Jonathan Adams Filmography

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Two Evil Eyes

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Ramy Zada

Synopsis: Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" tells how the wife of an elderly, wealthy man and her lover--who also happens to be the husband's private physician--scheme to control his assets. Dying Read More

10/25/91
The Bride in Black

Actors: Susan Lucci, David Soul, Finola Hughes, Reginald VelJohnson, Tom Signorelli

Synopsis: In this drama a bride, widowed on her wedding day when her husband was shot, investigates her late groom's past. She soon discovers why he was killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Danny, the Champion of the World

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good guys" hardly needs to be forced, since the roles Read More

1989
Day After the Fair

Actors: Sammi Davis, Hannah Gordon

Synopsis: Day After the Fair is a two-part TV adaptation of Thomas Hardy's On the Western Circuit. The unhappy wife (Hannah Gordon) of a brewery owner takes pity on a lonely, pregnant serving girl (Sammi Davis). The illiterate servant prevails upon her protector to write a letter to the London man (Martyn Read More

1987
Revolution

Actors: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts Read More

12/25/85
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Builder

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Crutchley, Colin Jeavons, Matthew Solon

Synopsis: In "The Norwood Builder," an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and produced in Britain for Granada), Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) reprises his excellent portrayal of the famed detective aided Read More

1985
Antony and Cleopatra

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jane Lapotaire, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: Perhaps inspired by the success of PBS' Shakespeare Plays series, Bard Productions Ltd. Came out with this diverting if not very cinematic adaptation of the Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Timothy Dalton plays Marc Antony, while Lynn Redgrave is uncharacteristically alluring as Queen Read More

1981
Richard II

Actors: Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: A quarrel erupts between the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke (Jon Finch), and the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray (Richard Owens). According to Bolingbroke, Mowbray misappropriated government money and plotted the death of the Duke of Gloucester. Mowbray denies the charges, accusing Read More

1979
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Actors: Christopher Neil, Anna Quayle

Synopsis: Here's another the raunchy British "Adventures" series, released on the heels of Adventures of a Private Eye. Christopher Neil plays the title character, a bloke named Sid South. In course of his job, Sid runs up against thieves, would-be spies, motorcyle salesmen, and a bevy of cute female Read More

1977
Adventures of a Private Eye

Actors: Suzy Kendall, Christopher Neil

Synopsis: The British "Adventures Of..." series can be described as a dirtier "Carry On" (if such a thing is possible). Christopher Neil plays the title character in 1987's Adventures of a Private Eye. Neil's life is plunged into peril when he agrees to deal with a blackmailer. To achieve his purposes, our Read More

1977
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Jonathan Adams

Synopsis: This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car Read More

1975