Brazzi and Glynis Johns play an accountant and his new wife, honeymooning in Monte Carlo. With the casino in full view and ready for action, the couple would be remiss if they didn't give the gaming tables a try. Besides, Brazzi is certain that Read More

The End of the Affair

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing, Stephen Murray, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Read More

The Stranger's Hand

Crew: Producer, Short Story Author

Actors: Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Richard Basehart, Eduardo Ciannelli, Richard O'Sullivan

Synopsis: This mystery is adapted from a Graham Greene novel and begins as a British spy arranges a meeting with his son, whom he hasn't seen in four years. They are to meet in Venice, but unfortunately, the spy is unable to make the appointment. The boy then gets a mysterious call from his father breaking Read More

The Heart of the Matter

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott, Peter Finch

Synopsis: Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra Leone during WW II, the film stars Trevor Howard as assistant police commissioner Scobie. While his wife Louise (Elizabeth Allan) is away on vacation, Scobie falls in love with Read More

The Third Man

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

The Fugitive

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: The Fugitive was shot on location in Mexico by that country's premiere cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa. Henry Fonda plays a Christ-like priest in an unnamed Latin-American country where religion has been outlawed. Though incognito in a backwater village, Fonda cannot help but seem more spiritual Read More

The Fallen Idol

Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey, Sonia Dresdel, Jack Hawkins, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey idolizes household butler Ralph Richardson. Therefore, when it seems as though Richardson might be Read More

The Man Within

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from the point of view of seaman Andrews (Richard Attenborough), the ward of 19th century smuggler chieftan Carylyton (Michael Redgrave). Feeling persecuted by his stern Read More

Brighton Rock

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Harcourt Williams

Synopsis: This unsparing, brutal look at the British criminal underbelly stars Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, a pock-marked gang leader. While leading his men in a racetrack robbery, Pinkie kills a man. He convinces pretty waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) to provide him with an alibi, promising to marry Read More

Confidential Agent

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Wanda Hendrix, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Katina Paxinou, George Coulouris

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the source of the Warner Bros. espionage thriller Confidential Agent. Charles Boyer stars as Denard, a former concert musician operating as anti-Fascist secret agent in the Spanish Civil War. While negotiating with the neutral British for some much needed fuel supplies Read More

Ministry of Fear

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Dan Duryea, Carl Esmond, Percy Waram, Hillary Brooke

Synopsis: An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in this shadowy, ominous film noir. Fritz Lang's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel is filled with unusual touches, beginning with the fact that protagonist Stephen Neale (Ray Milland Read More

This Gun for Hire

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Read More

Went the Day Well?

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor

Synopsis: Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film covers 72 hours in the life of the small British village of Bramley Green, which serves as the focal point for an attempted German invasion. Immediately upon parachuting in Read More

21 Days

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan, Hay Petrie

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted 21 days of comparative freedom from the time of the first hearing to the time of trial -- provided he does not leave London. As the three weeks pass, Olivier falls deeply Read More

The Future's in the Air

Crew: Screenwriter

Four Dark Hours

Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: John Mills

Synopsis: Dave Connor (Robert Newton) is a fixer for the London mob, who goes against his boss Terrell (Charles Oliver) for a big payoff at the dog track. Now he's a hunted man with a huge bankroll, and tries to share it with his song-and-dance-man brother Jim (John Mills), who works out of a seedy dive Read More

Orient Express

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin, Irene Ware

Synopsis: The 1934 Fox melodrama Orient Express was based on a Graham Greene novel. In true "Grand Hotel" fashion, an awful lot happens during the Constantinople-to-Ostend run of the titular express. The dramatis personae includes covetous dancer Coral Musker (Heather Angel), naïve date merchant Carlton Read More