Malcolm Bradbury Filmography

Occupation:: Teleplay By, Screenwriter, Book Author

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In the Red

Crew: Screenwriter

1998
Cold Comfort Farm

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Ivan Kaye

Synopsis: Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a miniseries in 1971, then by director John Schlesinger in 1995. That version proved so popular that it was released to theaters in the U.S. The heroine of Gibbons' story, Flora Read More

1995
A Touch of Frost [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This refreshingly realistic British cop show starred David Jason as Detective Inspector William George "Jack" Frost of Denton, whose seeming indifference to orthodox police procedure, his carelessness in handling the paperwork necessary to his profession, and his ofttimes overbearing arrogance was Read More

1992
The Gravy Train Goes East

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: This four-part, four-hour British miniseries was a sequel to Malcolm Bradbury's 1990 TV effort The Gravy Train. Christoph Waltz returned to the role of Dorfman, a terminally idealistic member of the European Economic Council. This time around, the teeny-tiny Balkan state of Slaka hoped to join the Read More

1991
The Green Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The satirical Kingsley Amis novel The Green Man served as the basis for this three-part BBC2 miniseries. Albert Finney headed the cast as Maurice Allington, the libidinous, money-grubbing owner of a quaint British bed-and-breakfast hotel. In hopes of attracting customers, and also desirous of Read More

1990
The Gravy Train

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: The Gravy Train was the first of two British miniseries focusing on the seriocomic misadventures of Dorfman (Christoph Waltz), a new member of the European Economic Council. Embarking upon his diplomatic career with stars in his eyes, Dorfman was quickly disillusioned by the infighting, pettiness Read More

1990
Porterhouse Blue

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Tim Preece, Roy Evans, John Rogan, Earl Rhodes, Bob Goody

Synopsis: Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in Read More

1987
The History Man

Crew: Book Author

1981