Peter Jones Filmography

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In Too Deep

Actors: Hugo Race, Santha Press, Rebekah Elmaloglou, John Flaus, Dominic Sweeney

Synopsis: Heat, both climatic and erotic, imbue this Australian thriller from first-time directors Colin South and John Tatoulis. The film takes place in mid-summer in the sweltering city of Melbourne and concerns a love affair between Wendy (Santha Press), a jazz singer, and Mack (Hugo Race), a Read More

Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Dee, M.R. Murphy, Dennis Cunningham, Paul Nielsen

Synopsis: Jared (William Dame) and Casey (Catherine Dee) are a wealthy young married couple who fill their ample free time by staging elaborate fantasies for their own amusement. These "transcendental theatricals" are acted out in their mansion with the help of a few paid performers, one of which is the Read More

Whoops Apocalypse

Actors: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to Read More

Whoops! Apocalypse [TV Series]

Actors: Barry Morse, John Barron, Richard Griffiths, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer

Synopsis: Imagine Monty Python's Flying Circus crossed with Dr. Strangelove, and you'll have a pretty good idea of what went on in the uproarious "black" British sitcom Whoops! Apocalypse. Three of the world's superpowers collide head-on in their efforts to replace the recently deposed Shah of Iran: U.S. Read More

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Actors: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Peter Jones, Joe Melia, Steve Conway, Martin Benson, Sandra Dickinson

Synopsis: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a 1978 BBC radio series by Douglas Adams, who adapted the material into a bestselling novel in 1979. This six-part BBC television miniseries - a witty and farcical science-fiction send-up -- stars Simon Jones as gormless Arthur Dent, who wakes up one Read More

Golden Soak

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: An Australian-German co-production, Golden Soak was set in Australia in the late 19th century. On the outs in his native England, mining engineer Alex Hamilton (Ray Barrett) headed "Down Under" to start life all over again. The plot thickened when Alex got mixed up with an abandoned and supposedly Read More

Because He's My Friend

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Keir Dullea, Karen Black

Synopsis: Because He's My Friend was directed for Australian television by American TV veteran Ralph Nelson. Karen Black and Keir Dullea play the parents of a mentally retarded teenager (superbly played by Warwick Poulson). The boy's condition effects the marriage both adversely and positively. The film Read More

Seven Nights in Japan

Actors: Michael York, Hidemi Aoki, Charles Gray, Anne Lonnberg, Elenore Hirt

Synopsis: In the romantic drama Seven Nights in Japan, Michael York plays Prince George, the fictional heir to the British throne, a British navy officer. On shore leave in Japan, he meets Somi, a Japanese tour bus guide (Hidemi Aoki), and they have a brief romance. Attempts are made on the prince's life. Read More

Carry on England

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Windsor Davies, Patrick Mower, Judy Geeson, Jack Douglas

Synopsis: The long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies was nearing the end of the line when this 28th film in the cycle was released in 1976. Set in World War II, Carry On England explores what happens when the British military decides to set up an experimental mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery. Read More

The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

Confessions of a Pop Performer

Actors: Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Doris Hare, Sheila White

Synopsis: In this ribald erotic comedy, brothers team up to promote a rock band. Even though the musicians are remarkably untalented and one of the brothers is an incredible klutz, somehow they manage to succeed. Unfortunately, the band's fall to the bottom is nearly as quick as its rise to the top, for the Read More

Avengers: The Curious Case of the Countless Clues

Actors: Tony Selby

Synopsis: Steed is the latest in a long line of aristocrats who have been accused of crimes thanks to carefully planted evidence. He also finds himself victimized by a blackmailer, who uses his ill-gotten gains to purchase works of art. Making matters worse, Steed cannot entirely rely on Tara for Read More

Hot Millions

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley

Synopsis: This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he is released from jail Caesar (Peter Ustinov) is planning his high-tech heist. He cons American executive Klemper (Karl Malden) and sets up three bogus companies to receive Read More

Carry on Doctor

Actors: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale

Synopsis: The producers of the popular British "Carry On" series aren't going to fix something if it is not broken. This workable, slapstick comedy returns to a hospital setting and benefits from the same gags that made Carry On, Nurse a top draw in Britain. Instead of Dr. Kildare, this emergency unit has Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then quits her job and moves into the house of another man, a good friend, not a lover. When she learns that her husband is looking for a replacement singer, she does her best to Read More

Smashing Time

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl

Synopsis: Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into Read More

Avengers: The Thirteenth Hole

Synopsis: A golf course turns into a killing ground for an unfortunate British agent. Investigating, Steed and Emma discover that the course is actually a front (or, technically, a "top") for an enemy espionage base. The foresighted villains use satellite technology -- then very much in its infancy -- to Read More

The Sandwich Man

Actors: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's most offbeat and outrageous characters in this situation comedy. British blonde bombshell (Diana Dors) co-stars. Watch for Michael Chaplin (son of Charlie) as a beatnik artist. Read More

Helicopter Canada

Crew: Producer

Press for Time

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Derek Bond, Angela Browne, Tracey Crisp, Noel Dyson

Synopsis: In this English comedy, the trouble begins when a bumbling young man embarrasses his grandfather, the British Prime Minister, by selling newspapers on a street corner. Soon the fellow finds himself given a reporter's job and sent to cover a story in a tiny coastal village. There he soon finds Read More

Father Came Too!

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Sally Smith, Ron Barker

Synopsis: In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix it up themselves. They originally purchased the ramshackle pile to escape the influence of the new wife's meddlesome father. Unfortunately, the place needs more help than Read More

Drylanders

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frances Hyland, James Douglas, William Fruet

Synopsis: Set in Canada at the turn of the century, Drylanders stars James Douglas as a veteran of the Boer War. Returning home, Douglas finds city life not to his liking, so he opts for the life of a wheat farmer. At first prosperous, Douglas' farm falls victim to a nationwide drought. He struggles to keep Read More

A Stitch in Time

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeannette Sterke, Jerry Desmonde, Jill Melford

Synopsis: Diminutive pratfall comic Norman Wisdom, Britain's latter-day version of Charlie Chaplin, brought his trademark physical slapstick to this comedy. Wisdom plays Norman Pitkin, a simple butcher's assistant who accompanies his boss, Mr. Grimsdale (Edward Chapman) to the hospital after Grimsdale Read More

Romanoff and Juliet

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Akim Tamiroff, Alix Talton, Suzanne Cloutier

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and very similar to the equally well-regarded The Mouse That Roared (1959). Ustinov is "the general," leader of the tiny European nation Concordia, which is so small that it does Read More

Nearly a Nasty Accident

Actors: Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis

Synopsis: Essentially a one-joke comedy hanging on the thinnest of plots, this routine series of slapstick situations is directed by Don Chaffey and concerns the ineptitude of an Air Force officer, Captain Kingsley (Jimmy Edwards). The likeable Captain has a fixation on mechanical contrivances, but at the Read More

School for Scoundrels

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price

Synopsis: In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get ahead in the world. He enrolls in a "school" that specializes in teaching one-upmanship -- the slogan is "How to win without actually cheating." Through fair means and foul Read More

The Bulldog Breed

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Robert Urquhart, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and absurd situations. What does bring everything into a certain unity is the comic character type created by Norman Wisdom, an inept, likeable loser whose efforts to succeed Read More

Never Let Go

Actors: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith, Carol White

Synopsis: This shockingly violent yet engaging crime drama is about a bitter battle for survival in the lingering poverty of post-World War II London. Richard Todd plays optimistic but ineffectual soap and shampoo salesman John Cummings whose job becomes even harder when his new car is stolen. The theft Read More

Operation Bullshine

Actors: Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley, Ronald Shiner, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Set in an anti-aircraft station along the British coast, this light comedy features Donald Sinden as Lt. Gordon Brown and Barbara Murray as his wife, Private Betty Brown. When a group of female recruits are posted to the base, the handsome lieutenant attracts their attention, especially the Read More

Bar Mitzvah

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: It is an interesting fact (and one probably worthy of further research) that some of the best films about North American Jews (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) have emanated from Canada. Produced in Ottawa through the auspices of the National Film Board of Read More

A Private's Progress

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his country Read More

Charley Moon

Actors: Max Bygraves, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin, Florence Desmond, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: Reginald Arkell's backstage novel Charley Moon made a successful transition to the screen in 1956. Comic actor Max Bygraves stars as Moon, a small-time music-hall performer with an eye for the ladies. A string of lucky breaks, and a little bit of ruthlessness on Charley's part, allows him a chance Read More

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Actors: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries, Lisa Gastoni, Sabrina

Synopsis: Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is surrounded by police and army troops. The Read More

John and Julie

Actors: Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Moira Lister, Peter Sellers

Synopsis: Scads of color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth was strategically deployed in John and Julie. The story involves two little provincial children (Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley) whose parents have no plans to attend the Coronation. Left to their own devices, John and Julie run Read More

For Better for Worse

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young star Dirk Bogarde and strangely forgotten newcomer Susan Stephen star as a young married couple who struggle to make things run smoothly in their first year together. The Read More

The Red Dress

Synopsis: This film offers a trio suspenseful dramas. In the first, an unhappy wife refuses to mourn the death of her husband, a miner who was trapped in a mining accident. Instead, she gets herself a new lover. Unfortunately, the husband survived. In the second episode, one sister saves the other, who has Read More

Time Gentlemen Please?

Actors: Eddie Byrne, Hermione Baddeley, Raymond Lovell, Dora Bryan, Jane Barrett

Synopsis: Time Gentlemen Please is a phrase that is all too familiar to British pub patrons; it means that it's closing time, and everyone is invited to go home. Actually, the film has less to do with elbow-bending than with the vagaries of British traditions. A tiny English village is thrown into a panic Read More

The Long Memory

Actors: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: John Mills followed his successful Gentle Gunman with the tensioned-filled meller The Long Memory. Convicted for a murder he did not commit, Davidson (Mills) spends 12 long years in prison. Upon his release, he vows to get even with the three witnesses who perjured themselves and clenched his Read More

The Yellow Balloon

Actors: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester

Synopsis: Twelve-year old Frankie (Andrew Ray) feels guilty after his best friend falls to his death when they are playing in a bombed-out London building. Len (Sylvester) is a petty thief who has just become a murderer by killing the pub owner in a botched robbery. Frankie and Len's paths cross, and Len Read More

Innocents in Paris

Actors: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, Claire Bloom, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat Alastair Sim to loosen up Soviet-agent Peter Illing long enough to forge an economic plan between Russia and England. Then we watch as dotty artist Margaret Rutherford purchases Read More

Roadhouse Girl

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: The British Roadhouse Girl was released in the US as Marilyn, but don't go looking for Ms. Monroe around these parts. Sandra Dorne plays Marilyn, the sexy young wife of ill-tempered garage owner Leslie Dwyer. Assuming that his wife is fooling around with mechanic Maxwell Reid, Dwyer begins Read More

A Day to Remember

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, James Hayter

Synopsis: Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver (Donald Sinden Read More

The Good Beginning

Synopsis: Johnny Fraser is a middle-class Briton jealous of the conspicuous consumption of his next door neighbors (Peter Reynolds, Lana Morris). To show them up, Fraser buys his wife (Eileen Moore) a valuable mink jacket. He goes deeply into debt, then goes deeper still as he borrows to pay for the loan Read More

Always a Bride

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Ronald Squire, James Hayter, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: Always a Bride stars Terence Morgan as an officer of the British Treasury who tells himself he's a honest man. Then he falls in love with Peggy Cummins, the daughter of a jovial swindler (Ronald Squire). Using privileged information, Morgan conspires with the father to separate several people from Read More

Affair in Monte Carlo

Actors: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Peter Jones, Joan Dowling

Synopsis: Originally titled 24 Hours in a Woman's Life, the British Affair in Monte Carlo stars Merle Oberon and Richard Todd. A compulsive gambler, Todd is on the verge of disgrace and ruin. Ms. Oberon makes it her mission in life to save Todd from himself. The story is told from the point of view of Read More

Albert, R.N.

Actors: Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester, Guy Middleton, Michael Balfour

Synopsis: The title character of Albert, R.N is portrayed by-well, by no one. Albert is a papier-mache dummy, constructed by the British inmates of a German POW camp. The dummy is used as a diversion in a daring escape plan. Anthony Steel plays the mastermind of the getaway scheme, while Anton Diffring Read More

Angels One Five

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq

Synopsis: "Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small (Jack Hawkins), who is taken out of commission after an accident. Despite the protests from his fellow flyboys, Tiger insists upon taking to the air again, thereby setting Read More

Miss Robin Hood

Synopsis: In this whimsical fantasy, a mild-mannered writer of wild adventure novels for young girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire together to steal the whiskey formula from the distillers who took it from her family many years Read More

Home to Danger

Synopsis: Rona Anderson plays a wealthy young Englishwoman, long estranged from her father. She returns home when papa dies, reluctantly agreeing to listen to the will reading. It soon becomes clear that some unknown party is out to bump off Anderson as well--though she is the only person who stands to Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

The Browning Version

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brian Smith, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his life may be a failure, in this powerful adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play with a screenplay by Rattigan himself. Poor health forces Crocker-Harris to give up his teaching Read More

The Franchise Affair

Actors: Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Set in a quiet British village, Franchise Affair details the ramifications of a malicious lie. Schoolgirl Ketty Kane (Ann Stephens) hopes to cover up her own misbehavior by claiming that two local women, Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), have kidnapped and abused Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Actors: Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Keen, Julien Mitchell

Synopsis: Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management relations. When a group of angry workers protest their wage and working conditions at a plough factory, they are permitted to take over the operation themselves. It isn't long Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Actors: Jean Simmons, Susan Stranks, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, Peter Jones, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more explicit, though it's hardly as racy as the 1980 Brooke Shields version. Two British children, Emmeline (Susan Stranks) and Michael (Peter Jones), are shipwrecked on a tropical Read More

Private Angelo

Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Peter Ustinov, Marjorie Rhodes, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during
WW II, the film stars Ustinov as a tremulous Italian army private who does his best to avoid getting shot at. Trouble is, the more he tries to run away from danger, the more dangerous his life Read More

Forbidden

Synopsis: In this drama, a medicine seller falls for an ice cream vendor. Unfortunately, his wife won't grant him a divorce. In order to help her change her mind, he slips her some pills in an attempt to give her a coronary. It works and so he buries her. As he does, he finds the extra pills. She had died Read More

Vice Versa

Synopsis: Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very end. Anthony Newley plays the funloving son of stuffy stockbroker Roger Livesy. Father and son come into possession of a magic stone, and place a wish upon it. The result Read More

Man of Evil

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent

Synopsis: In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her family's home in London. However, bad luck awaits her at nearly every turn. After her father is killed in a fist fight by the aristocratic but dastardly Lord Manderstoke (James Mason