Oliver Parker Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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St. Trinian's

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Lena Headey, Russell Brand, Talulah Riley, Gemma Arterton

Synopsis: The uniformed but rebellious students of a distinguished all-girls school get an unexpected chance to raise a little hell as directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson set out to revive the characters created by comic artist Ronald Searle and made popular in the British film series that began Read More

2007
I Really Hate My Job

Crew: Director

Actors: Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Oana Pellea, Danny Huston

Synopsis: As the employees at a London restaurant prepare for the arrival of a high-profile Hollywood actor, it quickly becomes apparent that the five women working to make this important meal a success suffer form delusions of grandeur. In the eye of most customers they're three waitresses, a cook, and a Read More

2007
Fade to Black

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Christopher Walken, Paz Vega

Synopsis: A screen legend is drawn into a murder mystery that reaches to the highest ranks of the entertainment industry in director Oliver Parker's 1940s-era thriller featuring a sleuthing Orson Welles (played by Danny Huston). The year is 1948 and, having just suffered a breakup with Rita Hayworth and a Read More

2006
The Importance of Being Earnest

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench

Synopsis: A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentlemen from a wealthy family who Read More

5/17/02
An Ideal Husband

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver

Synopsis: A romantic and sentimental comedy set at the turn of the 19th century, An Ideal Husband delves into themes of love, passion, and betrayal among the aristocracy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), a brilliant politician and a perfect gentleman, is the ideal husband for the charming Lady Chiltern Read More

6/18/99
Othello

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello, who returns a hero after crushing an invasion Read More

1995
Nuns on the Run

Actors: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman, Doris Hare

Synopsis: Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane team up for this bad boy comic burlesque, directed by Jonathan Lynn. Idle and Coltrane play Brian Hope and Charlie McManus, a pair of two-bit hoods who want to go straight, repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and violence in their line of work. In thrall to Read More

3/16/90
Nightbreed

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross

Synopsis: Multimedia horror maven Clive Barker followed the success of his feature directorial debut Hellraiser with this equally surreal effort, based on his novella Cabal. The story involves the plight of Aaron Boone Craig Sheffer, a young man tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling Read More

2/16/90
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2

Actors: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Imogen Boorman, Sean Chapman, William Hope

Synopsis: Horror fantasist Clive Barker, director of the original Hellraiser, maintained creative control over this worthy sequel as executive producer, but was unable to occupy the director's chair due to his involvement on other projects. His creative touch is still quite evident here, as the original Read More

12/23/88
Hellraiser

Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of multi-talented filmmaker Clive Barker, this grim and surreal project is based on the writer/director's own novella The Hell-Bound Heart. The film opens with a chilling prologue in which globe-trotting pervert Frank (Sean Chapman) -- a connoisseur of sexual depravity Read More

9/18/87