Nigel Terry Filmography

Red Mercury

Actors: David Bradley, Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Ron Silver, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: As three bomb-toting Muslim fundamentalists hold the citizens of a London restaurant hostage, the revelation that one of the terrorists has been researching a little-known Russian explosive known as "Red Mercury" promos authorities to handle the situation with extreme caution in director Roy Read More

Troy

Actors: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fallen in love; however, the beautiful woman who has beguiled him is Helen, Queen of Sparta (Diane Kruger), who is Read More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part III: From Sark to Finish

Actors: Roger Rees, Stephen Billington, JJ Feild, Renata Litvinova, Anna Galiena

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 - The Moab Story

Actors: JJ Feild, Valentina Cervi, Drew Mulligan, Nigel Terry

Synopsis: Iconoclastic director Peter Greenaway begins his most ambitious project to date with this feature, the first in a proposed series of films, television programs, and multimedia projects that examine the contents of 92 suitcases, each revealed by title character Tulse Henry Purcel Luper. Broken into Read More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Episode 3

Actors: JJ Feild, Valentina Cervi, Drew Mulligan, Caroline Dhavernas, Jack Wouterse

Synopsis: The third installment of screenwriter Peter Greenaway's anticipated 16-episode story finds Tulse Luper, the protagonist, whittling away his time in jail. (In the previous episode, Tulse had been arrested in a bathroom just prior to the German invasion of Belgium in 1940.) Without the company of Read More

fear dot com

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier, Amelia Curtis

Synopsis: Terror is lurking online in this thriller directed by William Malone, who also helmed the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is a NYPD detective who has been assigned to look into a string of murders which have taken place in Manhattan, with Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone Read More

The Emperor's New Clothes

Actors: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Nigel Terry

Synopsis: A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy suggests that it was Napoleon's double, not the man himself, who died on St. Helena Island. The film begins by presenting Napoleon after his defeat at Waterloo, at the home of a Read More

Crime and Punishment

Actors: John Simm, Ian McDiarmid, Nigel Terry, Lara Belmont, Katrin Cartlidge

Synopsis: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's evergreen psychological novel Crime and Punishment was given an up-close-and-personal treatment in this two-part British miniseries version, first telecast over the BBC in 2002. John Simm starred as Dostoyevsky's idealistic antihero Raskolnikov, who, secure in his belief that Read More

Far From the Madding Crowd

Actors: Paloma Baeza, Nathaniel Parker, Nigel Terry, Jonathan Firth

Synopsis: Produced for Granada Television and first shown in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre, Far From the Madding Crowd is based on author Thomas Hardy's novel of the same name. Dorset, England is the setting for what becomes a passionate love quadrangle centred around the beautiful but tempermental Read More

The Hunchback

Actors: Mandy Patinkin, Salma Hayek, Richard Harris, Nigel Terry, Jim Dale

Synopsis: In medieval Paris, a deformed foundling named Quasimodo grows up under the care and tutelage of Dom Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Quasimodo is humpbacked, lame, and blind in a drooping eye -- a human gargoyle who keeps to the shadows of the great church as its Read More

Blue

Actors: John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: A year before director Derek Jarman succumbed fully to AIDS, he made his last film. In Blue, the color blue is all there is to see as Jarman tries to bring the audience into his vision-impaired world. Jarman offers his insights on life, love, disease, the meaning of art, and the symbology of the Read More

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

Edward II

Actors: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin Collins

Synopsis: Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play. While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken a great deal of leeway with the manner of presentation. The story revolves around King Edward's Read More

Wipe Out

Actors: Nigel Terry, Ian McElhinney, Derek Brenche, Catherine Neilson

Synopsis: This five-part British drama series starred Nigel Terry as John Fairling, a special investigator for the Home Office. It was Fairling's task to track down a renegade research psychologist who harbored a yen for all things electronic. The villain intended to infect all communications in the U.K. Read More

War Requiem

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes, Rohan McCullough

Synopsis: The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's famed oratorio. Narrated by Lord Laurence Olivier, whose last film this was, War Requiem combines Britten's music with the words of Read More

The Last of England

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Spring, Gay Gaynor, Matthew Hawkins

Synopsis: British filmmaker Derek Jarman combines his standard erotic imagery with innovative documentary techniques in his Last of England. The film traces the decline and fall of Britain as seen from the vantage points of London and Belfast. Old home movies, newly shot hand-held 8 millimeter photography Read More

Caravaggio

Actors: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and Read More

Sylvia

Actors: Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, Mary Regan, Martyn Sanderson

Synopsis: New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner (played by Eleanor David) is the subject of this informative and slightly uneven biography, based on the events in Ashton-Warner's adult life. During the 1930s Ashton-Warner moves to a remote village with her husband who has been appointed to be the Read More

Deja Vu

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Nigel Terry, Claire Bloom, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys Read More

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Windsor is a peaceful town on the Thames where hardly a leaf falls to disturb the silence. And then England's most notorious mischief maker, Sir John Falstaff (Richard Griffiths), arrives from London with his hooligans -- Bardolph (Gordon Gostelow), Nym (Michael Robbins), and Pistol (Nigel Terry) Read More

Excalibur

Actors: Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay, Helen Mirren, Cherie Lunghi

Synopsis: John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as Read More

The Lion in Winter

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry

Synopsis: The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a faraway castle, is "invited" to join Henry and Read More

Highlander: Eye of the Beholder

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Nigel Terry, Katia Douvalian

Synopsis: Richie's new girlfriend, fashion model Maya (Katia Douvalian), has suddenly gotten all the jobs formerly held by her rival. The reason? That rival has been murdered by fashion designer Gabriel Piton (Nigel Terry), who doesn't want to be exposed as an Immortal. Duncan (Adrian Paul) worries that Read More