Paul RogersFilmography

Born:: March 22, 1917 in Plympton, Devon, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Trained at the Chekhov Theater School, British actor Paul Rogers entered films on a small-time basis in 1932. Rogers' "real" career began when he made his London stage debut in 1938. Following World War II service in the Royal Navy, Rogers established himself as a versatile Shakespearean actor...Read More

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The Return of the Native

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Clive Owen

Synopsis: Unlike the barren and forbidding moors elsewhere in England, Return of the Native's Egdon Heath attires itself in vibrant wildflowers, mossy hillsides, winding streams, arching footbridges, and undulant meadows. An enchantress would be at home in this place, but not Eustacia Vye, portrayed by Read More

1994
The Tenth Man

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in this glossy TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man. The scene is Paris, during the Nazi occupation. Hopkins plays a French lawyer who is sentenced to be executed as a reprisal for the activities of the Resistance. To escape the firing squad, Hopkins arranges for Read More

1988
Porterhouse Blue

Actors: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Tim Preece, Roy Evans, John Rogan, Earl Rhodes, Bob Goody

Synopsis: Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in Read More

1987
Edwin

Actors: Alec Guinness, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: Though we never see him, Edwin is the pivotal character in this British comedy. Alec Guinness stars as a retired British barrister Sir Fennimore Truscott, who discovers that his wife Renee Ashershon has been cheating on him. This is embarrassment enough: even worse is the fact that Renee's affair Read More

1984
Nothing Lasts Forever

Actors: Zach Galligan, Apollonia Van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Dan Aykroyd, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Tom Schiller, best known for the short subjects he wrote and directed for Saturday Night Live's early seasons, made his feature film debut with this offbeat fantasy. In the future, the city of New York is governed by the Port Authority, and aspiring artist Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan) is depressed Read More

1984
The Executioner

Synopsis: The trial of a Jew accused of killing a Nazi is held many years after the event. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Conrad: Secret Agent

Synopsis: This engaging health-and-nutrition project was assembled by the South Carolina Department of Education. Jason Conrad is a private eye whose "beat" is the inner regions of the human body. While on the prowl for clues, Conrad learns quite a lot about proper diet, exercise, blood circulation Read More

1976
The Old Curiosity Shop

Actors: Anthony Newley, David Hemmings, David Warner, Michael Hordern, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: The musical Mr. Quilp was based on one of Dickens' grimmest works, The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its highlight the death of its heroine. The principal character is a villain, a hunchbacked usurer who wishes to take over the business of an antique dealer. Anthony Newley plays the horrid Mr. Read More

1975
Lost in the Stars

Actors: Brock Peters

Synopsis: Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill--which in turn was based on the Alain Paton novel Cry the Beloved Country. Brock Peters portrays a South African minister who goes to the Big City to locate his son Raymond St. Jacques Read More

1974
The Abdication

Actors: Franz Drago, Suzanne Huddart, Liv Ullmann, Peter Finch, Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith, she falls in love with Cardinal Azzolino (Peter Finch), a cleric being considered for the papacy. Greta Garbo Read More

1974
The Homecoming

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant, Terence Rigby, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: In The Homecoming, adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jayston's father Paul Rogers is a washout, his uncle Cyril Cusack is on the edge of senility, and his brothers Ian Holm and Terence Rigby are Read More

1973
I Want What I Want

Actors: Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, Paul Rogers, Michael Coles, Sheila Reid, Virginia Stride, Jill Melford, Rachel Gurney, Anthony Sharp

Synopsis: John Dexter's film explores the struggles faced by a young British man who wants to live as a woman and considers a sex change operation. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Three Into Two Won't Go

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays a prosperous salesman, married to Claire Bloom (Steiger's real-life wife at the time). While on a business trip, the salesman falls for a sexy 19-year-old hitchhiker (Judy Geeson Read More

1969
The Looking Glass War

Actors: Robert Urquhart, Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers, Anthony Hopkins, Susan George

Synopsis: In this Cold War espionage-thriller, adapted from the novel of John Le Carre, two veteran British intelligence operatives, Leclerc (Ralph Richardson) and Haldane (Paul Rogers), recruit a young Polish defector (Christopher Jones) to check on some missiles in East Germany. Avery (Anthony Hopkins) is Read More

1969
The Reckoning

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Lilita de Barros, Tom Kempinski, Kenneth Hendel

Synopsis: Nicol Williamson stars as a Liverpool/Irish layabout who inherits a business from his father. Even in his executive togs, Williamson remains out of step with society. Already a surly sort, Williamson becomes even less likeable as the film progresses, especially when seeking to avenge a long-ago Read More

1969
Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier Read More

1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Hugh Sullivan, Nicholas Selby, David Warner

Synopsis: British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did Read More

1968
He Who Rides a Tiger

Actors: Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers, Kay Walsh, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Tom Bell stars in this tight little British thriller as a mercurial cat burglar. So long as things are going his way, Bell is calm and collected. Let anything upset his equilibrium, and he's an accident waiting to happen. Bell's one chance at redemption is his romance with pretty social-worker Judi Dench Read More

1966
The Third Secret

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: TV commentator Stephen Boyd doesn't believe the official verdict of suicide in the death of a famed London psychiatrist. Boyd tries to get to the truth by studying a list of the shrink's patients. While interviewing three of these worthies (Jack Hawkins, Diane Cilento and Richard Attenborough) Read More

1964
The Stolen Hours

Actors: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: Stolen Hours is the overlong, overglamorized 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a rich, neurotic socialite who discovers that she only has a year to live. Acting resentfully at first--especially towards handsome doctor Michael Craig, who withheld this Read More

1963
The Pot Carriers

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Paul Massie, Carole Lesley, Dennis Price, Paul Rogers, Davy Kaye

Synopsis: In a different type of comedy-drama based on a play by Mike Watts, director Peter Graham Scott looks at life in a British prison. Rainbow (Paul Massie) has just been sent into the slammer for a year for duking it out in a brutal fight over his girlfriend Wendy (Carole Lesley). He knows he is in Read More

1962
Billy Budd

Actors: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp, Ronald Lewis, John Neville

Synopsis: Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd is adapted for the screen, distinguished by Robert Krasker's expressive black-and-white cinematography and Peter Ustinov's crisp direction. Terence Stamp is Billy Budd, a seaman forced to serve in the British Navy during the war between England and France Read More

1962
Young and Willing

Actors: Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, John Hurt

Synopsis: Also titled The Wild and the Willing, this is a British production about a rebellious young man of the early 1960s. Harry Brown (Ian McShane) is a lower-class troublemaker at an upscale provincial university. He is brilliant but frequently drunk, and he constantly criticizes the elitism of his Read More

1962
Condemned to Life

Actors: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins

Synopsis: Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he refused to grant his dying daughter badly needed blood transfusions because he had faith that God would miraculously heal her. Unfortunately, the girl dies and now, in Read More

1962
The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Guy Williams, Sean Scully, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons learned by two disparate and discontented look-a-likes who swear that the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962
The Mark

Actors: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered by sex. After an affair with a woman his own age ends badly, Mark finds himself increasingly drawn to young girls, who he feels do not pose the same threat of emasculation Read More

1961
A Circle of Deception

Actors: Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: A British officer is slated to parachute into Normandy. What he doesn't know is that he is being set up by British Intelligence to be captured by the enemy and reveal erroneous information to the Nazis. Officer Raine (Bradford Dillman) is the unknowing soldier who has intentionally been given Read More

1961
No Love for Johnnie

Actors: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence, Billie Whitelaw, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's hardly surprised; he's been a loser so long that it's par for the course. Treated shabbily by his communistic wife Rosalie Crutchley, Johnnie begins an affair with Read More

1960
Our Man in Havana

Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward

Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More

1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Actors: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a great extent from actual court records, recounts Wilde's late 19th century libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury. The author loses, whereupon he himself is tried for Read More

1960
A Midsummer Night's Dream

1958
The Girl in the Picture

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this thriller, a crime reporter's photograph contains the key evidence needed to solve a murder. It is a picture of a girl, believed to be the only one who knows the killer's identity. Using the photo, the intrepid journalist tracks her down, falls in love with her, and ultimately, saves her Read More

1956
Svengali

Actors: Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he out-hams John Barrymore, who'd played Svengali in the 1931 version. A last-minute replacement for the equally flamboyant Robert Newton, Wolfit pulls out all the stops as the Read More

1955
Beau Brummell

Actors: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald

Synopsis: As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell. Granger plays the famed 18th-century dandy and social arbiter who rises from poverty to become the adviser and severest critic of the Prince of Wales (marvelously portrayed Read More

1954
The Beachcomber

Actors: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: This second film version of Somerset Maugham's Vessel of Wrath lacks the casual charm of the first (which starred Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester), but is otherwise quite entertaining. Robert Newton stars as Honorable Ted, a slovenly, bibulous South Sea Island beachcomber. The black sheep of Read More

1954
Murder in the Cathedral

Actors: Fr. John Groser, Alexander Gauge, David Ward, George Woodbridge, Basil Burton

Synopsis: T.S. Eliot's readers-theatre verse piece Murder in the Cathedral was never truly designed to be a fully staged play, but try telling that to the many amateur groups who've produced it in the past five decades. This 1952 film adaptation valiantly attempts to open up the piece to full cinematic Read More

1952
The Beachcomber

Actors: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton, Dolly Mollinger

Synopsis: Based on a story by Somerset Maugham, The Beachcomber was originally released in Great Britain as Vessel of Wrath. This English version was much franker--and much more fun--than the abbreviated, watered-down US release prints. Even the American version, however, is successful in capturing the Read More

1938

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