Kenneth ColleyFilmography

Shadow Run

Actors: Michael Caine, Kenneth Colley, James Fox, Leslie Grantham, Christopher Cazenove

Synopsis: The crime film Shadow Run stars Michael Caine as Haskell, an expert criminal who works with another thief (James Fox) in order to rip off an armored truck. The two distrust each other, but know they need each other in order to make this giant score. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon

Hold Back the Night

Actors: Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock, Richard Platt, Julie Ann Watson

Synopsis: Hold Back the Night is an adolescent drama about Charleen and Declan, who are running away from their pasts, their families, and the police. They are heading towards the Scottish Highlands. They have both been abused and damaged; consequently, they are complex and difficult. On the way, they Read More

Robert Rylands' Last Journey

Synopsis: Ten years ago Oxford archaeology professor Robert Rylands suddenly and mysteriously left the college and the town to embark upon a long journey. His sudden return creates quite a stir, and most of this English-language Spanish drama, based on a novel by Javier Marias, centers on the effect it has Read More

Brassed Off

Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Jim Carter, Stephen Tompkinson, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: Economics and music are the twin focal points of this comedy/drama about a community in crisis. The small British town of Grimley has long been dominated by the coal mine where most of the men work, and the town's greatest source of pride is the Grimley Colliery Band, a brass ensemble that's won a Read More

Solomon & Sheba

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Halle Berry

La Vie De Bohème

Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Despite their Read More

Second Time Around, Part 1

Actors: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Kenneth Colley, Ann Bell, Oliver Ford Davies

Synopsis: In this mystery, Inspector Morse investigates the murder of an ex-police commissioner and discovers that it is linked to a death he looked into nearly twenty years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Prisoner of Honor

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that Read More

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Actors: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Inspired suave aristocrat Col. Claus von Stauffenberg's ingenious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the waning days of World War II, director Lawrence Schiller's historical war drama traces the remarkable events that unfolded as the Third Reich's Operation Valkyrie emergency plan was Read More

I Hired a Contract Killer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was "privatized," complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing Read More

The Last Island

Actors: Paul Freeman, Shelagh McLeod, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Colley, Mark Hembrow

Synopsis: In this somewhat allegorical drama, five men, two women and a dog are the sole survivors of an airplane crash into the desert. The men are as mixed a lot as one could hope to find; the women (one young, one mature) are as level-headed a pair as one could hope to find. Conflict between the men Read More

The Rainbow

Actors: Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell returns to the D.H. Lawrence territory that had earlier served him well in Women in Love. Sammi Davis plays Lawrence's Welsh heroine Ursula Brangwen, daughter of a wealthy mine owner, who is first seen as a child given to literally chasing rainbows. Disappointed that she can Read More

A Summer Story

Actors: Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Kenneth Colley, Sophie Ward, Susannah York

Synopsis: Megan (Imogen Stubbs) is a pretty country girl who falls in love with urban attorney Ashton (James Wilby) in this romantic social drama. Ashton remains in Devon when he injures his ankle and elects to stay longer because of his crush on Megan. Promising to return for her, Ashton leaves Megan and Read More

The Whistle Blower

Actors: Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Felicity Dean, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Superpatriotic Briton Michael Caine learns from his son Nigel Havers, a Russian translator with Government Communications Headquarters, that the CIA might have ordered the deaths of some GCH employees to avoid any security leaks. When Havers mentions that he's thinking about blowing the whistle on Read More

Casanova

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova (1725-1798) in this made-for-television biopic. The teleplay by George Macdonald Fraser (of "Flashman" fame) follows Casanova as his reputation for being catnip to women Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 5

Synopsis: In this last volume from the Treasure Island series, the young Mr. Hawkins and his cohort Long John Silver flee their prison captivity to return to Treasure Island, again searching for the long-lost pirate treasure. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Waterloo

Actors: Kenneth Colley, Valerie Holliman, Dominique Barnes, Hywel William Ellis, Aaron Probyn

Synopsis: Ray Davies, leader of the group The Kinks and one of the most well-respected songwriters in the history of British rock, made his directorial debut with this film produced for British television. A man (played by Kenneth Colley) boards a commuter train and reads his newspaper, glancing at a story Read More

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Actors: George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia

Synopsis: The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 4

Synopsis: Here's another spin-off adventure from the classic Treasure Island story. Volume 4 contains two episodes: "Fugitives" and "In Chains," where the hero Jim Hawkins finds himself in jail with none other than his old pal, Long John Silver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Set a decade after the events of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, this series, produced by the Disney Channel, details the exploits of a reunited Jim Hawkins (Christopher Guard) and Long John Silver (Brian Blessed). Volume One contains the episodes "The Map" and "The Mutiny." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Actors: Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Here's another spin-off adventure from the classic Treasure Island story. Volume 3 contains two episodes: "Manhunt" and "The Crow's Nest." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 2

Synopsis: This spin-off of the classic Treasure Island story contains two episodes. In "The Island of the Damned" and "Jamaica." Together Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver encounter adventures galore as they go back to the famed island. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return of the Jedi

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels

Synopsis: In the final episode of the Star Wars saga, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) emerges intact from the carbonite casing in which he'd been sealed in The Empire Strikes Back. The bad news is that Solo, together with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), is prisoner to the grotesque Read More

The Scarlet and the Black

Actors: Gregory Peck

Synopsis: Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring assignment in a made-for-TV movie. Peck plays Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life cleric who, during World War II, rescued thousands of escaped POWs from the Gestapo. Read More

I Remember Nelson

Actors: Kenneth Colley, Geraldine James, Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis: Kenneth Colley stars in this four-part miniseries (originally produced for British television) which dramatizes the life and adventures of England's best-known naval officer, Lord Horatio Nelson. I Remember Nelson chronicles the great man's life by telling his story as seen by several people who Read More

Firefox

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane. Fortunately the KGB men are as burnt out as Gant, enabling him to abscond Read More

Giro City

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Jon Finch, Kenneth Colley, James Donnelly, Emrys James

Synopsis: Comparatively unknown, the British And Nothing But the Truth is a blistering indictment of government-sanctioned corruption, as well as the "facts of life" of the television industry. Filmmaker Glenda Jackson and reporter Jon Finch head to South Wales, where a farm family has taken on the local Read More

Peter and Paul

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of evangelizing in the Mediterranean region. The 195-minute version of the original TV miniseries begins in Jerusalem four years after the death of Jesus Christ when Stephen, a Read More

The Empire Strikes Back

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker

Synopsis: The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means Read More

Measure for Measure

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Colley, Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis: Vincentio (Kenneth Colley), Duke of Vienna, is a good and kindly ruler, but his leniency has allowed vice to thrive. So he decides to leave town temporarily, putting in charge his stern chief deputy, Angelo (Tim Piggott-Smith). Immediately, Angelo condemns the young nobleman, Claudio (Christopher Strauli Read More

The Life of Brian

Actors: Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam

Synopsis: On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet Read More

Pennies From Heaven

Actors: Hywel Bennett, Kenneth Colley, Gemma Craven, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Herbert Ross' 1981 remake starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, the highly acclaimed British television miniseries Pennies from Heaven was the breakthrough work of acclaimed screenwriter Dennis Potter, a rich drama set in 1930s London that uses popular songs as both Read More

Flame

Actors: Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Tom Conti

Synopsis: British glam rock superstars Slade made their collective acting debut in this downbeat drama about a pop group's struggles with success. In the late '60s, Barry (Dave Hill), Paul (Jim Lea), and Charlie (Don Powell) are musicians who are barely making a living playing pub dates, weddings, and Read More

Lisztomania

Actors: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Veronica Quilligan

Synopsis: This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most outrageous efforts. Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, is awkward yet likeable as the flamboyant piano performer with a bevy of fetching mistresses and groupies, while Paul Nicholas Read More

Mahler

Actors: Elaine Delmar, Claire McLellan, Sarah McLellan, Gary Rich, Michael Southgate, Arnold Yarrow, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell made a number of biographical films of composers' lives including The Music Lovers, (about Tchaikovsky) and Lisztomania. Russell embellished the other films with certain characteristic flourishes, which include a focus on the composers' sexual obsessions, poetically telling Read More

Juggernaut

Actors: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones Read More

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Actors: Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Read More

The Devils

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: The Devils was the Ken Russell film version of the controversial play by John Whiting. The story, based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun, concerns controversial 17th century French priest Urbain Grandier, whose radical political and religious notions and profligate sex life earn him many Read More

The Music Lovers

Actors: Joanne Brown, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable, Isabella Telezynska

Synopsis: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given the Ken Russell treatment in The Music Lovers, which means that there is plenty of music, plenty of passion, plenty of debauchery, and plenty of excess. Tame by Russell's later standards (Lisztomania), The Music Lovers nevertheless thrives on creative and sexual Read More

Performance

Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton, Ann Sidney

Synopsis: Even in an era of cinematic experimentation, Performance stands out as a visually daring major-studio film that deals with questions of sanity and identity rarely touched on in mainstream filmmaking. The elements of Performance certainly looked attractive to studio executives at Warner Bros. -- a Read More

The Jokers

Actors: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through theft -- in this satiric comedy. David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) is a successful London architect, and his younger brother Michael (Michael Crawford) is weighing his options after Read More

The Blood Beast Terror

Actors: Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: Set during the Victorian era, the film stars Peter Cushing as a Holmeslike detective on the trail of a serial killer. The mystery angle is minimal, since we know virtually from the beginning that the killer is a gigantic....moth! It seems that Wanda Ventham, daughter of addled scientist Robert Flemyng Read More

How I Won the War

Actors: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran

Synopsis: Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a cold, dark look at the Good War, World War II. In adapting Patrick Ryan's 1963 novel, screenwriter Charles Wood and director Richard Lester offered a narrative fractured by Read More

Avengers: Don't Look Behind You

Synopsis: Invited to visit the country estate of a renowned historian, Cathy discovers that her host has vanished and that his highly suspicous ward (Janine Gray) has taken his place. Before long, Cathy finds herself being stalked by a shadowy assassin. Will Steed arrive in time to save Cathy from a grisly Read More