Jonathan Pryce Filmography

Born:: June 1, 1947 in Hollywell, North Wales
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Welsh native Jonathan Pryce switched from art studies to acting after winning a RADA scholarship, and quickly became both a critically viable and immediately recognizable screen presence. In numerous screen assignments, Pryce's subtle intensity and mania - deftly but not deeply buried beneath a...Read More

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Leatherheads

Actors: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney pulls double duty once again in this sports-oriented romantic comedy set against the formation of professional football in the 1920s. Dodge Connelly (Clooney) is a brash and handsome gridiron giant who is equally comfortable leading his team in a Read More

4/4/08
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: Director Gore Verbinski and the crew set sail once again for this, the third chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is hopelessly trapped in Davy Jones' locker after a harrowing encounter with the dreaded Kracken, and now Will Turner (Orlando Bloom Read More

5/24/07
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Anna Chancellor, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Screen star Jonathan Pryce deftly portrays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth in the made-for-television production Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars. Based on an original story in lieu of a Doyle novel, the feature revolves around a group of characters known as The Baker Read More

2007
Renaissance

Actors: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Laura Blanc, Virgine Mery, Romola Garai, Ian Holm, Gabriel Ledoze, Kevork Malikyan, Marc Cassot

Synopsis: In the labyrinthine streets of 21st century Paris, where every move is monitored and ever action recorded, a mysterious kidnapping sets into motion a catastrophic series of events that could ultimately prove the downfall of civilization. The year is 2054, and the Avalon Corporation has securely Read More

9/22/06
Brothers of the Head

Actors: Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Bryan Dick, Sean Harris, Tania Emery

Synopsis: Brothers of the Head was adapted from Brian Aldiss' novel by screenwriter Tony Grisoni, and marks the narrative feature debut of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha), who have structured Aldiss' story as a mock documentary. Twins Luke and Harry Treadaway star, respectively, as conjoined Read More

7/28/06
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) returns to the screen for another round of supernatural adventures on the high seas in this spirited sequel to the 2003 Disney hit, which re-teams original director Gore Verbinski with original screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. As Will (Orlando Bloom) Read More

7/7/06
The New World

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s features Badlands and Days of Heaven, returns for a rare directorial outing with the sweeping period piece The New World -- an epic dramatization of Pocahontas' relationships with John Smith and John Rolfe. Malick Read More

12/25/05
The Brothers Grimm

Actors: Monica Bellucci, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: Two men who have made a career out of spinning remarkable stories find themselves bringing them to life in this inventive fantasy inspired by the creators of some of the world's best-loved fairy tales. Will Grimm (Matt Damon) and his brother Jake Grimm (Heath Ledger) earn their living by traveling Read More

8/26/05
Broadway's Lost Treasures, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Experience the performances that made Broadway history in this release that compiles twenty-three unforgettable musical performances from the Tony Award broadcast archives. Featuring such stars as Harvey Fierstein, Robert Goulet, and Carol Channing in performances from Show Boat, Kiss of the Read More

2005
De-Lovely

Actors: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter compares notes on the play with director Gabe (Jonathan Pryce Read More

7/2/04
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: Following his surprise-hit American remake of The Ring in 2002, director Gore Verbinski took on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the second of recent films to be based upon Disney theme-park rides (the first being The Country Bears). When Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) Read More

7/9/03
What a Girl Wants

Actors: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Pryce, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Loosely based on the 1958 comedy The Reluctant Debutante starring Sandra Dee, the family-friendly comedy What a Girl Wants features popular Nickelodeon teen star Amanda Bynes in her first feature-starring performance after her debut in Big Fat Liar. She plays teenager Daphne Reynolds, who lives in Read More

4/4/03
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Synopsis: Based on the (somewhat darker) novel by Gregory Maguire, the made-for-TV movie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister offers a refreshing revisionist spin on the old Cinderella legend. Having squandered her late husband's fortune, 17th century widow Margarethe (Stockard Channing) moves from London to Read More

2002
Mad Dogs

Synopsis: Pigs from another world are ready to destroy the Earth, and only one mental patient can stop them in this absurdist comedy. Robert (Ian Fraiser) is an eccentric man living in a small British community, who after a stint of psychotherapy begins hearing voices in his head. This in itself is Read More

2002
Unconditional Love

Actors: Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: What's a middle-aged woman to do when her husband walks out on her and her favorite pop star is murdered by a serial killer? Writer/director P.J. Hogan explores this and many other pressing questions in Unconditional Love, a comic murder-mystery he devised with his wife and co-screenwriter, Jocelyn Moorhouse Read More

2002
The Affair of the Necklace

Actors: Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Adrien Brody, Brian Cox

Synopsis: A director of contemporary comedies, Charles Shyer makes a genre leap into period costume drama with this lavish epic based on a controversial chapter of French history. Hilary Swank stars as Jeanne de la Motte Valois, a countess whose royal title has been stripped from her family by the crown in Read More

11/30/01
Bride of the Wind

Actors: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, Gregor Seberg, Simon Verhoeven

Synopsis: Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) delivers this fact-based drama about one of the most fascinating private lives of the 20th century. Alma Schindler (Sarah Wynter) was one of the most renowned young beauties in turn-of-the-century Vienna, sought after as a romantic conquest by some of the most Read More

6/8/01
Very Annie Mary

Actors: Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys

Synopsis: A Welsh woman is belatedly forced to come out of her shell when poor fortune befalls her family and friends in this kitchen-sink comedy. Annie Mary (Rachel Griffiths) is a woman in her early thirties who seems never to have finished growing up; she still lives at home with her widowed father Jack Read More

2001
Selling Hitler

2000
The Game of Death

Actors: David Morrissey, Jonathan Pryce, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, Neil Stuke

Synopsis: Roger Corman revives his tradition of bringing low-budget literary adaptations to the screen with this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, directed by Rachel Samuels. Lev L. Spiro strips the book down to its essence while also devising subplots that are not in the Read More

2000
Stigmata

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: Stigmata is a supernatural suspense story about good, evil, and faith. Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is a hair stylist in her mid-20s who has no strong religious convictions until odd things start happening to her after she's given a rosary by her mother: she begins speaking with another Read More

9/10/99
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Actors: Rowan Atkinson

1999
Commedia

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Susan Lynch, Claudia Gerini, Enrico Silvestrin, Alessandra Acciai

Synopsis: Drawing from Othello and Un ballo in maschera, Italian filmmaker (Claudia Florio) directs this English language thriller. Actress Michela (Claudia Gerini) receives the cryptic offer to assume the identity of another. When she passes, her English roommate Corinna (Susan Lynch) signs up and Read More

1999
Ronin

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. Zeik. In Paris, Irish organizer Deidre (Natascha McElhone) assembles a team to grab a mysterious briefcase from criminals. They are never told who Read More

9/25/98
Regeneration

Actors: Jonathan Pryce

1998
The World's Greatest Concert of Musicals: Hey Mr. Producer!

Actors: Julie Andrews, Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce, Bernadette Peters, Stephen Sondheim

1998
Tomorrow Never Dies

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive Read More

11/19/97
David

Actors: Leonard Nimoy

Synopsis: This made-for-tv relgious epic relates the life story of David, one of the Bible's most fascinating figures. David's life included a passionate affair with Bathsheba, an odds-defying defeat of Goliath, to a struggle with King Saul. This film, co-starring Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy, and Sheryl Read More

1997
Behind the Lines

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen

Synopsis: This period drama was based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by author Pat Barker, one of a trilogy dealing with World War I. James Wilby stars as Siegfried Sassoon, the real-life war hero and poet who, in 1917, writes a statement against the war that is read in Parliament. Faced with the choice Read More

1997
Evita

Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail

Synopsis: Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes Read More

1996
Carrington

Actors: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers Read More

1995
Deadly Advice

Actors: Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Edward Woodward

Synopsis: A disturbed woman starts getting friendly advice from some of the great murderers of history in this black comedy from Great Britain. Introverted Jody Greenwood (Jane Horrocks) and her bolder sister Beth (Imelda Staunton) both live under the thumb of their domineering mother Iris (Brenda Fricker). Read More

1994
Shades of Fear

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Jonathan Pryce, Dorothy Tutin

Synopsis: This British romantic comedy follows the exploits of a young woman determined to become an aviator in the 1950's. The story begins in the West Indies as plucky Gabriel Angel prepares to board a ship home to England to achieve her dreams of flying. Due to a reservations glitch, Gabriel must share Read More

1994
A Troll in Central Park

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Philip Glasser, Hayley Mills

Synopsis: This animated feature from Don Bluth is aimed toward very young children. It follows the exploits of Stanley, the nicest troll in Troll Land. Unfortunately, the other trolls do not like too much niceness, and Stanley is banished from his homeland by the nasty Gnorga. He is sent to live in New York Read More

1994
A Business Affair

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce, Sheila Hancock, Anna Manahan

Synopsis: This romantic comedy concerns Kate Swallow (Carole Bouquet), who works in a French department store to help support her husband Alec (Jonathan Pryce), an egocentric novelist who insists on peace and quiet when he writes. Kate has literary aspirations herself, but Alec complains that the clacking Read More

1994
Shopping

Actors: Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonathan Pryce, Sean Bean, Marianne Faithfull

Synopsis: Though not as successful as Trainspotting (1996) or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), this high-energy, kinetic crime thriller belongs in the same British New Wave category as those later films. In a decaying British city of the near future, Billy (Jude Law) is an ex-con adrenaline Read More

1994
The Age of Innocence

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

1993
Thicker Than Water

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Pugh

Synopsis: Teresa Russell plays dual roles as twins in this made-for-television English thriller. Based on the book of the same name by Dylan Jones, Russell stars as twin sisters Debbie and Jo. When Jo is killed in a car accident, twin Debbie assumes her sister's life and family, making everyone suspicious Read More

1993
Barbarians at the Gate

Actors: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: This TV movie recounts the true-life story of a corporate takeover in the greed-driven 1980s. James Garner is F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR-Nabisco. Having just been burned by an expensive failure of a smokeless cigarette product, Johnson doesn't wish to incur the wrath of the stockholders. He Read More

1993
Glengarry Glen Ross

Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales Read More

9/30/92
Freddie as F.R.O.7

Actors: John Sessions, Billie Whitelaw, Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: A steamer trunk full of the voices of British acting greats (Ben Kingsley, Billie Whitelaw, Michael Hordern, Brian Blessed, and Jonathan Pryce) enliven this absurd pop-cartoon parody of the James Bond films. In a prologue taking place in a faraway time, a widowed magician-king (voice of Michael Hordern Read More

8/28/92
The Rachel Papers

Actors: Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce, James Spader

Synopsis: A teen sex comedy derived from the arch debut novel of author Martin Amis by debut director Damian Harris (son of actor Richard Harris). Dexter Fletcher stars as Charles Highway, a 19-year-old computer nerd in London who has created a program that will allegedly guide him through the process of Read More

5/12/89
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning Read More

3/10/89
The Man from the Pru

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Anna Massey, Susannah York

Synopsis: In this fact-based drama, a British man accused of his wife's murder becomes the target of his friends' and neighbors' wrath. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Consuming Passions

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, Tyler Butterworth, Freddie Jones, Sammi Davis

Synopsis: A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive (Tyler Butterworth) who accidentally knocks three workers into a vat. The product is an incredible hit with consumers, though one of the workers' widows (Vanessa Redgrave) is considering Read More

4/6/88
Man on Fire

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: An agent newly retired from the CIA (Scott Glenn) agrees to become an Italian businessman's bodyguard in this adventure film. Things fall apart though, when terrorists kidnap the Italian's daughter and the agent must rescue her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

10/9/87
The Making of Miss Saigon

Synopsis: This documentary of the making of Miss Saigon focuses on the inner workings of the popular musical. Behind-the-scenes footage is shown of the worldwide casting search, the creation of the score, rehearsals, set, costume design, and more. Much of the video centers on the frantic search for the Read More

1987
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City bank who picks up a cry of help on her computer. Read More

10/10/86
Haunted Honeymoon

Actors: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this mild farce which is a pale reminder of Wilder's glory days in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Wilder plays ham radio actor Larry Abbot, who takes his fiancee Vickie Pearle (Gilda Radner) out to meet his relations on a gloomy country Read More

7/25/86
Brazil

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild Read More

12/18/85
The Doctor and the Devils

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Sian Phillips, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the project to fruition in 1985. Essentially, the Read More

1985
Martin Luther - Heretic

Actors: Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: The life of Martin Luther is recreated in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Mel Brooks: An Audience

Synopsis: This live appearance by Mel Brooks includes songs, skits and jokes. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More

1983
The Ploughman's Lunch

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay, Charlie Dore

Synopsis: A writer displays a troubling streak of opportunism in his personal and professional lives in this British drama. As the Falkland Islands war rages, journalist and aspiring historical writer James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) is working on a book that will examine the 1965 Suez crisis in a manner Read More

1983
Praying Mantis

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Cherie Lunghi, Carmen Du Sautoy, Pinkas Braun, Anna Cropper

Synopsis: In this convoluted crime drama, a conniving nurse conspires to marry and kill a wealthy professor. To do the deed, she, who has already killed the rest of his family, enlists the aide of the professor's assistant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Loophole

Actors: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: This caper film stars Martin Sheen as Stephen Booker, an unemployed American architect in London who needs to jump-start his finances. Enter criminal mastermind Mike Daniels (Albert Finney), who gathers a group of thieves together to rob an impregnable London bank of millions by coming in through Read More

1981
Murder Is Easy

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Murder Is Easy is one of a multitude of 1980s TV movies based on the novels of Agatha Christie. Bill Bixby stars as an American investor, vacationing in England. While on a train, Bixby strikes up a conversation with the seemingly dotty Helen Hayes, who insists she's en route to Scotland Yard with Read More

1981
The Day Christ Died

Actors: Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: Jim Bishop's minute-by-minute account of the events leading up to the Crucifixion was the basis for the three-hour TV movie The Day Christ Died. Chris Sarandon plays the Hebrew "blasphemer" known as Jesus, who is brought before the beleaguered governor Pontius Pilate (Keith Mitchell). To avoid an Read More

1980
Breaking Glass

Actors: Phil Daniels, Hazel O'Connor, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce, Peter-Hugo Daly

Synopsis: This British rock musical tells a tale older than dirt -- the saga of the rise to fame of an eager young star, only to discover that fame is not all that it is cracked up to be. Hazel O'Connor is a young punk-rocker, singing her angry diatribes on the splintered stages on third-rate London venues. Read More

1980
Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "