Peter Firth Filmography

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity

Synopsis: This episode is a tour de force for actor Reiley McClendon, cast in the dual role of as teenaged graffiti tagger Logan Stanton and his twin sister Lindsay. After a member of the Stone Cold Assassins street gang is murdered, the SVU detectives seek out the only witness to the killing--who likewise Read More

Me & Mrs. Jones

Actors: Caroline Goodall, Robson Green, Philip Quast, Keeley Hawes, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Though its title is lifted from the popular 1970s song, the British drama Me & Mrs. Jones is eminently up-to-date in its tone and content. Robson Green stars as tabloid journalist Liam Marple, who at the behest of his boss (and ex-wife), Jane (Keeley Hawes), sets about to dig up dirt on Laura Read More

MI-5 [TV Series]

Actors: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Jenny Agutter, Peter Firth

Synopsis: Premiering May 13, 2002, on BBC1, the British espionage-adventure series Spooks pitted undercover agents of the country's MI-5 squad (the U.K. equivalent of the NSA) against international troublemakers and terrorists. Though extremely violent and almost unbearably tense, the series scored its Read More

Pearl Harbor

Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio. Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his Read More

That's Life [TV Series]

Actors: Heather Paige Kent, Debi Mazar, Kristin Bauer, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Dillon

Showdown in Magic Town

Actors: Charlie O'Connell, Peter Firth, Kimberley Davies, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Sam Healy

Synopsis: Young street performer Michael DeVane (Charlie O'Connell) is selected by mysterious magician Simon Magus (Peter Firth) to take over from Magus in his never-ending battle against the forces of evil. Endowed with powers far beyond those of your average stage illusionist, Michael does his best to Read More

Chill Factor

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: In this action thriller, the only things standing in the way of world destruction are two guys in an ice cream truck. On a remote island in the South Pacific, a secret weapons project (code name "Elvis") goes wrong, and a new chemical weapon, safe when frozen but deadly when thawed, is allowed to Read More

Mighty Joe Young

Actors: Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton, Rade Serbedzija, Peter Firth, David Paymer

Synopsis: This 1998 version of Mighty Joe Young begins with a Gorillas in the Mist-type prologue and then jumps forward twelve years to find Bill Paxton leading a safari expedition to capture the legendary giant (two-ton) gorilla, the subject of the film's title. Paxton's intentions are admirable; he wants Read More

The Garden of Redemption

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Embeth Davidtz, Dan Hedaya, Peter Firth, David Neal

Synopsis: This wartime drama concerns a Catholic priest who finds his beliefs tested by his desire to defeat fascism and his love for a woman. Don Paolo (Anthony LaPaglia) is a priest in a small Italian village during World War II. While he espouses pacifism and non-violence, his words fall on increasingly Read More

Seasick

Synopsis: A freighter crew slowly succumbs to the pressure and the numbing boredom imprisoned at sea because they carry a deadly cargo in psychodrama. Because her holds contain toxic materials, the ship Pandora has been banned from all ports for 16 months. Captain Belger is beside himself with frustration Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

Highlander: Warmonger

Actors: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Michel Modo, Peter Firth

Synopsis: Back in the Russia of 1918, Duncan's life was saved by fellow Immortal Drakov (Peter Firth).Out of gratitude, Duncan (Adrian Paul) promised never to fight or interfere with Drakov, no matter what the circumstances. 74 years later, Drakov, in the guise of security advisor Arthur Drake, has embarked Read More

Interview With a Serial Killer

Actors: Don Henderson, Peter Firth, Harriet Robinson

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Leslie Steckler (Peter Firth) is an inoffensive, polite and very quiet man. He does, however, have a particular animus against blondes wearing white. In fact, among that small group of women, he is a cold-blooded serial killer, instead of the meek dentist he usually appears Read More

Shadowlands

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison, John Wood

Synopsis: This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between novelist and noted Christian scholar C.S. Lewis and a Jewish-American poet. Anthony Hopkins stars as C.S. "Jack" Lewis, an Oxford professor and successful author of the Read More

The Perfect Husband

Actors: Tim Roth, Ana Belén, Peter Firth, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Carolina Estrada

Synopsis: This international co-production is loosely based on the works of Dostoyevsky (most notably The Eternal Husband) but it is set and lensed in Prague. Musician and incorrigible duellist Milan (Tim Roth) seduces Teresa (Ana Belen), the wife of his unsuspecting friend Franz (Peter Firth). Many years Read More

Pleasure Principle

Actors: Lynsey Baxter, Haydn Gwynne, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: To look at him, you would never guess that Dick is a major ladies' man, but looks can be deceiving. He has a way with women, at least up to a point. He can almost always get them to go to bed with him. It's just that what happens afterwards is a bit of an issue. For instance, he married a Read More

Married to Murder

Synopsis: Married to Murder stars Amanda Donohoe and Peter Firth as a ostensibly happy British married couple. This sunny veneer hides a sordid history of infidelity, mistrust and emotional abuse. Amanda would like nothing better than to murder Peter. But she'll have to move swiftly, since Peter has plans Read More

Prisoner of Honor

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that Read More

The Rescuers Down Under

Actors: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, Adam Ryen

Synopsis: Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) and Miss Bianca (voice of Eva Gabor), the intrepid mouse squad from the International Rescue Society of The Rescuers, return to help a little boy from the Australian outback named Cody ({voice of Adam Ryen), who has been kidnapped by an evil poacher named McLeach Read More

The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

Innocent Victim

Actors: Helen Shaver, Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Stoddard, Peter Firth, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Innocent Victim is a psychological thriller based on the Ruth Rendell novel Tree of Hands. London based, best-selling author, Benet (Helen Shaver), who has just written a controversial novel, lives alone with her young son. Benet's mother, Marsha (Lauren Becall), visiting from the United States Read More

Wings of Fame

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In 1966, a famous actor (Peter O'Toole) is taken by a rowboat to a fabulous old hotel on an island in the middle of a lake. He comes to find out that time stands still here -- and the reason is that he is dead. He discovers that all the residents of the hotel are famous but dead people, including Read More

The Incident

Actors: Barnard Hughes, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Joseph Sargent's made-for-TV drama, set during World War II, stars Walter Matthau as an attorney coerced into defending a German POW who is accused of murdering the town physician (Barnard Hughes), Matthau's best friend. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Prisoner of Rio

Actors: Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Florinda Bolkan, Desmond Llewelyn

Synopsis: In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. This feature was written by Biggs and director Lech Majewski as a fictionalized account of the authorities trying to bring the colorful crook to Read More

Born of Fire

Actors: Peter Firth, Suzanne Crowley, Oh-Tee

Synopsis: When he begins to hear eerie music in his head, a flutist travels to Turkey to investigate the circumstances surrounding his father's death. Soon he discovers supernatural phenomena involving the use of music to bring fiery destruction to the surface of Earth. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Northanger Abbey

Actors: Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: Northanger Abbey was filmed in England and first telecast in the U.S. on December 2, 1987. This 90-minute adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel incorporates the author's usual interconnecting themes of true love and acquisition of wealth, and tosses in a little Gothic mystery for good measure. Katherine Schlesinger Read More

State of Emergency

Actors: Martin Sheen, Peter Firth, Tim Pigott-Smith, Fionnula Flanagan, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests Read More

Lifeforce

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

Letter to Brezhnev

Actors: Alexandra Pigg, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Margi Clarke, Tracy Lea

Synopsis: A romantic farce that enjoys but never makes fun of its protagonists, this is an entertaining story about the unlikely pairing of a Liverpool factory worker and a Russian sailor. The romantic Teresa (Margi Clarke)works in a chicken factory and looks forward to the men she might meet on the Read More

White Elephant

Actors: Peter Firth

Synopsis: In this drama, a European businessman heads for Ghana where he plans to modernize the country by building a high-tech plastic furniture factory and by introducing them to computers. Once there, he finds the locals resistant to his imperialist notions of modernization. They oppose him at every Read More

The Aerodrome

Actors: Peter Firth, Richard Johnson, Richard Briers, Dominic Jephcott, Natalie Ogle

Synopsis: Aerodrome is a British black comedy set in the 1930s. A backwater English village is threatened with takeover by a fascist air force. It's the home guard to the rescue--sort of. Peter Firth, Richard Johnson, Jill Bennett, and Richard Briers head the cast. Produced for British TV in 1982, Aerodrome Read More

Fire and Sword

Synopsis: A rendition of the classic tale of Tristan and Isolde, this drama revolves around the dilemma of a medieval knight who is forced to choose between the love of a woman and the love of his country. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Tristan und Isolde

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Antonia Preser, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, Kurt Raab

Synopsis: The director Veith von Fuerstenberg has added some fictional elements to the story of Tristan and Isolde, a tale of star-crossed lovers which the film interprets without Wagner and operatic flourishes. Tristan, a knight from Cornwall, ends up wounded on the sands of an Irish beach after defeating Read More

The Flipside of Dominick Hide

Tess

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, John Collin, David Markham

Synopsis: In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville Read More

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Actors: Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, Lee Grant, Hal Linden

Synopsis: When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? has been presented often as a stage play by amateur theatrical groups. Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner plays Teddy, a cracked Vietnam vet who holds the denizens of a Texas roadside diner hostage at gunpoint. Candy Clark plays Cheryl, his zoned-out hippie Read More

Equus

Actors: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy's obsession is his mother, Joan Plowright, who has raised Firth with a convoluted set of values. Even as he Read More

Joseph Andrews

Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale

Synopsis: Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of Read More

Aces High

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a little every time one of his boys is killed. To steel his nerves, he takes to drink, which has an adverse effect on his abilities. Christopher Plummer staunchly portrays Read More

King Arthur, the Young Warlord

Synopsis: The early years of the future King Arthur are recounted in this film from Sidney Hayers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Diamonds on Wheels

Synopsis: Several teenagers involved in auto-racing find they must outrun a gang of diamond robbers when the kids accidentally discover some stolen loot while on a road rally. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Actors: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham

Synopsis: St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the Read More

Burndown

Synopsis: This thriller has a strong anti-nuclear message. It is set in Thorpeville, a Southern town that has an abandoned nuclear-power plant and chronicles a bizarre series of rapes and murders. What is most puzzling is that each of the female victims are found to be radioactive. Investigating the strange Read More