John AddisonFilmography

The Phantom of the Opera

This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's indefatigable "grand guignol" piece The Phantom of the Opera stars British actor...

Shadow on the Sun

Beryl Markham: Shadow on the Sun was a two-part TV movie originally telecast in May of 1988. Stefanie Powers is right in her...

Strange Voices

College girl Nancy McKeon, up until recently the picture of normality, suddenly displays signs of schizophrenia. She hears...

Bride of Boogedy

A 300-year-old ghost looks for a bride in this Disney comedy. While searching, he mischievously disrupts the festivities of...

Dead Man's Folly

Peter Ustinov stars once more as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective. Unlike many of...

Amazing Stories: The Pumpkin Competition

Something in Common

Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers...

Code Name: Emerald

In this slow-paced thriller set just before D-Day in Paris, Gus Lang (Ed Harris) is an American agent who has to make sure a...

Thirteen at Dinner

Agatha Christie's famous Belgian fussbudget detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is called in after a beautiful American...

Grace Quigley

When first released as Grace Quigley, this odd little black comedy proved too fey and quirky even for the most devoted fans...

Strange Invaders

In this subtly humorous, alien-invasion film by Michael Laughlin, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Condon, the aliens...

Ellis Island

The seven-hour TV miniseries Ellis Island was adapted from a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. Per its title, the film is a...

Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story

Most of you know what this is about. For the benefit of the two of you who've never read a tabloid, Prince Charles of England...

Eleanor: First Lady of the World

Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in this made-for-TV biography, first telecast May 12, 1982. The film recounts Mrs....

I Was a Mail Order Bride

Determined to prove that the men who answer advertisements for mail-order brides are nothing more than jerks and lechers,...

Mistress of Paradise

In her first TV-movie appearance, Genevieve Bujold plays Elizabeth, an attractive heiress from the North who becomes the...

Highpoint

Mixing a tongue-in-cheek approach with thriller action, this routine caper story features Christopher Plummer as James...

Danger in the Skies

An airline pilot wages a desperate battle against the alcoholism that is destroying his life and risking the lives of others...

Like Normal People

Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Like Normal People IS the story of a romance between two mentally challenged adults....

Love's Savage Fury

A made-for-TV drama clearly inspired by Gone With the Wind, Love's Savage Fury is an account of a Southern belle and two...

The Power Within

In this exciting fantasy, a stunt pilot gets into a terrible accident and awakes to find himself imbued with the power to...

The French Atlantic Affair

The third of ABC's miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the...

A Death in Canaan

Paul Clemens plays the real-life Peter Reilly, who in September of 1973 was charged with the mutilation and murder of his...

Centennial

The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five...

The Bastard

Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles"...

Black Beauty, Part 1

Anna Sewell's 1906 novel Black Beauty was given its most elaborate and thorough filmization to date in this five-part TV...

Pearl

Adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant from his own novel, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Pearl...

A Bridge Too Far

It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's...

Joseph Andrews

Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel....

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own...

Swashbuckler

A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to...

Born to Run

Two children ride the same pony in this Disney film, but neither one is happy about sharing the animal they both love. James...

Dead Cert

Based on a book by National Hunt jockey Dick Francis, the horseracing thriller Dead Cert was filmed in the village of Findon,...

Luther

Adapted for the screen by Edward Anhalt from the play by John Osborne, Luther stars Stacy Keach as religious leader and...

Sleuth

The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director...

Cry of the Penguins

A great deal of director Al Viola's version of this film was pruned away for its general release. The missing portions are...

Start the Revolution Without Me

Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and...

Brotherly Love

In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir...

The Charge of the Light Brigade

During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders...

Smashing Time

Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's...

The Honey Pot

Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) summons his three former mistresses to his deathbed for a final visit in this engaging crime comedy....

A Fine Madness

Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery...

Time Lost and Time Remembered

It can't have been box-office considerations that motivated the title-change of the British I Was Happy Here to the...

The Uncle

Based on the novel by Margaret Adams, this British drama features young Rupert Davies as David, a seven-year-old boy who is...

Torn Curtain

A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this...

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...

The Loved One

The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...

Girl With Green Eyes

Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl with Green Eyes. She plays a gawky young rural Irish girl who takes...

The Model Murder Case

When a beautiful model is found shot in her apartment, a famous television star is felt to be the murderer in a failed...

Guns at Batasi

Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its...

Tom Jones

Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies...

Go to Blazes

Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and...

His and Hers

This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books...

A Taste of Honey

Director Tony Richardson adapted the screenplay of A Taste of Honey from the "kitchen sink" stage play by Shelagh Delaney....

The Entertainer

Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son...

School for Scoundrels

In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...

A French Mistress

Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...

Look Back in Anger

Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any...

I Was Monty's Double

If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis. The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a...

All at Sea

In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest...

The Shiralee

Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie "swagman," or poacher,...

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular...

Reach for the Sky

One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...

A Private's Progress

The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...

Touch and Go

Touch and Go stars Jack Hawkins as the head of a British family who decides to kick over the traces and emigrate to...

The Cockleshell Heroes

Jose Ferrer was both star and director of the British WW2 drama Cockleshell Heroes. Ferrer is cast as Major Stringer, the...

That Lady

Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of...

Josephine and Men

In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always...

One Good Turn

Beloved British comedian Norman Wisdom made his second film appearance in One Good Turn. This time, nebbishy Norman plays a...

The Light Touch

The Black Knight

Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...

The End of the Road

78-year-old British leading actor Finlay Currie appears in this unexpected latter-day vehicle. He plays a retired factory...

Make Me an Offer

While ethnic humor was pretty much avoided by Hollywood in the politically touchy 1950s, Great Britain continued to turn out...

The Maggie

Originally released as High and Dry, The Maggie was one of the most endearing of the "regional" British comedies of the...

Time Gentlemen Please?

Time Gentlemen Please is a phrase that is all too familiar to British pub patrons; it means that it's closing time, and...

Terror on a Train

Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it...

The Man Between

Young Britisher Susanne Mallinson (Claire Bloom) is visiting the occupied city of postwar Berlin, as the guest of her...

Paratrooper

After causing the needless death of another officer during a near-miss air disaster, a distraught army officer resigns from...

The Hour of Thirteen

The Hour of 13 is a leisurely remake of the 1934 thriller The Mystery of Mr. X. The year is 1890: London is being plagued by...

Brandy for the Parson

Brandy for the Parson is a wafer-thin comedy with plenty of maritime humor. James Donald and Jean Lodge play a young couple...

The Light Touch

Filmed on location in Italy, The Light Touch served as a showcase for MGM's newest female star Pier Angeli. The title refers...

High Treason

High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....

Pool of London

Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast...

Seven Days to Noon

Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of...

The Guinea Pig

Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...