Mike Hodges Filmography

Born:: July 29, 1932 in Bristol, England, UK
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Michael Hodges
Biography:: British director Mike Hodges spent many years directing, producing and writing in television. He made his feature-film directorial debut in 1971 with Get Carter. Although he's not known for being prolific, Hodges still occasionally makes films and has a preference for sci-fi adventures such as Flash Gordon...Read More

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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Malcolm McDowell, Jamie Foreman

Synopsis: For I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, director Mike Hodges re-teams with Trevor Preston, the respected British television writer with whom he made a series of documentaries for ITV back in the 1960s. The film also brings the director together again with actor Clive Owen, the star of his previous film, Croupier Read More

6/16/04
Dandelion Dead

Crew: Director

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

2002
Croupier

Crew: Director

Actors: Clive Owen, Kate Hardie, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Nicholas Ball

Synopsis: A man finds his personal and professional loyalties divides by his new career at a casino in this crime drama. Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is a cocky, supremely confident man who wants to be a writer. Jack's long struggle to finish his first novel has landed him deep in debt, and his father (Nicholas Ball Read More

4/21/00
Healer

Crew: Director

Actors: Tyrone Power, Jr., John R. Johnston, David McCallum, DeLane Matthews, Turhan Bey

Synopsis: An ex-con becomes a paramedic in this drama that also contains messages about the plight of the elderly. Nickel has just been paroled to a work-release program where he is to work off his final year in an ambulance service at the local hospital in the retirement resort, Seabreeze. He learns to be Read More

1994
The Lifeforce Experiment

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland stars as a mad scientist in this made-for-television sci-fi thriller. CIA agent Jessica Saunders (Mimi Kuzyk) has been assigned to work in the lab of scientist Dr. Maclean (Sutherland) to gather information. Maclean is doing experiments that seem fascinating and harmless, but Read More

1994
Black Rainbow

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Jr., Tom Hulce, Mark Joy, Ron Rosenthal

Synopsis: British director Mike Hodges brought an extra measure of integrity to this made-for-TV thriller. Rosanna Arquette stars as Martha Travis, a psychic who travels the rural American South with her alcoholic father, Walter (Jason Robards), plying her mystical trade for credulous yokels. In reality Read More

1989
A Prayer for the Dying

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis, Christopher Fulford, Liam Neeson

Synopsis: A man struggling to escape the political unrest of Northern Ireland finds that his violent past still follows him in this drama. Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) is a terrorist with the Irish Republican Army who, while attempting to blow up a British military transport, accidentally bombs a bus full Read More

9/11/87
Florida Straits

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Raul Julia, Fred Ward

Synopsis: Though set in Cuba, the made-for-cable Florida Straits was lensed in South Carolina. The film is set twenty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion. Raul Julia, Fred Ward and Daniel Jenkins sneak back into Castroland to search for a fortune in gold that had been buried during the abortive 1961 Read More

1987
Morons from Outer Space

Crew: Director

Actors: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Bown, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen

Synopsis: In this partially successful Brit sci-fi comedy, four invading aliens cannot really think their way out of a paper bag, much less conquer Earth with their superior knowledge (apparently also non-existent). Of the aliens, Desmond (Jimmy Nail) is particularly thick-headed and leaves Bernard (Mel Smith Read More

1985
Squaring the Circle

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Playwright Tom Stoppard, best known for such works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Arcadia, turned his attention to recent Polish history in this television film about the early 1980s formation of the Solidarity movement. Filmed just two years after the actual events, Squaring the Read More

1984
Missing Pieces

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Ron Karabatsos, John Reilly

Synopsis: Elizabeth Montgomery, the queen of the TV-movie "victims," plays a more take-charge role in Missing Pieces. Cast as a private detective, Montgomery has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer. Drugs and political corruption are also part and parcel of Read More

1983
The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

1983
Flash Gordon

Crew: Director

Actors: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) Read More

1980
Damien: Omen II

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Synopsis: Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can Read More

1978
The Terminal Man

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

1974
Pulp

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Synopsis: A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunited for this comic crime thriller. Caine stars as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels, living in Rome and cranking one noir book after another. King is approached by Ben Dinuccio (Lionel Stander) Read More

1972
The Manipulator

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A film-industry makeup man (Mickey Rooney) goes crazy in Manipulator, kidnapping an actress and holding her hostage on a back lot. The film is R-rated for violence and nudity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Get Carter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: Get Carter stars Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a powerful British gangster out for blood. His brother has been murdered in Newcastle, prompting Carter to declare a one-man war on other racketeers. Carter must also get his niece out of the life she is leading as an actress in pornographic films. Read More

1971
Suspect

Crew: Director

1968