Oscar WildeFilmography

Johnny 316

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Nina Brosh, Seymour Cassel, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde's Salome is given a new contemporary interpretation in this independent drama from director Erick Ifergan. Sally (Nina Brosh) is a young woman who lonely and emotionally isolated, despite her beauty. When she isn't busy looking after her ailing mother (Louise Fletcher), Sally works as Read More

The Wonder

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Matt DeLight, Adam Cahoon, Liz Maher, Sara Ortega, Tori Kayal

Synopsis: Adapted from Oscar Wilde's short story The Sphinx Without a Secret, director Sean Boyland's heady romantic drama stars Matt DeLight, Adam Cahoon, and Liz Maher in an abstract tale that's sure to keep viewers guessing to the very end. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Gallagher, Christian Camargo, Noah Segan, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Goduti

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde's provocative classic comes to new life on the big screen in this haunting tale of vanity ripped straight from today's tabloid headlines. As a young man, Dorian Gray's beguiling innocence captured the eye of famed artist Basil Hallward. As the two enter into a close friendship, Basil Read More

A Good Woman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers

Synopsis: One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Manhattan, she Read More

The Importance of Being Earnest

Crew: Play Author

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Josh Duhamel, Rainer Judd, Branden Waugh, Darby Stanchfield, Brian F. Durkin

An Ideal Husband

Crew: Play Author

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

Salome

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Steven Berkoff

The Importance of Being Earnest

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Wren T. Brown, Daryl Roach, Chris Calloway, Lanei Chapman, Ann Weldon

Synopsis: This adaptation of playwright Oscar Wilde's memorable romantic comedy about two wealthy noblemen who begin calling themselves Ernest in hopes of winning the love of two beautiful girls is set in modern times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Richard Kiley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV family film (produced for the Wonderworks series) is based on the famous story by Oscar Wilde. While the Otis Family is enjoying a vacation in an Old English estate, a number of strange and unexplained occurrences lead several members of the family to suspect that the old house is Read More

Salome's Last Dance

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Imogen Millais-Scott

Synopsis: Ken Russell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome, Salome's Last Dance takes the form of a play within a film. Wilde (Nickolas Grace) arrives at a brothel with his lover, Bosey (aka Lord Alfred Douglas played by Douglas Hodge), where the proprietor, Alfred (Stratford Johns), has gathered his staff Read More

Salome

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Tomas Milian, Pamela Salem, Tim Woodward, Jo Champa, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: Salome is a drama that oscillates between Judea in 30 A.D. to a kitsch New York in the 20th century. King Herod (Tomas Milian) is having a hard time. He is worried about the upstart Caesar, he's plagued by bad omens like the wrong birds flying in the wrong direction, and it does seem like term Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Crew: Screen Story, Short Story Author

Actors: John Gielgud

Synopsis: John Gielgud stars in this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic ghost tale. Simon de Canterville (Gielgud) becomes trapped in his family's estate after he runs away instead of engaging in a duel with another man. After he dies, his ghost haunts the mansion; his soul cannot rest until his Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: A 300-year-old ghost attempts to frighten the new inhabitants of his castle in this animated version of the Oscar Wilde story. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sins of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, this modern adaptation follows the trials of a woman who trades her soul for eternal youthful beauty. However, as the woman's appearance does not change, her video screen test ages and decays. This film was made for television ~ Iotis Read More

Climax!: Promise to Murder

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: "Promise to Murder" is a 60-minute TV play adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime." Louis Hayward stars as a moderately successful London barrister who, at the insistence of his aristocratic aunt, agrees to have his palm read by a fortune teller (Peter Lorre). Rather Read More

Play of the Month: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: John Osborne scripted this made-for-TV adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, which charted the rise and fall of one tragically tempted man. Dorian Gray (Peter Firth) is a privileged man who sits for artist Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett). Gray is so happy with the results that he wishes he could look Read More

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This Dan Curtis made-for-TV effort was the seventh screen version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. This time, newcomer Shane Bryant plays the debauched 19th-century nobleman who makes an unholy pact permitting him eternal youth and good looks. His multitudinous sins--and his actual Read More

Salome

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: This experimental film by the maverick Italian director Carmelo Bene is a free adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play Salome and is even more irreverent than the original. In this film, Bene carries the New Testament story beyond the incident with Herod, and pictures Christ nailing himself to the cross Read More

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally youthful in appearance. His portrait is being Read More

An Ideal Husband

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: A made-for-TV production of one of Oscar Wilde's peerless stage comedies, this frothy satire concerns Lord Arthur Goring and his close friend Sir Robert Chiltern. Arthur is a wealthy but unambitious man who is proudly lazy and uses his not inconsiderable knowledge and wit for no profitable Read More

The U.S. Steel Hour: Who's Earnest?

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Dorothy Collins, Edward Mulhare, Martyn Green, David Atkinson, Edith King

Synopsis: The prestigious CBS dramatic anthology The U.S. Steel Hour digressed from its usual format to present this lively musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest. The story, about two love struck young men who both pretend to bear the name of Earnest Read More

Omnibus: Salome

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: Best known in 1955 as a sultry singer, Eartha Kitt returned to her dancing roots in this hour-long TV adaptation of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome. In one of his earliest TV appearance, Martin Landau costars as the prophet Jokanaan, better known as John the Baptist. When he denounces King Herod Read More

Salome

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Charles Laughton

Synopsis: "Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a slogan which became laughable whenever a radio announcer would mispronounce Salome as "salami." Using the very sketchy Biblical story of the death of John the Baptist as its Read More

The Importance of Being Earnest

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Michael Denison, Dorothy Tutin, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Greenwood

Synopsis: Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play of mistaken identities stars Michael Redgrave as rich bachelor Jack Worthing. Jack's friend is Algernon Moncrieft (Michael Denison), a poor bloke living on credit. Jack refers mysteriously to Algernon about his country retreat, which drives Read More

The Fan

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still beautiful Mrs. Erlynne (Madeleine Carroll), well-known for her romantic adventures, has cast her eye upon Lord Windermere (Richard Greene), who is married to Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain Read More

Historia de Una Mala Mujer

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Alberto Closas

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde might have been amused to learn that his epigrammatic stage comedy-drama Lady Windemere's Fan was filmed in Argentina in 1947 under a title which translates as The Story of a Bad Women. Agelessly beautiful Dolores Del Rio stars as the bewitching Miss Erlyne, a woman "with a history" Read More

An Ideal Husband

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Sr., Hugh Williams, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is a fine and upstanding British gentleman who has distinguished himself in the political arena and is selflessly devoted to his wife (Diana Wynyard). However, it turns out Read More

Una Mujer Sin Importancia

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Mecha Ortiz, Golde Flami

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic stage comedy A Woman of No Importance is translated into Spanish with remarkable fidelity in the Argentine Una Mujer Sin Importancia. The action is moved to provincial Cordoba, where the elegant protagonists go through Wilde's time-honored plotline paces. The plot Read More

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: The Picture of Dorian Gray was writer/director Albert E. Lewin's fascinating follow-up to his expressive-esoterica masterpiece The Moon and Sixpence. Hurd Hatfield essays the title character, a London aristocrat who would sell his soul to remain handsome and young--and, in a manner of speaking, he Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan, Peter Lawford, Una O'Connor, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: The whimsical Oscar Wilde fantasy yarn The Canterville Ghost is updated to WW2 in this economical but attractively produced MGM filmization. Charles Laughton plays Sir Simon de Canterville, a feckless 17th century British aristocrat who, after proving himself a coward on the field of honor, is Read More

Flesh and Fantasy

Crew: Book Author, Short Story Author

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

Ein Idealer Gatte

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Helm, Annie Markart, Georg Alexander, Paul Henckels

Synopsis: Though the witty, epigrammatic style of Oscar Wilde would seem best suited to the rhythms of the English language, a surprising number of Wilde's plays and short stories were filmed in Europe. The German Ein Idealer Gatte is a fairly faithful adaptation of Wilde's 1895 play An Ideal Husband. The Read More

Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung

Crew: Play Author, Short Story Author

Actors: Hans Leibelt, Käthe Dorsch, Friedrich Kayssler, Marianne Hoppe

Synopsis: Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung was adapted by Thea von Harbou from the 1893 Oscar Wilde comedy A Woman of No Importance. Though updated to the 1930s, the story, concerning a reconciliation between an estranged father and son as orchestrated by an "unimportant" woman, remains the same. Perhaps Wilde had Read More

Lady Windermere's Fan

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Ronald Colman, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director Ernst Lubitsch substitutes verbal wit for the visual variety in his 1925 filmization of Lady Windermere's Fan. Ronald Colman has one of his first important screen roles as Read More

Salome

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel de Brulier, Earl Schenck

Synopsis: Seeking to bring High Art to the American hinterlands, silent film star Alla Nazimova sank a great deal of her own money into her 1922 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Art director Natacha Rambova (notorious as the contentious second wife of Rudolph Valentino) based her set designs on the works Read More

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The first British screen version of Oscar Wilde's classic novel of the libertine who remains perpetually young while his portrait registers the ravages of a dissolute life, this six-reel production from director Fred W. Durrant was dismissed as rather stodgy. The British-born, German-raised Henry Read More