Peter Vaughan Filmography

The Pied Piper

Actors: Patsy Puttnam, Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence, John Hurt, Donovan, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: The Pied Piper eschews the romanticism of Robert Browning's poem and returns to the grim Grimm Brothers source. Pop singer Donovan plays the 14th century piper hired by duplicitous burgomaster Donald Pleasance to rid the town of Hamelin of its rats. The piper does what he's asked, but is denied Read More

The Mother

Actors: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Steven Mackintosh, Cathryn Bradshaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Anna Wilson-Jones, Peter Vaughan

Synopsis: Hanif Kureishi wrote this drama about a woman whose late-blooming romance causes a serious rift with her family. May (Anne Reid) and Toots (Peter Vaughan) are an elderly couple who travel to London to visit their two grown children, Bobby (Steven Mackintosh) and Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw). While Read More

Beauty

Actors: Martin Clunes, Sienna Guillory, Peter Vaughan

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

Actors: Helena Bergström, Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton, Rolf Lassgård

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this biopic. Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) was raised by a domineering mother (Miriam Margolyes) and meek father (Peter Vaughan), and at an early age discovered he liked to hide Read More

The Jury

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler, Helen McCrory

Synopsis: First telecast in the U.K. on February 17, 2002, the five-part British miniseries The Jury probes the workings of justice from the viewpoint of the 12 men and women chosen to determine the fate of a Sikh teenager, accused of murdering a white classmate with a ceremonial sword. This racially Read More

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Penn, Paul Bettany, Sienna Guillory, Alan Corduner

Lorna Doone

Actors: Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the Read More

Hotel Splendide

Actors: Toni Collette, Daniel Craig, Stephen Tompkinson, Katrin Cartlidge, Hugh O'Conor

Synopsis: In this bizarre satiric comedy, Kath (Toni Collette) is a chef who decides to leave the family business and strike out on her own. Her former lover Ronald (Daniel Craig) does not take this news well -- he's been trying to run the decaying Hotel Splendide, a resort and health spa, just the way his Read More

Canone Inverso

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Domiziana Giordano, Gregory Harrison, Andy Luotto

Synopsis: Recalling François Girard's The Red Violin, Canone Inverso - Making Love is a multi-layered, multi-generational tale of music, fate, and passion. Based on the novel by Paolo Maurensig, the film opens in pre-WWII Europe, where Jeno, a half-Jewish boy, lives in relative poverty with his mother. His Read More

Thursday the 12th

Actors: Jon Glover, Ciarán Hinds, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ralph Ineson, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Originally telecast over Britain's ITV1 in 2000, the two-part mystery miniseries Thursday the 12th began with the discovery of an unidentified body on the estate of Marius Bannister (Ciaran Hinds), a wealthy dentist and politician. As an investigative TV reporter Julian Glover sifted through the Read More

The Legend of 1900

Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep him. Nicknamed Novecento (1900), the boy grows up on the ship hidden from everyone. His presence is revealed when Read More

An Ideal Husband

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

Les Miserables

Actors: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson

Synopsis: Bille August directed this Rafael Yglesias adaptation of the 1862 classic by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) about the quest of Inspector Javert to capture escaped convict Jean Valjean, originally an honest man who was jailed for stealing a single loaf of bread to feed the family of his starving sister. Read More

Face

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steven Waddington, Philip Davis, Damon Albarn

Synopsis: Five criminals with varying degrees of experience are brought together and torn apart by a major robbery in this hard-edged British drama. Ray (Robert Carlyle) was once a leftist political activist whose ideals were dashed by England's increasing political conservatism, while his close friend Dave Read More

The Secret Agent

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

The Moonstone

Synopsis: Wilkie Collins helped pioneer a new literary genre when he published The Moonstone in 1868, widely believed to be the first detective novel, and this adaptation for British television brings his classic story back to life. In 1848, a few days before her birthday, Rachel Verinder (Keeley Hawes) Read More

The Crucible

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning Read More

Heart of Darkness

Actors: John Malkovich, Tim Roth

Synopsis: Previously the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), the dark novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a parable about greed-inspired colonialism, was adapted into this television movie by offbeat filmmaker Nicolas Roeg. Ambitious sailor Marlow (Tim Roth) is employed by Read More

Fatherland

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Jean Marsh, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: What if Germany had won WW II and successfully taken over Europe? Based on a novel by Robert Harris, this compelling drama is set in just such a world, 30 years after the Germans defeated the Allies at Normandy on D-Day. By this time, the country is known as Germania and since the war it has been Read More

The Remains of the Day

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly Read More

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Actors: Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes fans are divided as to who was the best on-camera interpreter of "The Master": Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett. Partisans of Brett should get their fill, and more, from the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes TV series. Produced in Britain in the '80s and '90s, these irresistible 60-minute Conan Doyle 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

Mountains of the Moon

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Synopsis: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort Read More

Codename: Kyril

Actors: Ian Charleson

Synopsis: Based on John Trenhaile's A Man Called Kyril, this byzantine-plotted spy melodrama stars Ian Charleson in the title role. Kyril is a supposed Soviet defector who relocates in London. In fact, his defection is a smoke-screen: Kyril has been sent by the KGB to seek out a British mole in Moscow Read More

The Bourne Identity

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Yorgo Voyagis, Peter Vaughan, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Quayle

Synopsis: Roger Young's made-for-TV adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, The Bourne Identity stars Richard Chamberlain as Jason Bourne, who washes up on the beach and is cared for by a doctor. Bourne has no memories, but is intrigued enough to investigate why he has the number of a Swiss bank account on Read More

Strife: One Truth Live

Synopsis: The hardcore metal band Strife has their 1995 winter tour documented on this film. In addition to live performances, the film shows how the band has become one of the mainstays of the hardcore movement. The DVD release of the film boasts music videos, and a full Japanese concert that is excerpted Read More

King of the Wind

Haunted Honeymoon

Actors: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this mild farce which is a pale reminder of Wilder's glory days in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Wilder plays ham radio actor Larry Abbot, who takes his fiancee Vickie Pearle (Gilda Radner) out to meet his relations on a gloomy country Read More

Harry's Kingdom

Synopsis: Harry's Kingdom and Harry's Machine are alternate titles for the 1985 low-budgeter Hollywood Harry. Actor Robert Forster made his directorial debut in this languid private eye flick, reserving the "hard boiled dick" lead for himself. Forster is hired to find a missing girl; his only lead is the Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Lenny Henry, John Shea, George Baker, Peter Vaughan

Synopsis: This comedy concerns two buddies trying to make a go of it. Ritchie Lee (Lenny Henry) is the owner of an ice cream van that serves as a place to store his disco equipment, used to play music for parties and other events. John Carloff (John Shea) is an American soldier who is AWOL from a U.S. Read More

Monte Carlo

Actors: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Robert Carradine, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the French city. She moonlights, however, as an Allied spy to retaliate against the Nazis who murdered her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Brazil

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild Read More

Forbidden

Synopsis: Forbidden represented not only the TV-movie bow of Jacqueline Bisset, but also the American debut of German film favorite Jurgen Prochnow. Filmed in Berlin by a British production crew, this fact-based story concerns German countess Nina von Halder (Bissett). Despite the anti-Semitic edicts of the Read More

Forbidden Alliance

Bleak House

Synopsis: This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt legal and class systems that prey on the weak and the innocent. Esther Summerson (Suzanne Burden), a kind and level-headed young woman introduced as an orphan, is the link Read More

The Razor's Edge

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach

Synopsis: In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the lead, Larry Darrel, a World War I survivor who takes off on a foreign trek to discover the meaning of his life. Apparently Murray said he'd film Ghostbusters only if Columbia would let him do Razor's Edge. ~ All Read More

Czech Mate

Synopsis: Czech Mate isn't nearly as clumsy as its title. This British made-for-TVer stars the lovely Susan George as a political naif. In spite of herself, the woman is sucked into a sinister conspiracy (there's another kind?) Patrick Mower co-stars as one of those "whose side is he really on?" types. Read More

Jamaica Inn

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: This made-for-TV remake of the Alfred Hitchcock adventure stars Patrick McGoohan as the head of a crew of smugglers; Jane Seymour plays his niece, who discovers the secret history of the title inn. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Missionary

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission Read More

Coming Out of the Ice

Actors: John Savage

Synopsis: Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In 1931, when Herman was sixteen, he and his family moved to the Soviet Union when his father was transferred there for his job with Ford Motor Company. Four years later Read More

Time Bandits

Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm

Synopsis: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Read More

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Actors: Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers, Chloe Salaman, Tamsin Murray-Leach

Synopsis: As indicated by its title, this British miniseries concentrated on the years between the two world wars, when the eminent Winston Churchill (Robert Hardy) was politically out of favor in his own country. Acutely aware of the danger looming in a newly re-armed Germany, Churchill vainly tried to Read More

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

Doing Time

Actors: Ron Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan

Synopsis: Doing Time is the American title for the British-made Porridge. Based on a popular TV sitcom, the film stars Ronnie Barker as the unofficial leader of a group of cut-up inmates in Slade Prison. These lovable lawbreakers engineer the escape of a timorous first offender who has been railroaded into Read More

Zulu Dawn

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British Read More

Porridge

Actors: Ron Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Peter Vaughan, Brian Wilde

Valentino

Actors: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal

Synopsis: Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for a time the reigning male romantic lead of the silent-film era. He died in 1926, having led a short, troubled and tempestuous life which included several stints in prison. Read More

The Return

Synopsis: Film study courses will benefit from this story of the haunting ghost of a murdered woman in England with its unique photographic techniques. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

11 Harrowhouse

Actors: Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, James Mason

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns millionaire Clyde Massey (Trevor Howard) pressuring diamond merchant Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin) into robbing a London diamond exchange owned by Meecham (John Gielgud. Read More

Symptoms

Actors: Michael Grady, Marie-Paul Mailleux, Ronald O'Neil

Synopsis: In this taut British horror movie, a lesbian entertains visitors at her lovely English country manor. Unfortunately, something transpires that causes the lesbian to fly into a jealous rage and begin killing people in gory ways. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rappresaglia

Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the mass execution of 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. The book Death in Rome contends that Pope Pius XII knew of the German plan but did nothing to stop Read More

Malachi's Cove

Actors: Veronica Quilligan, Donald Pleasence, Dai Bradley

Synopsis: Donald Pleasence is the sole "name" actor in the pleasant children's film Malachi's Cove. The actual star is Veronica Quilligan, playing Mally, a 14-year-old Cornish girl compelled to fend for herself. With a handful of young friends, she sets up a thriving business selling seaweed for farm Read More

The Blockhouse

Actors: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of wildly varying nationalities and walks of life are trapped in the blockhouse-and remain so for over six years. Though their prison is well stocked with food and beverages Read More

The Mackintosh Man

Actors: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. Read More

Savage Messiah

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough

Synopsis: Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great early 20th century artist who died tragically young. Henri Gaudier (Scott Anthony) is only 18 years old, a self-taught Parisian sculptor of enormous talent but prone to rash Read More

Straw Dogs

Actors: Cherina Mann, Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Colin Welland

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. To avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S., American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his British wife Amy (Susan George Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More

Avengers: My Wildest Dreams

Synopsis: Several board members of the Acme Precision Corporation are murdered, and Steed is on hand to witness each killing. The culprit appears to be a sleepwalker, but that's only part of the story. Investigating, Steed and Tara trace the clues to a demented psychologist -- who, in yet another twist, may Read More

Taste of Excitement

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a painter finds himself entangled in a murder plot when he gets involved with a pretty girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alfred the Great

Actors: David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely, Julian Glover

Synopsis: While Olde England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred (David Hemmings) is commencing to join the priesthood. But observing the