Maurice Roeves Filmography

The Dark

Actors: Maurice Roeves, Sophie Stuckey, Abigail Stone, Richard Elfyn, Maria Bello, Sean Bean

Synopsis: Hollywood success d'estimes Maria Bello (Payback, Duets) and Sean Bean (Troy) team up for the 2006 direct-to-video horror opus The Dark - a gothic tale of supernatural terror with echoes of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Manhattanite divorcee Adelle (Bello) and her young daughter, Sarah (Sophie Read More

Solid Air

Actors: Maurice Roeves, Brian McCardie, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Gary Lewis

Synopsis: Written and directed by May Miles Thomas, Solid Air centers around Robert Houston (Brian McCardie), whose life has been turned upside down in his pursuit of his father's (Maurice Roeves) case for financial compensation from the corporation responsible for giving him asbestosis. Rather than doing Read More

Beautiful Creatures

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Alex Norton, Iain Glen, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: In this contemporary thriller set in Scotland, two women, Dorothy (Susan Lynch) and Petula (Rachel Weisz), bond over a dangerous encounter. Petula is being routinely beaten by her boyfriend Brian (Tom Mannion); Dorothy, after having left her unstable relationship with Tony (Iain Glen) Read More

Forgive And Forget

Actors: John Simm, Laura Fraser, Maurice Roeves, Ger Ryan

Synopsis: Aisling Walsh directs this drama about coming out in working-class England. South Londoners David (Steven John Shepherd) and Theo (John Simm) are best mates: they grew up together, they both work in the same construction crew, and they spend much of their free time getting plastered. The problem Read More

The Acid House

Actors: Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Simon Weir, Morgan Simpson

Synopsis: This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremner from the author's previous cinematic success, Trainspotting, which was also set in the author's native North Edinburgh. In the Kafka-esque "The Read More

Grafters: Series 01

Actors: Robson Green, Stephen Tompkinson, Neil Stuke, Emily Joyce

Moses

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The life of the reluctant Old Testament prophet is told in this made-for-television biblical drama. When the Pharaoh Ramses calls for the death of all Hebrew children, a mother puts her son Moses in a basket and sends him down the Nile to save his life. The baby is found by a princess and raised Read More

Judge Dredd

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen

Synopsis: A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in which overcrowded cities are terrorized by brutal gun battles and policed by "Judges," law officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. Sylvester Stallone stars as Judge Dredd, a punishing enforcer Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Fatal Paradise

Synopsis: Wayne Rogers returns as Chicago PI Charlie Garrett, who journeys to Martinique in search of a missing woman. What follows for Charlie is an unanticipated romance--and a murder charge. Coincidentally, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is also in Martinique, and she offers to help Charlie clear his name and Read More

Cheers: Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey

Actors: Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Harry Anderson returns as impish scam artist Harry the Hat. Sam (Ted Danson) enlists Harry's aid to avoid an embarrassing situation stemming from a wager made between Cheers and Gary's Old Towne Tap on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day. Since this may be the last time that Sam has an opportunity Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Chase

Synopsis: After a two-week rerun cycle, Next Generation's sixth season resumed on May 1, 1993 with this first-run episode. The title refers to a competition involving the Enterprise, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Romulans. All four combatants race to solve a genetic puzzle that has Read More

The Last of the Mohicans

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the Read More

Crossing the Line

Actors: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a bare-knuckle boxing match. Crossing the Line's Read More

Hidden Agenda

Actors: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Bernard Archard, Bernard Bloch

Synopsis: This political thriller is set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" and directed in the documentary fashion common to British filmmaker Ken Loach's films. Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) are American attorneys serving on a human rights group Read More

Hunter: Blood Line

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) take temporary leave of the streets of LA and head down to Malibu, there to investigate the death of a thoroughbred race horse and the murder of a groom. At first it appeared that the horse had gone berserk before he died, but it turns out that the Read More

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, Episode 3

Actors: Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Christopher Gable, John Normington, Robert Glenister

Synopsis: In the third episode of the pivotal four-part story "The Caves of Androzani," the planet of Androzani Minor continues to be the setting for a three-pronged power struggle between a mad doctor, a corrupt businessman, and an insurrectionist. The catalyst for all the carnage is a drug called Read More

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, Episode 2

Actors: Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Christopher Gable, John Normington, Robert Glenister

Synopsis: In the second episode of the pivotal four-part story "The Caves of Androzani," the Doctor (Peter Davison) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) have arrived on the planet Androzani Minor -- where, unbeknownst to themselves, their bodies are "invaded" by a supposedly life-prolonging drug called Spectrox. The Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Holmes is Where the Heart Is

Synopsis: While dictating his memoirs, Higgins (John Hillerman) flashes back to 1976, the time of his last meeting with his old friend and fellow British secret agent David Worth (played by Patrick Macnee of The Avengers fame). Unfortunately, David seems to have gone a bit balmy, and is now convinced that Read More

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, Episode 4

Actors: Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Christopher Gable, John Normington, Robert Glenister

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the pivotal four-part story "The Caves of Androzani," the Doctor (Peter Davison) risks his own life to save his travelling companion, Peri (Nicola Bryant), from the fatal side effects of the "miracle" drug Spectrox. In so doing, the Doctor collapses -- and as he lies in Read More

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, Episode 1

Actors: Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Christopher Gable, John Normington, Robert Glenister

Synopsis: Beginning with its first episode on March 8, 1984, the four-part Doctor Who adventure "The Caves of Androzani" marked yet another milestone in the life of the venerable Doctor, played by Peter Davison (at least at the beginning of the story). Arriving on the planet Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Read More

Who Dares Wins

Actors: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. under the title The Final Option, this action thriller was produced and set in Great Britain. The British Special Air Services, an anti-terrorist group, is pitted against an organization of international terrorists who plan to take over the U.S. Embassy in London and hold Read More

Victory

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Werner Roth

Synopsis: John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner of war camp, Major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the camp commander, once a member of the German national soccer team, decides to put together a soccer match between a Read More

Danger UXB

Synopsis: The 13-part Danger UXB was the third presentation in the 1980-81 season of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Based upon the memoirs of Major A. B. "Bill" Hartley, this British production stars Anthony Andrews as engineer Brian Ash. In the early days of World War II, Brian volunteers for the Royal Read More

Twelfth Night

Actors: Felicity Kendal, Alec McCowen, Trevor Peacock

Synopsis: Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian plays. Portraying the different types of love, it is set in a country house of aristocrats and there are practical jokes, poetry and songs that make this a most entertaining Read More

S.O.S. Titanic

Actors: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912. Heading the cast is David Janssen as millionaire John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and Cloris Leachman as raucous Denver dowager Molly Brown, who didn't Read More

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

Young Winston

Actors: Michael Audreson, Robert Lankesheer, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm

Synopsis: This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide Read More

When Eight Bells Toll

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Natalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in this convoluted adventure yarn, scripted by Alistair MacLean. Hopkins is Philip Calvert, a water-logged James Bond. Calvert plays a naval secret-service agent who is assigned to find out why millions of pounds of gold bullion are being stolen under the noses of the British Read More

Oh! What a Lovely War

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented Read More

Ulysses

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Martin Dempsey

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a student/poet in Dublin. Focusing more upon the characters' thoughts and fantasies than upon their actions, it features some of Joyce's previously banned prose. This drama was Read More

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Actors: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This lush and lively Disney adventure chronicles the young man's tumultuous ascension to the throne and his attempts to unite the Read More