Ray Davies Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Featured Music

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Glastonbury

Actors: Michael Eavis, T. Rex, Radiohead, R.E.M., Coldplay

Synopsis: In 1970, a music aficionado and entrepreneur named Michael Eavis staged a "pop, folk, and blues" festival on a dairy farm in the English community of Glastonbury, not far from Stonehenge. 1,500 attended the "Glastonbury Fayre," and a second festival followed in 1971. By 2005, The Glastonbury Read More

2/23/07
Hedd Wyn

Actors: Huw Garmon, Judith Humphreys

1992
Flashback

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films such as Midnight Run (1988). Kiefer Sutherland is uptight, 26-year-old FBI agent John Buckner, who's been assigned to escort an aging counterculture radical named Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper Read More

2/2/90
Absolute Beginners

Actors: Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies

Synopsis: The rise of teen culture in 1950s Britain provides the backdrop for Julien Temple's unconventional rock musical Absolute Beginners. The film centers on Colin, an 18-year-old with a talent for photography and a fondness for the neon nightlife of British jazz clubs. He also is in love with Crepe Read More

4/18/86
Return to Waterloo

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth Colley, Valerie Holliman, Dominique Barnes, Hywel William Ellis, Aaron Probyn

Synopsis: Ray Davies, leader of the group The Kinks and one of the most well-respected songwriters in the history of British rock, made his directorial debut with this film produced for British television. A man (played by Kenneth Colley) boards a commuter train and reads his newspaper, glancing at a story Read More

1985
The Kinks: One for the Road

Actors: The Kinks

Synopsis: The Kinks have proved to be one of the most durable rock groups. Their popularity began in the '60s and continues in spite of newer popular sounds. In The Kinks: One for the Road, which was filmed on tour, the Kinks display their showmanship by performing familiar hits such as "Victoria," "Lola," Read More

1980
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

1979
The Virgin Soldiers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick, Rachel Kempson

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds rookie soldiers of the British Army trying to cope with military life while stationed in Malaya. Brigg (Hywel Bennett) is a young clerk who falls for the local school teacher Phillipa (Lynn Redgrave), the daughter of Royal Sergeant Major Raskin (Nigel Patrick). Brigg Read More

1969
Till Death Us Do Part

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: This film is taken from the popular British television series. Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) is a middle-aged bigot who loves the Queen and all that for which the kingdom (or what is left of it) stands, right or wrong. He puts up with his dizzy wife, Else (Dandy Nichols), his liberated daughter (Una Stubbs Read More

1968
Half a Sixpence

Actors: Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale, Penelope Horner, Elaine Taylor

Synopsis: British musical star Tommy Steele had starred in Half a Sixpence in London and on Broadway, thus he was first choice for this garish film version. Based on the H.G. Wells story Kipps (previously filmed in 1941 with Michael Redgrave), Half a Sixpence tells the tale of a humble London drapery clerk Read More

1967