Michael GothardFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British lead and supporting actor Michael Gothard first appeared onscreen in the '60s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Frankenstein

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Randy Quaid, John Mills

Synopsis: Filmed in Eastern Europe, this direct-to-cable adaptation of Mary Shelley's iconographic monster tale features Patrick Bergin as Victor Frankenstein, a medical genius obsessed with the secret of creating life, who uses a bizarre cloning apparatus to grow a complete human being (Randy Quaid) from Read More

1993
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Actors: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward, Robert Davi

Synopsis: John Glen directed this throwback to the costume dramas of the 1930s and 1940s, but without a smidgen of their energy and verve. George Corraface plays Christopher Columbus as a dynamic and muscular comic-book hero. He has a dream to set sail to find a new passageway to India, but he needs the Read More

8/21/92
The Serpent of Death

Synopsis: In this exciting horror outing from Egypt, an archaeologist unwittingly becomes a time traveler after he unearths an old statue of Alexander the Great. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Out of Time

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Camilla More, Spiros Focas, Michael Gothard, Michael Russo

1989
Going Undercover

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

Synopsis: A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a Read More

6/17/88
Jack the Ripper

Actors: Armand Assante, Ken Bones, Michael Gothard, Richard Morant, Michael Caine

Synopsis: TheTV movie Jack the Ripper endeavors to shed new light on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in history. The Ripper, of course, was the London serial killer who, in 1888, killed and disemboweled five prostitutes. Michael Caine stars not as the Ripper but as a Scotland-Yard inspector who is Read More

1988
Sleep Well, My Love

Actors: Mark Burns, Fiona Curzon, Norman Bowler, Michael Gothard

Synopsis: In this somewhat tasteless romantic comedy, a feuding but very wealthy married couple are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. The husband hires a hitman to kill his wife, while his adulterous wife is trying to persuade one of her many lovers to do her husband in. Read More

1987
Lifeforce

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

1985
Ivanhoe

Actors: James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Olivia Hussey, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: The classic adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, which covers the same ground as the various Robin Hood legends, becomes this impressive television production, boasting a well-heeled British cast, a robust pace, and solid production values. Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Anthony Andrews) is a young Saxon Read More

1982
For Your Eyes Only

Actors: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover

Synopsis: For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the story and maintaining suspense. Roger Moore is back as Secret Agent 007, this time on the trail of Soviet spies while he romances the beautiful Melina, played by Carole Bouquet. Richard Maibaum Read More

1981
The Warrior Queen

Actors: Sian Phillips, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Gothard

Synopsis: The legend of ancient British queen Boudicca (more popularly known as Boadicea) was vividly reenacted in this six-episode British drama series. Sian Philips starred as the fearless Boudicca, who with a loyal band of followers (200,000 or thereabouts, according to the historian Tacitus) valiantly Read More

1978
Warlords of Atlantis

Actors: Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, Lea Brodie, Michael Gothard

Synopsis: Also known as Seven Cities to Atlantis, this is a youth-oriented, British-produced adventure fantasy which uses rather ordinary special effects. In Victorian England, an explorer, Greg Collinson (Doug McClure), leads an unlikely expedition to discover the lost continent of Atlantis. Among the team Read More

1978
The Young Warlord

Synopsis: When the Saxons threaten the safety of England in 500 AD, a strong warrior known as Arthur works to bring a number of tribes together to fight off the invaders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
King Arthur, the Young Warlord

Synopsis: The early years of the future King Arthur are recounted in this film from Sidney Hayers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

1973
La Vallée

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: An early film by director Barbet Schroeder, La Vallée stars Bulle Ogier as the wife of a diplomat who embarks on a journey through the jungles of New Guinea in order to locate a rarely seen type of bird feather. During the course of her quest, she meets up with a group of free-spirited hippies who Read More

1972
The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

1971
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

1971
Who Slew Auntie Roo?

Actors: Jacqueline Cowper, Charlotte Sayce, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the woman is hiding a disturbing secret. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Scream and Scream Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks

Synopsis: Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a heart attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to find limbs missing, and later, the body of a rape victim is found with two strange puncture wounds upon her wrist. Read More

1970
Up the Junction

Actors: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Michael Gothard

Synopsis: Based on a popular British novel by Nell Dunn, Up the Junction was a made-for-TV movie in 1965 before being remade for theatrical release in 1968. It features Suzy Kendall as Polly, an upper-class Chelsea girl who decides to relieve her boredom by slumming in a working-class section of London Read More

1968
Herostratus

Actors: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Anthony Paul, Peter Stephens

Synopsis: A disillusioned poet decides that he has had enough of life and begins to plan his suicide. Rather than go quietly, he decides to make a "statement" by making it a media event in this ponderous drama. He heads straight for a public relations company and tells them that he is famous and from a Read More

1968