Michael Kitchen Filmography

Foyle's War: Series 06

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell

Foyle's War: Series 05

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell

Falling

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Penelope Wilton, Micaiah Dring

Synopsis: A weary London novelist looking to escape her failing marriage flees the city for her Yorkshire cottage only to find that country charm can mask menacing intent in director Tristram Powell's tense tale of romantic deceit. Daisy Langrish (Penelope Wilton) has finally broken free of her straining Read More

Foyle's War: Series 04

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell

Foyle's War: Series 03

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden

Alibi

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Sophie Okonedo

Synopsis: The psychological thriller Alibi stars Michael Kitchen as Greg Brentwood, who, as the story begins, throws a surprise party for his wife, Linda (Phyllis Logan). Marcey (Sophie Okonedo), a woman who worked for the catering outfit that supplied food for the party, goes back to the house after the Read More

Foyle's War: Series 02

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden

Foyle's War: Eagle Day

Synopsis: Michael Kitchen stars as the titular detective in this short series of mysteries set amidst the backdrop of England at the dawn of World War II. In Foyle's War: Eagle Day, he and partner Milner (Anthony Howell) struggle to uncover the killer of a young cab driver found stabbed to death in the Read More

Foyle's War: A Lesson In Murder

Synopsis: Michael Kitchen stars as the titular detective in this short series of mysteries set amidst the backdrop of England at the dawn of World War II. Foyle's War: A Lesson in Murder concerns the mysterious circumstances involving the death of a conscientious objector to the war effort. It seems that he Read More

Dandelion Dead

Synopsis: A man who knows the importance of clearing out the weeks in one's garden begins to wonder if the same principles apply to the people around him in this made-for-TV drama, inspired by a true story. Maj. Herbert Armstrong (Michael Kitchen) was an attorney and clerk to the magistrate in the Welsh Read More

Foyle's War: The German Woman

Synopsis: Michael Kitchen stars as the titular detective in this short series of mysteries set amidst the backdrop of England at the dawn of World War II. Foyle's War: The German Woman examines the effects of nationalist paranoia in the normally sleepy burgh of Hastings, where Foyle is stationed. It seems Read More

Foyle's War: Series 01

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden

Foyle's War: The White Feather

Synopsis: Michael Kitchen stars as the titular detective in this short series of mysteries set amidst the backdrop of England at the dawn of World War II. Foyle's War: The White Feather revolves around The White Feather, a pro-fascism group that's gaining some support in Foyle's part of town. But when one Read More

Lorna Doone

Actors: Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the Read More

Proof of Life

Actors: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso

Synopsis: A woman whose marriage is in trouble finds herself falling for a new man as her husband's life hangs in the balance in this thriller. Peter Bowman (David Morse) and his wife Alice (Meg Ryan) have relocated to a small Latin American nation called Tecala; Peter works for an American engineering and Read More

New Year's Day

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille

Synopsis: British director Suri Kishnamma follows his quiet character study A Man of No Importance (1994) with this raucous feel-good suicide-pact comedy-drama. The film opens with buddies Jake (Andrew Lee Potts) and Steven (Robby Barry) enjoying a little joie de vivre on French ski slopes during a school Read More

Hitler's Fixer

Actors: Martin Bormann, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: This one hour documentary takes a look at Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. The film chronicles his climb through the ranks and the way in which he earned Hitler's trust. The film also delves into the more convoluted areas of Bormann's life such as Read More

The Railway Children

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: A Masterpiece Theatre remake of the 1970 screen adaptation of E. Nesbit's beloved children's book, The Railway Children follows the fortunes of three resourceful children in turn-of-the-century England. An affluent family, the Waterburys fall upon difficult times when Mr. Waterbury (Michael Read More

The World Is Not Enough

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench

Synopsis: James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable nations, with control of the world's oil supply Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Andy Serkis, Alex Crowley, Sam Smith, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Kitchen, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: This 2000 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic was originally released as a six-hour, three-part miniseries on PBS. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous hero Read More

Reckless: The Sequel

Actors: Francesca Annis, Robson Green, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: This sequel to the popular TV series finds Owen (Robson Green) and Anna (Francesca Annis) making an impulsive decision to marry. Their plans are thwarted by Anna's ex-husband, Richard (Michael Kitchen), who wants to break up the couple. Will their union survive Richard's dastardly schemes? Read More

Sista Kontraktet

Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Michael Kitchen, Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson, Bjørn Floberg

Synopsis: Based on the novel by the pseudonymous "John W. Grow," this drama is the first feature to examine the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot in February of 1986 as he walked through the center of Stockholm with his wife. Troubled police officer Roger (Mikael Persbrandt) Read More

Mrs. Dalloway

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, John Standing

Synopsis: This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds Read More

Wilderness

Actors: Gemma Jones, Michael Kitchen, Owen Teale, Amanda Ooms, Johanna Benyon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dennis Danvers, the three-part British miniseries Wilderness asks the question "Can a nice Quaker girl find happiness as a sometimes-werewolf?" At the beginning of each lunar cycle, heroine Alice White (Amanda Ooms) transforms into a wolf -- or at least that is her story. Read More

GoldenEye

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring Read More

The Buccaneers

Actors: Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers follows four wealthy young women -- Nan (Carla Gugino), Virginia St. George (Alison Eliott), Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino), and Lizzy Elmsworth (Rya Kihlstedt) -- throughout their eventful journey from America to London. Though they set off Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Armand Assante, Brian McCardie, Patrick Malahide, Gerry O'Brien, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of valor and derring-do is set in the late 18th century during the time that England was ruthlessly trying to vanquish Scotland's bloody bid for independence. Young Scottish nobleman David Balfour would have inherited his family's estate had not his Read More

Fatherland

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Jean Marsh, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: What if Germany had won WW II and successfully taken over Europe? Based on a novel by Robert Harris, this compelling drama is set in just such a world, 30 years after the Germans defeated the Allies at Normandy on D-Day. By this time, the country is known as Germania and since the war it has been Read More

The Trial

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Stapleton, Polly Walker

Synopsis: Franz Kafka's classic tale of Josef K., a bank clerk who is placed on trial for an unnamed, unknowable crime, is given a faithful, if not overly literal, treatment in this drama. Knowing only that he has been charged, Josef naturally sets out to defend himself, but soon finds himself deeply mired Read More

Guilty

Synopsis: Presented by Britain's Central Television, the four-part miniseries The Guilty may or may not have been inspired by a true story. Michael Kitchen, often cast in enigmatic roles, headed the cast as Steven Vey, a prominent barrister. Vey's already troubled personal and professional life began to Read More

Enchanted April

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Josie Lawrence, Alfred Molina, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a Read More

Hostage

Actors: Sam Neill, Talisa Soto, James Fox, Art Malik, Cristina Higueras

Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller stars Sam Neill as a British secret agent who wants to retire--much to the dismay of his superiors, who decide instead to have him killed. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Russia House

Actors: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, Klaus Maria Brandauer, John Mahoney

Synopsis: "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems Read More

Fools of Fortune

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Iain Glen, Julie Christie, Michael Kitchen, Sean McClory

Synopsis: Set in post-WW I Ireland, Fools of Fortune takes place on the huge estate of the aristocratic Quinton family. Sheltered from the economic and political travails all around them, the Quintons are shocked into the Real World when one of their workers is ritualistically murdered. This is but one more Read More

Crossing to Freedom

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mare Winningham

Synopsis: Crossing to Freedom is a 1990 TV-movie remake of the 1942 film The Pied Piper; both productions were based on a novel by Nevil Shute. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Monty Woolley role of the crotchety, isolationist Britisher who finds himself the unwilling guardian of several French war- refugee Read More

Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

The Dive

Actors: Michael Kitchen, Björn Sundquist, Marika Lagercrantz

Synopsis: In this action drama, after putting in a full shift, two deep sea divers return to the deep to perform a quick repair to a piece of equipment and wind up trapped 100 yards below the surface for hours, and before long they are cut off from the lines which connect them to the surface. Frantic Read More

Out of Africa

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her married name, Karen Blixen-Flecke. For convenience's sake, Karen (Meryl Streep) has married Baron Bor Blixen-Flecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). In 1914 Read More

Love Song

King Lear

Actors: Michael Hordern, Anton Lesser

The Bunker

Actors: Susan Blakely, Cliff Gorman, Piper Laurie, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: This exhaustive (and exhausting) 3-hour TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds Read More

Caught on a Train

Synopsis: Over the course of one night and many miles, the lives of three passengers aboard a trans-European train are changed forever. English businessman Peter (Michael Kitchen) finds to his amazement that the friendship he's struck up with a carefree American woman called Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck) is Read More

Brimstone and Treacle

Synopsis: One of the most controversial works by author Dennis Potter, best known for Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective, the searing drama Brimstone and Treacle centers around the heavily troubled Bates family. The marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bates is rocky, and both are suffering under the Read More

Once the Killing Starts

Synopsis: Shot on videotape, Once the Killing Starts received its world TV premiere on the ABC late-night potpourri Wide World of Entertainment. Patrick O'Neal plays a college professor who coolheadedly murders his wife. O'Neal establishes a perfect alibi and goes on with his life. But before long Read More

The Brontes of Haworth

Actors: Alfred Burke, Michael Kitchen, Vickery Turner, Rosemary McHale, Ann Penfold

Synopsis: The Brontes were one of England's most remarkable literary families. Sisters Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Anne Bronte published a collective volume of poetry in 1846, and the following year all three penned novels that went on achieve tremendous critical and commercial success: Charlotte Read More

Dracula A.D. 1972

Actors: Stoneground

Synopsis: Hammer Studios attempted to inject new blood into their Dracula series by setting their next installment in ultra-mod '70s London, where the Count is revived after 100 years by a gang of devil-worshipping swingers led by the not-so-cleverly-named Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame), and later Read More

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

Actors: David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer, Hamilton Dyce, Anthony Haygarth

Synopsis: Writer Giles Cooper's Unman, Wittering and Zigo was first presented as a BBC TV drama in the 1960s, which later was telecast in the US on NET Playhouse. It's hard to tell whether it is a figment of Cooper's imagination, or a means of getting even with the British school system. David Hemmings Read More