Heathcote WilliamsFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Play Author

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City of Ember

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy about two young heroes who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their underground city from being swallowed by darkness. The City of Ember was built over 200 year ago, deep below the earth, where the Read More

10/10/08
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

3/31/06
Hotel

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Read More

7/25/03
Revelation

Actors: Terence Stamp, James D'Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Udo Kier, Liam Cunningham

Synopsis: A powerful ancient relic holds the key to ultimate destruction in director Stuart Urban's religious-flavored thriller Revelation. Since the crucifixion of Christ, the Loculus has eluded the grasp of the demonic Grand Master (Udo Kier), who seeks to find the artifact and learn its mysterious Read More

2002
The Legend of 1900

Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep him. Nicknamed Novecento (1900), the boy grows up on the ship hidden from everyone. His presence is revealed when Read More

10/29/99
Alegria

Actors: Cirque du Soleil, Rene Bazinet, Frank Langella, Julie Cox, Heathcote Williams, Clipper Miano

Synopsis: The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque de Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen in Alegria. Frac (Rene Bazinet), a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression Read More

1999
The Tango Lesson

Actors: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas, David Toole

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Sally Potter, who won acclaim in 1993 with the gender-bending, history-warping Orlando, returns to her dancing roots with The Tango Lesson. Potter wrote, directed, and starred in the film, also assembling the soundtrack, dancing, and even singing the film's final song. Potter Read More

4/8/98
The IMAX Nutcracker

Actors: Miriam Margolyes, Heathcote Williams, Lotte Johnson, Benjamin Hall, Harriet Thorpe

Synopsis: This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet. Little Clara (Lotte Johnson) receives a Christmas gift of a nutcracker doll and that night witnesses toys expanding in size and coming to life. The Nutcracker Prince takes Read More

1997
The Cold Light of Day

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Lynsey Baxter, Simon Cadell, Perdita Weeks, Heathcote Williams

Synopsis: The naked body of a murdered little girl is found in a forest surrounding a small Eastern European town. It's the third case in a row, and local police detective Victor Marek (Richard E. Grant) is on the killer's trail, but his superior, Novak (James Laurenson), needs to solve the crime quickly in Read More

1995
Blue Juice

Actors: Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor, Peter Gunn

Synopsis: Hey all you gremmies! Let's wax up our boards, load up the woodie and hit the beach for a big day of surfing in ... Cornwall, England? Blue Juice takes a look at a small but hardy group of British surfing enthusiasts who have learned to make the best of the flat waves and low tides of their Read More

1995
The Steal

Actors: Alfred Molina, Helen Slater, Peter Bowles, Dinsdale Landen, Heathcote Williams

Synopsis: In this comic British caper film, an LA computer whiz finds herself recruited by an eccentric British lawyer who wants her to use her skills to defraud a powerful London bank that has been using its money to exploit a Third World country for tourism. She accepts his offer and mayhem ensues. Read More

1995
The Browning Version

Actors: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty Read More

1994
Orlando

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story Read More

1992
Little Dorrit

Actors: Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Sarah Pickering, Joan Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first part, subtitled "Nobody's Fault," introduced us to Read More

10/21/88
Stormy Monday

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, Prunella Gee, James Cosmo

Synopsis: Stormy Monday is a four-person character study in which style is all that matters. This tautly constructed, deftly executed crime thriller is set in economically depressed Newcastle England. Sting plays Finney, a relatively honest Newcastle jazz-club owner who crosses the path of crass American Read More

4/22/88
Wish You Were Here

Actors: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin, Geoffrey Hutchings

Synopsis: The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British seaside community of the 1950s, where the local adults are shocked and embarrassed by the libertine Lynda (Lloyd), who dresses provocatively, behaves outrageously, and swears like Read More

7/24/87
The Local Stigmatic

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Guilfoyle

1985
The Tempest

Actors: Heathcote Williams, Karl Johnson, Jack Birkett, David Meyer, Elisabeth Welch

Synopsis: Filmed in 1979 and released publicly one year later, The Tempest is an abstract 16-millimeter feature film based loosely on the "magical" Shakespeare play. Director/writer Derek Jarman also throws in a few Shakespearean sonnets when the spirit moves him. Essentially, Jarman uses the material as Read More

1979
Dreams of Thirteen

Crew: Director

1974
Malatesta

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Christine Noonan, Vladimir Pucholt, Heathcote Williams

Synopsis: Enrico Malatesta (Eddie Constantine) leads a group of Latvian dissidents in the siege of Sidney Street. Chief of police Winston Churchill organizes against the anarchist who threaten to disturb the peace to make their demands known to the British aristocracy. Authorities break up the volatile gang Read More

1970