Lesley-Anne DownFilmography

The King's Guard

Actors: Eric Roberts, Ron Perlman, Lesley-Anne Down, Trevor St. John, Ashley Jones

Synopsis: In medieval times, dashing Captain Reynolds (Trevor St. John), the commander of the king's elite guardsmen, is ordered by the queen (Lesley-Anne Down) to go undercover to protect Princess Gwendolyn (Ashley Jones) who is traveling through territory made dangerous by irate renegade subjects. It's Read More

Young Hearts Unlimited

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: Children make the mistake of getting involved in their parents' love lives in this made-for-TV comedy. A group of kids whose parents are divorced, led by Lissa (Jessica Bowman), decide that their folks could use a little romantic help and set up a dating service for single moms and dads -- which Read More

The Secret Agent Club

Synopsis: In this family-oriented action comedy, the klutzy demeanor of a large but unassuming toy seller (wrestler Hulk Hogan) is but a facade for a highly skilled, globe-trotting secret agent working for a super-secret peacekeeping operation. His son Jeremy knows only that he doesn't get to see his dad Read More

Family of Cops

Actors: Charles Bronson

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, Paul Fein (Charles Bronson) is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie (Sebastian Spence) is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two -- the Read More

Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus

Actors: Marc Singer, Tony Todd, Keith Coulouris, Sandra Hess, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: This third entry in the Beastmaster series has Dar (Marc Singer) teaming up with Seth (Tony Todd) to rescue his brother. It seems that the boy was captured by the evil Lord Agarn, who keeps youthful by sacrificing young prisoners. Along the way they meet a beautiful witch who promises to help them Read More

Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: In this final film in the Death Wish series, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) returns to New York City, where he attempts to resume a normal life by proposing to his girlfriend Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down), a fashion designer. However, Olivia runs afoul of her ex-husband Tommy O'Shea (Michael Thomas Parks Read More

Munchie Strikes Back

Actors: Loni Anderson, Lesley-Anne Down, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: The original 1987 Munchies was a PG-rated horror spoof about a monster with an insatiable appetite for junk food. Though public domain was not forthcoming, a sequel, titled simply Munchie, came out in 1991; this time, the title character was an invisible imp who helped unpopular kids learn how to Read More

Mardi Gras for the Devil

Actors: Mike Starr, Robert Davi, Michael Ironside, Lesley-Anne Down, Margaret Avery, John Amos

Synopsis: A killer who strikes only during Mardi Gras turns out to be a supernatural demon (Michael Ironside) who has sought human sacrifices ever since the original festival began as an occultist ceremony. The New Orleans cop assigned to the case (Robert Davi) tracks the demon around the city with his Read More

Out of Control

Night Walk

Synopsis: In this thriller a married woman in an unhappy marriage takes off to get some time alone and finds herself entangled with professional killers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Indiscreet

Actors: Robert Wagner, Lesley-Anne Down, Maggie Henderson, Robert McBain, Jeni Barnett

Synopsis: This is a TV remake of the Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman vehicle, in which a British actress begins an affair with an American diplomat. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Ladykillers

Actors: Marilu Henner, Susan Blakely, Lesley-Anne Down, Thomas Calabro, William Lucking

Synopsis: Marilu Henner stars as a Los Angeles police detective in The Ladykillers. Thomas Calabro co-stars as Henner's new partner, who also happens to be her lover. Together, Henner and Calabro attempt to solve the murder of a stripper. No, the title does not refer to the murderer: "The Ladykillers" is a Read More

Scenes from the Goldmine

Actors: Catherine Stewart, Cameron Dye, Steve Railsback, Joe Pantoliano, John Ford Coley

Synopsis: In this drama, a lovestruck songwriter is invited to join the band. At first she is thrilled to be near the band's handsome leader. They even embark upon an affair and she is very happy until she figures out that he is stealing her song. During the performances, the actors really play and sing. Read More

Nomads

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Adam Ant, Hector Mercado

Synopsis: Nomads is a scary, supernatural horror movie without blood and guts and gore or bouts of eroticism. Pierce Brosnan is Pommier, an anthropologist who has spent years researching the nomads in some of the coldest and hottest parts of the globe. Apparently, his research went too far, because now he Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book II followed the fortunes of Read More

Arch of Triumph

Actors: Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Erich Maria Remarque's novel Arch of Triumph was originally adapted to film in 1948 with stars Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman under the direction of Lewis Milestone. This TV-movie remake aired May 29, 1985. Anthony Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down play the star-crossed lovers whose prewar romance in Read More

North and South

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

The Last Days of Pompeii

Synopsis: This three-part, seven-hour TV adaptation of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 best-seller The Last Days of Pompeii was arguably more faithful to its source than any of the earlier film versions -- and inarguably the most expensive version of all, boasting a 19,000,000-dollar budget and a truly Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud

Synopsis: While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this 1982 TV adaptation was the fourteenth filmization of the Hugo novel. Anthony Hopkins, barely recognizable under mounds of disfiguring body makeup, plays Read More

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

Sphinx

Actors: Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud, Vic Tablian

Synopsis: After a string of hits that included Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978), director Franklin J. Schaffner stumbled badly with this expensive wannabe cousin to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Based on a novel by author Robin Cook, this Read More

Rough Cut

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Patrick Magee, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Notorious international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynolds) is out to steal $30 million in uncut diamonds in this visually opulent, uneven comedy. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis (David Niven) is Rhodes' nemesis. He wants to retire from Scotland Yard but would like to capture Rhodes as a final Read More

The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Wayne Sleep, Malcolm Terris, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is Read More

Hanover Street

Actors: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur

Synopsis: In this WWII romance, Harrison Ford (face-to-face with superstardom from his involvement in Star Wars) is cast as David Halloran, an American bomber pilot stationed in London. During an air raid, Halloran meets and falls in love with beautiful Briton Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down). Read More

The Betsy

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his daughter (Kathleen Beller). The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest Read More

A Little Night Music

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Beginning its several incarnations as an Ingmar Bergman film named Smiles of a Summer Night, the story was adapted by composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim into a successful Broadway musical directed by Harold Prince. This film, also directed by Prince, is adapted from the stage musical. In the Read More

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

Brannigan

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon

Synopsis: This offbeat John Wayne vehicle casts the Duke as Detective Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American detective at large in London. After the requisite culture-clash routines, it's down to business as Brannigan teams with Scotland Yard official Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) to corral a crook who Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 05

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household to a close. So much time has to be dealt with this season that the producers expanded the episode output from 13 to 16 hour-long episodes. And because virtually every one of Read More

The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 04

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a time of great anxiety and upheaval for England in general and the Bellamy household at 165 Eaton Place in particular. The season begins as Hazel Bellamy (Meg Wynn Owen), wife Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 03

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The third season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs sweeps past the Edwardian era to cover the pre-war years between 1912 and 1914. Because actress Rachel Gurney had already announced her intention to leave the series, the producers decided to provide the character of Lady Marjorie Read More

From Beyond the Grave

Actors: Ian Bannen, Ian Carmichael, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Ian Ogilvy, Donald Pleasence, Nyree Dawn Porter, David Warner

Synopsis: The multipart From Beyond the Grave features Peter Cushing as the owner of a sinister antique shop. Utilizing the various artifacts in his establishment, Cushing metes out retribution to customers who try to bamboozle him. The quartet of horror playlets included herein are "The Gate Crasher," "An Read More

Scalawag

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely on the memory of a boozy, uncooperative parrot if he is to find the location of a tremendous treasure. He is later assisted by two plucky youths who help him battle it out Read More

Countess Dracula

Actors: Nike Arrighi, Patience Collier, Maurice Denham, Lesley-Anne Down, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Eles

Synopsis: Polish actress Ingrid Pitt became a cult figure for her portrayal of the notorious Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory in this Hammer horror film. Bathory finds that bathing in the blood of virgins restores her youthful beauty, and she enlists her servant (Nigel Green in a standout performance) Read More

Pope Joan

Actors: John Arineri, Neville Aurelius, Lorain Bertorelli, Ion Grafini, Sheelah Wilcocks, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict III -- in this rambling saga directed by Michael Anderson. The British version of the film has been cut, not only removing twenty-one minutes of the film Read More

All the Right Noises

Actors: Gareth Wright, Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey, Judy Carne, John Standing, Roy Herrick

Synopsis: Tom Bell plays a disgruntled young Brit who becomes bored by his job and his marriage. Bell impulsively launches an affair with 15-year-old actress Olivia Hussey. But fear not: this isn't going to be "The Joey Buttafuco Story". Rather, both Bell and Hussey are brought to their senses when she Read More

Best of Upstairs Downstairs

Assault

Actors: Jan Butlin, Anabel Littledale, Siobhan Quinlan

Synopsis: Someone is sexually assaulting and (usually) killing the students of a girls' school. There are entirely too many suspects to make the job of the Scotland Yard detective (Frank Finlay) an easy one. The girls' persistent use of the shortcut through the woods in which the crimes occur has only Read More

School for Unclaimed Girls

Actors: Madeline Hinde, Renée Ashershon, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Mower, Faith Brook

Synopsis: Nicki (Madeline Hinde) is a troubled teenage girl who feels guilty about her father's death. Her mother Anne (Renee Asherson) is a lonely woman who falls for opportunistic loafer Harry (Patrick Mower). When Harry tries to rape Nicki, she stabs him with a pair of scissors. Nicki is sent to a home Read More