Michael Craig Filmography

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 12

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Peppi Borza

Synopsis: In the 12th episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Valeyard (Michael Jayston), bent upon condemning the Doctor (Colin Baker) for violating the Laws of Time, argues that the Doctor's videotaped evidence does not correspond with the facts. But the Doctor argues that Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 11

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Honor Blackman, Hugh Beverton, Barbara Ward

Synopsis: In the 11th episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) presents videotaped evidence that he and his companion, Mel (Bonnie Langford), used the Laws of Time to rescue the passengers of the spaceliner Hyperion III from the Vervoids, a species of Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 10

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Simon Slater, Hugh Beverton, Martin Weedon

Synopsis: In the tenth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) presents videotaped evidence which he hopes will clear him of charges that he has violated the Laws of Time. The tape shows the Doctor and his companion, Mel (Bonnie Langford), on board the Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 9

Actors: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston, Honor Blackman, Yolande Palfrey

Synopsis: The season-long Doctor Who adventure "The Trial of a Time Lord" continued on November 1, 1986 with episode one of the story's third chapter, "Terror of the Vervoids" (a subtitle that did not appear onscreen). Still defending himself against charges of breaking the Laws of Time, the Doctor (Colin Baker Read More

Robin Hood... The Legend: Herne's Son

Synopsis: In this installment of the BBC series Robin Hood... The Legend, Robin of Locksley is killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Just before his death, he chose Robert of Hunnington (Jason Connery) to be his successor. Robert is reluctant to assume the mantle, while the merry men refuse to unite under a Read More

Hot Resort

Actors: Debra Kelly, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Berz, Dan Schneider

Synopsis: In this teen comedy, the employees at a posh hotel go to war with the resort's snooty guests. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Stanley

Actors: Graham Kennedy, Nell Campbell, Peter Bensley, Michael Craig, Max Cullen

Synopsis: This film about Stanley (Peter Bensley), a young man clashing with the real world around him, loses its potential for energetic farce and social comedy as many of the scenes are not convincingly delivered - or miss altogether. Stanley's father is a billionaire who is driven to distraction by his Read More

The Killing of Angel Street

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Liz Alexander, John Hargreaves, Alexander Archdale, Gordon McDougall

Synopsis: Director Donald Crombie's fourth feature tackles the problem of out-of-control redevelopment by unscrupulous corporate developers. Angel Street is a row of charming and quaint homes on the shore of Australia's Sydney Harbor. A development company wants to buy the homes, raze the street, and build Read More

Turkey Shoot

Actors: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: This grim, violent Australian production is an artless mishmash incorporating elements of The Road Warrior, 1984 , and The Most Dangerous Game. The story is set in a dystopian future society where all "deviants" (i.e. anyone whose ideas don't jive with those of the government) are interred in Read More

The Irishman

Actors: Michael Craig, Simon Burke, Robyn Nevin, Lou Brown, Vincent Ball, Tui Bow

Synopsis: In Queensland, Australia in the 1920s, a rugged Irishman bucks the encroaching modern age to the detriment of himself and his family in The Irishman. Michael Craig plays Paddy Doolan, an individualistic force-of-nature who runs a team of imposing and impressive Clydesdale draught horses. With the Read More

Roses Bloom Twice

Synopsis: When this middle-aged mom becomes a widow she decides to spice up her social life, even if her kids disapprove. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Night of the Assassin

Synopsis: In this actioner, a priest-turned terrorist abducts a U.N. dignitary and nearly causes an unmendable rift between the U.S. and Greece. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Arena

Crew: Screenwriter

The Fourth Wish

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The principal characters in this Australian miniseries were James Casey (John Meillon) and his terminally ill son, Sean (Mark Shields-Brown). Throughout the series' three 75-minute episodes, James met with formidable obstacles as he endeavored to grant Sean his three last wishes: to get a dog, to Read More

The Company Men

Born to Run

Actors: Michael Craig, John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, Graham Rouse

Synopsis: Two children ride the same pony in this Disney film, but neither one is happy about sharing the animal they both love. James Ellison is rich and wears leg braces; on the pony, she is not crippled. Scotty Pirie is a poor farm boy, and he loves to ride the pony as well. The two dispute the ownership Read More

Inn of the Damned

Actors: Hilary Bamberger, Don Barkham, Diana Dangerfield, Anna King, Nat Levison, Josie McKay, John Nash, Graham Ware, Louis Wishart

Synopsis: This Aussie/Western variation on the Psycho formula is set in the tiny Outback town of Gippsland in the 1890s, where travelers visiting a remote inn are being bumped off by a mysterious interloper. After a perfectly dreary hour or so, wily lawman Alex Cord solves the mystery that somehow managed Read More

The Vault of Horror

Actors: Tom Baker, Denholm Elliott, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Vault of Horror is the first sequel to 1972's horror hit Tales from the Crypt. It is also known as Tales from the Crypt, Part II. It continues it's predecessor's popular formula of using established stars in five witty short horror episodes. The first, "Midnight Mass," shows that having a vampire Read More

A Town Called Hell

Actors: Telly Savalas, Martin Landau, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: A priest--a former revolutionary--finds himself the target of a manhunt in a small Mexican town. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Brotherly Love

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York Read More

Child Bride

Synopsis: Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third title, Twinky). Bronson plays a middle-aged author who falls in love with 16-year-old Susan George. Their subsequent marriage causes such friction with George's family that she Read More

Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Actors: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Michael Craig, Leonard Whiting

Synopsis: Historical accuracy is cast aside in the film version of Peter Shaffer's play. Fueled by promises of gold, Pizarro (Robert Shaw) and his explorers make a third trip across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru. There they meet King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer), considered to be a god by his Read More

Star!

Actors: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed

Synopsis: Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend Read More

Historia de Una Chica Sola

Actors: Serena Vergano, Michael Craig, Angel Aranda, Teresa Gimpera

Synopsis: Ana (Serena Vergano) imagines killing her lover when she is dumped by the married man. Her macabre fantasies continue to the point where she can no longer tell them apart from reality. Ana seeks to act out her dreams in real life in this disturbing story of vengeance and unrequited love. When she Read More

Modesty Blaise

Actors: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig

Synopsis: A popular British comic strip series served as inspiration for this light-hearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else certainly shows the marks of its origins in the mid-1960s. A large departure for director Joseph Losey, better known for brooding interpretations of Harold Pinter works (The Servant Read More

Vaghe Stelle dell'Orsa

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Marie Bell, Amalia Troiani, Renzo Ricci

Synopsis: American Andrew (Michael Craig) comes with his young wife Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) to her Italian estate, where she again finds herself a prisoner of the past: the memories of her dead father, hostility towards her mother, and her strange relationship with her brother Gianni (Jean Sorel). Read More

Life at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) Read More

The Swingin' Maiden

The Stolen Hours

Actors: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: Stolen Hours is the overlong, overglamorized 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a rich, neurotic socialite who discovers that she only has a year to live. Acting resentfully at first--especially towards handsome doctor Michael Craig, who withheld this Read More

A Pair of Briefs

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a wife; the other, her husband who is suing for conjugal rights. As both lawyers are fresh from law school, things in court are often chaotic, and they suffer several fiascoes Read More

The Iron Maiden

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell, Alan Hale, Jr., Noel Purcell

Synopsis: Not a medieval epic, The Iron Maiden is a contemporary comedy. Nor is the title object a torture device; instead, it's new sort of steam roller. The hero (Michael Craig) is an aircraft designer who neglects his work because of his fondness for machine engines. The film's climax is a steamroller Read More

Payroll

Actors: Michael Craig, Françoise Prevost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith

Synopsis: Billie Whitelaw dominates this crime melodrama, not as a criminal but as vengeful bystander Jackie Parker. Parker's husband, an armored car driver, is killed during a carefully orchestrated robbery. The police have an idea of who's responsible, but they lack proof. On her own, Parker goes after Read More

Condemned to Life

Actors: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins

Synopsis: Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he refused to grant his dying daughter badly needed blood transfusions because he had faith that God would miraculously heal her. Unfortunately, the girl dies and now, in Read More

La Città Prigioniera

Actors: David Niven, Lea Massari, Ben Gazzara, Daniela Rocca, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing Read More

Mysterious Island

Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular picturization in the hands of producer Charles Schneer, director Cy Endfield and special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. During the Civil War, several P.O.W.s led by Gary Merrill Read More

No, My Darling Daughter

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey, Rad Fulton, Juliet Mills

Synopsis: In this comedy, the daughter of a British aristocrat is sent to Parisian finishing school where she falls in love with a charming American student, and discovers that his father is a business associate of her own. Paternal trouble ensues when her young man forgets to deliver an important letter to Read More

Doctor in Love

Actors: Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, Carole Lesley

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of "doctor" films that began in 1953 with Doctor in the House. Unlike its predecessors, the chief medico is now Dr. Richard Hare (Michael Craig) and he tends to share the spotlight with a few colleagues, making this more of an ensemble effort. Dr. Hare is in his own Read More

Cone of Silence

Actors: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet. Although he passes a battery of tests, pilot error is the determined cause of the accident. Sir Hobbes (George Sanders) is the Queen's council whose relentless prosecution helps Read More

The Angry Silence

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee, Travers (Alfred Burke), begins complaining about conditions at the plant and stirs up disharmony among his fellow workers. Tom thinks that there's something fishy about Travers Read More

Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

Sapphire

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles

Synopsis: Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portray two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth Read More

Life in Emergency Ward 10

Actors: Michael Craig, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen

Synopsis: This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10. A surgeon arrives from the U.S. with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival, and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. Read More

The Silent Enemy

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig, John Clements, Sidney James, Gianna Maria Canale

Synopsis: The Silent Enemy is based on Commander Crabb, a book by Marshall Pugh. This is the true story of young Lieutenant Crabb (Laurence Harvey), who in 1941 arrives in Gilbaltar to learn the rudiments of deep-sea diving. Crabb isn't interested in recreation, however; there's a war on, and it is common Read More

Desert Patrol

Actors: Richard Attenborough, John Gregson, Michael Craig, Vincent Ball, Percy Herbert

Synopsis: Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol. John Gregson plays Captain Williams, a martinet mine expert who vows to whip a lackadaisacal patrol into shape. This brings Williams in conflict with patrol leader Captain Cotton (Michael Craig), but also earns him the Read More

Elephant Gun

Actors: Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Anna Gaylor, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a young woman spends all her time caring for her ailing mother. The one bright spot in her life is her African pen pal. Her mother finally dies, and the woman immediately sets off for Africa to meet the pen pal. There she finds that he is too busy chasing elephants to Read More

High Tide at Noon

Actors: William Sylvester, Michael Craig, Flora Robson, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: A rugged, isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia provides the setting for this drama. Much of the island is owned by one person, the other inhabitants, primarily lobster fishermen, rent from him. One of the lobster men begins romancing the wealthy owner's daughter and marries her. After the Read More

Campbell's Kingdom

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce Campbell, a British aristocrat who has been given only six months to live. Inheriting a financially troubled Canadian valley, Campbell finds a new lease on life as he Read More

The Black Tent

Actors: Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Anna Maria Sandri, Andre Morell, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to health by a band of Nomads. He manages to marry the tribal chieftan's daughter (Anna Maria Sandri) before getting down to the serious business of fending off the Nazis. Ten Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: In this thriller a woman witnesses a robbery, runs away from the scene and is rundown by a bus. The two thieves, realizing that she could get them arrested, sneak into the hospital where they plan to kill her. Their repeated attempts all end in failure. At the end, one of the thieves, feeling Read More

Yield to the Night

Actors: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Yield to the Night (aka Blonde Sinner) stars Diana Dors as a brassy British nightclub owner who falls for piano player Michael Craig. Jealous of Craig's wealthy mistress Yvonne Mitchell, Dors wishes that the woman is dead. Before long her wish is granted, and Dors is accused of the murder. The Read More

Triple Deception

Actors: Michael Craig, Julia Arnall, Brenda de Banzie, Barbara Bates, David Kossoff

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama, a decent British sailor stationed in France is forced to smuggle gold when one of the gang members mistakes him for their contact who was killed. Real trouble ensues when the seaman is arrested and interrogated by a group of international police. He finally proves Read More

Handcuffs, London

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a man finds a rare stamp, takes it to an expert for appraisal, and finds that it is a forgery. This discovery leads the man to look for the counterfeiter. After grilling three suspects, he finally learns that the art expert was behind it all the time. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Passage Home

Synopsis: A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harbored in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew Read More

Svengali

Actors: Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he out-hams John Barrymore, who'd played Svengali in the 1931 version. A last-minute replacement for the equally flamboyant Robert Newton, Wolfit pulls out all the stops as the Read More

The Love Lottery

Actors: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Charles Victor

Synopsis: David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star who is the "prize" in a lottery dreamed up by his press agent. The lucky lady who "wins" Niven will be able to spend a week in his company. Sensing the silliness of the whole Read More

The Malta Story

Actors: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Renée Ashershon

Synopsis: The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents his photographs to the resident air officer (Jack Hawkins). The photos reveal that the Italians are planning a major invasion of the island. Low on fuel and men, the officer Read More