Rebecca Eaton Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer

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The Last Enemy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle, Eva Birthistle

2008
Pierrepoint

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Cavan Clerkin, Eddie Marsan, Christopher Fulford

Synopsis: The life and career of the last in a long line of highly praised British executioners is explored in this drama directed by Adrian Shergold and starring Timothy Spall in the role of Albert Pierrepoint. As a youth, Pierrepoint was discouraged from pursuing the family career by a mother who claimed Read More

6/1/07
My Boy Jack

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall, Carey Mulligan, Martin McCann

Synopsis: Actor/writer David Haig pens and stars in this war drama tracing author Rudyard Kipling's search for his seventeen year old son after the boy is reported missing during World War I. Jack Kipling (Daniel Radcliffe) has vanished, prompting concerned parents Rudyard (Haig) and his wife to set out in Read More

2007
A Room With a View

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A precocious Edwardian girl suffocating from the social norms is forced to choose between following her heart and obliging her family's wishes after falling for a handsome but unsuitable stranger during a trip to Italy. Based on author E.M. Forster's tale of forbidden love and scripted by Pride Read More

2007
Mansfield Park

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billie Piper, Blake Ritson

Synopsis: Produced for UK television network ITV, this adaptation of Jane Austin's classic tale stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price, and Blake Ritson as Edmund Bertram. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Miss Austen Regrets

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Pip Torrens, Jack Huston

Synopsis: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Read More

2007
Northanger Abbey

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Felicity Jones, JJ Feild, Carey Mulligan, William Beck

Synopsis: Felicity Jones and J.J. Feild star in this made for television adaptation of Jane Austin's easygoing parody of gothic fiction concerning a hopeless romantic drawn into a mysterious relationship. Catherine Moreland (Jones) longs for the day that a dashing gentleman will finally sweep her off her Read More

2007
Persuasion

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones star in this adaptation of the Jane Austin classic about a lovelorn woman who receives a second chance for true happiness. Anne Elliot was just nineteen when she fell hopelessly in love with dashing naval officer Frederick Wentworth, so when her family Read More

2007
Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helen Mirren, Stephen Tompkinson, Laura Greenwood, Eve Best, Gary Lewis

Synopsis: Produced and aired in 2006, the final, four-hour installment of the 15-year Granada/WGBH television series Prime Suspect -- entitled Prime Suspect: The Final Act -- nominally continues to follow author Linda La Plante's literary character, Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren), but Read More

2006
Jane Eyre

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens, Francesca Annis, Christina Cole

Synopsis: Screen newcomer Ruth Wilson assumes the role of Charlotte Bronte's eponymous heroine in director Susanna White and screenwriter Sandy Welch's adaptation of the classic 1847 novel. Jane Eyre is a plain but spirited woman who leaves behind the cruel confines of a charity home to work as a governess Read More

2006
The Shadow in the North

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alan Cumming, Billie Piper, Jared Harris, JJ Feild, Matt Smith

Synopsis: A financial consultant enlists the aid of a skilled detective in tracking down the missing money of a wealthy client, in the process stumbling into a sinister plot hatched by a ruthless industrialist in this mystery adapted from author Philip Pullman's popular novel of the same name. The year is Read More

2006
The Wind in the Willows

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, Lee Ingleby, Bob Hoskins, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: Thesps Matt Lucas, Bob Hoskins, Mark Gatiss and Lee Ingleby star in this live-action BBC miniseries adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's beloved novel The Wind in the Willows. The program weaves the familiar tale of Mole, Rat, Badger and the inimitable Mr. Toad, who remain fast friends as they Read More

2006
Malice Aforethought

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Brown, Ben Miller, Barbara Flynn, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: An episode of the successful twenty-five year PBS anthology series Mystery!, Malice Aforethought tells the chilling story of Edmund Bickleigh (Ronnie Masterson), a physician who copes with irritations from his dominating wife by bedding numerous women from the town. This consummate philanderer Read More

2005
Kidnapped

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Iain Glen, James Anthony Pearson, Paul McGann, Adrian Dunbar, Gregor Fisher, Kirstin Coulter Smith

Synopsis: Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's enduring 1886 adventure novel, receives its 11th film adaptation in this two-and-a-half-hour miniseries starring young British TV vet James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour, the naïve and hopeful 15-year-old, poised to receive a vast inheritance when he is lured Read More

2005
Miss Marple [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Geraldine McEwan, Derek Jacobi, Janet McTeer, Jason Flemyng, Tim McInnerny

2005
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anne-Marie Duff, Tom Hardy, Hans Matheson, Ian Hart, Dexter Fletcher

Synopsis: The shrewd, 44-year reign of coquettish Queen Elizabeth I is explored in vivid detail in this lavish historical drama starring Anne-Marie Duff in the title role and directed by Coky Giedroyc. Imprisoned in the Tower of London after being charged with treason and conspiracy by Queen Mary, young Read More

2005
Bleak House

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gillian Anderson, Patrick Kennedy, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker

Synopsis: A trio of orphans becomes embroiled in a mysterious and long-running lawsuit in this sprawling BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. A legend in the legal circles of Victorian London, the messy inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been trickling through the courts for years with no Read More

2005
Agatha Christie's Marple [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Geraldine McEwan

Synopsis: Portrayed on previous occasions by such actresses as Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury, and Joan Hickson, Agatha Christie's indomitable amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple reappeared in the form of Geraldine McEwan on this TV series, produced for the United Kingdom's ITV1. Endeavoring Read More

2004
A Thief of Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Peter Fonda, Graham Greene

Synopsis: This adaptation of Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time keeps that book's original storyline. The protagonists Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are a pair of Navajo police officers whose beat is their reservation. They must investigate why some important historical artifacts have Read More

2003
The Forsyte Saga: Part 2 - To Let

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Damian Lewis, Gina McKee

Synopsis: John Galsworthy's epic tale of love, conflict, and dark secrets continues in this made-for-television adaptation of To Let, the final novel in Galsworthy's "Forsythe" trilogy. The Forsyte Saga: Series 2 focuses on Fleur (Emma Griffiths Malin), daughter of Soames Forsythe (Damian Lewis), and Jon (Lee Williams Read More

2003
Coyote Waits

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Alex Rice, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: When gunshots ring out in a tragic roadside shooting, police officer Delbert Nez winds up dead. His close friend Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) is the first on the scene, and upon spotting an elderly, drunken Navajo Shaman named Ashie Pinto (Jimmy Herman) with the murder weapon tucked in his belt Read More

2003
The Lost Prince

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Tom Hollander, Daniel Williams, Matthew Thomas, Gina McKee, Brock Everitt-Elwick, Rollo Weeks

Synopsis: This historical drama from director Stephen Poliakoff was produced for and originally aired on the BBC. Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning Read More

2003
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, Matt Day

Synopsis: Probably the most filmed of all Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1901 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles was given another go-round with this BBC television production. Richard Roxburgh, best known as the libidinous nobleman in the 2001 theatrical feature Moulin Rouge, is cast as The Read More

2002
A Death in the Family

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Adapted from James Agee's posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Death in the Family is set in Knoxville, TN, in 1915. The death of husband and father Jay Follett (John Slattery) in a car accident has profound and long-reaching effects upon his wife, Mary (Annabeth Gish), and his Read More

2002
Daniel Deronda

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Produced for British television, Daniel Deronda was adapted from George Eliot's final novel, written in 1874 (and first filmed in 1921). As was her habit, Eliot laid bare the hypocrisy and venality of Victorian-era "class culture," at the same time admitting that a certain amount of conformity was Read More

2002
Dead Gorgeous

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helen McCrory, Fay Ripley, Ron Cook, Lloyd Owen, Jonny Phillips

Synopsis: Based on Peter Lovesey's novel On the Edge, this British TV production is a comic variation on the old "exchange murder" device so beloved of writer Patricia Highsmith and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Shortly after the end of WWII, old friends Antonia (Helen McCrory) and Rose (Fay Ripley) Read More

2002
White Teeth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Om Puri, Philip Davis, Naomie Harris

Synopsis: Originally telecast in the United Kingdom, the two-part miniseries White Teeth was based on Zadie Smith's 2000 bestseller about the perils of cultural assimilation in modern day North London. Taking place in the years 1974 to 1992 and set in the melting-pot community of Willesden Green, the story Read More

2002
Lucky Jim

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1957, Kingsley Amis' first novel Lucky Jim served as the source for this sprightly and satirical two-hour drama special. Stephen Tompkinson headed the cast as Jim Dixon, a tweedy young lecturer at a provincial British university. While trying to curry favor with his Read More

2002
Skinwalkers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Saginaw Grant, Gerald Vandever, Alex Rice

Synopsis: Adapted from Tony Hillerman's best-selling novel by James Redford (stepson of Robert Redford), Skinwalkers was the vanguard of the proposed PBS anthology American Mystery. Returning to the Navajo reservation of his birth after many years, police detective Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) investigates a Read More

2002
Bertie & Elizabeth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards

Synopsis: The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in 1920, when the then-Duke of York Albert (James Wilby), known affectionately as Bertie, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton (Juliet Aubrey Read More

2002
The Road From Coorain

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: The formative years of celebrated Australian feminist Jill Ker-Conway are recounted in the two-hour TV biopic The Road From Coorain. Growing up in the Outback of New South Wales in the 1930s, Jill chafes under the domination of her mother, Eve (Juliet Stevenson), a prickly relationship that Read More

2002
The Forsyte Saga

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Damian Lewis, Gina McKee, Rupert Graves, Gillian Kearney, Amanda Root, Ioan Gruffudd

Synopsis: The Forsyte Saga was a remake of the classic 1960s British miniseries which put the PBS anthology Masterpiece Theatre on the map. Whereas the original version covered all of John Galsworthy's novels about the upper-crust Forsyte clan, requiring 26 episodes to do so, the remake took in only the Read More

2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Missing Joseph

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small

2002
Doctor Zhivago

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Keira Knightley, Hans Matheson, Sam Neill, Kris Marshall

Synopsis: Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel of love and betrayal amidst the Soviet Revolution is given a new interpretation for the small screen in this made-for-television adaptation. Yury Zhivago (Hans Matheson) is a young man who is sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Anna and Alexander Read More

2002
Pollyanna

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Georgina Terry, Amanda Burton

Synopsis: Eleanor H. Porter's novel about a cheerful girl who brightens the lives of those around her is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-television melodrama. Pollyanna Whittier (Georgina Terry) is an eleven-year-old girl who, after the unexpected death of her parents, is taken in by her Read More

2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: For the Sake of Elena

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lesley Vickerage, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Cherie Lunghi

2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Payment in Blood

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small

2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well-Schooled in Murder

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small

2002
Love in a Cold Climate

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Megan Dodds, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Alan Bates, Rosamund Pike, Celia Imrie

Synopsis: The first British TV version of Nancy Mitford's autobiographical novel Love in a Cold Climate was telecast in seven hour-long installments in 1980. This 2001 version attempted to crystallize Mitford's long and labyrinthine narrative into a mere 150 minutes, and for the most part it succeeded. Set Read More

2001
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Anthony Calf, Amanda Ryan, Emma Fielding

Synopsis: Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) is a detective inspector with Scotland Yard; he's also the eighth Earl of Asherton, and his mixture of upper-class refinement, private-school affectations, and steel-nerved street smarts set the stage for this made-for-TV mystery based on the novel by Elizabeth Read More

2001
The Cazalets

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hugh Bonneville, Stephen Dillane, Paul Rhys, Emma Griffiths-Malin, Catherine Russell, Frederick Treves, Ursula Howells

Synopsis: In the summer of 1937, wealthy timber importer William Cazalet (Frederick Treves) and his wife, Kitty (Ursula Howells), host their children -- Hugh, Edward, Rupert, and Rachel -- and grandchildren for an extended holiday at William's idyllic Sussex estate. At dinner, William invites Rupert (Paul Rhys Read More

2001
Anna Karenina

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: In 1978, America's PBS made the wise decision of running the ten-part 1977 British adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's tragic novel Anna Karenina. Twenty-two years later, the Boston-based public TV station WGBH entered into another felicitous partnership with the BBC, and the result was a shorter Read More

2001
Othello

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joss Ackland, Keeley Hawes, Del Synnott, Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston

Synopsis: This British TV production of Othello is more than a mere updating of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy; with freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, the film qualifies as a "rethinking" of the 17th century Shakespearean play, albeit still retaining the original's power and Read More

2001
The Last Morse

2000
Madame Bovary

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Greg Wise, Hugh Dancy, Keith Barron

Synopsis: Previously filmed by such cinematic geniuses as Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert's once-scandalous 1857 novel Madame Bovary was transformed into a two-part British miniseries in 2000. Set in the rural Normandy of the 1830s and 1840s, this is the story of Emma Rouault (Frances O'Connor Read More

2000
Take a Girl Like You

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rupert Graves, Sienna Guillory, Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis: Screened on U.S. television in 2001 as a presentation of Masterpiece Theatre, Take a Girl Like You is a two-part adaptation of English novelist Kingsley Amis' 1959 novel of the same name. The titular "girl" is Jenny Bunn (Sienna Guillory), a beautiful and virginal young woman who has the Read More

2000
The Song of the Lark

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alison Elliott, Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Acclaimed author Willa Cather offers a moving tale of an artist's self-discovery in a semi-autobiographical tale concerning a young woman from rural Colorado who moves to the big city to seek her fortune as a world-famous opera star. Originally aired as part of PBS' popular Masterpiece Theatre Read More

2000
Gormenghast

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christopher Lee, Neve McIntosh, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Synopsis: The Groan family has led the people for years from their castle, Gormenghast. Although a new heir, Titus Groan, has just come into the world, a scheming kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins an elaborate attempt to take control. Surprisingly Steerpike faces his stiffest competition from the usually Read More

2000
Innocents

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Originally seen on Britain's Channel 4 in 2000, the TV docudrama Innocents was based on one of the United Kingdom's most tragic and egregious examples of wholesale medical incompetence. The story takes place within the walls of the British Royal Infirmary, a children's hospital. The introduction Read More

2000
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ian Richardson, Charles Edwards

2000
Wives and Daughters

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Francesca Annis, Justine Waddell, Keeley Hawes, Anthony Howell

Synopsis: Debuting November 28, 1999, over BBC1, the four-part British miniseries Wives and Daughters was the second of two TV adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel (the first aired in 1972). Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the Read More

1999
Second Sight: Series 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Claire Skinner, Clive Owen, Stuart Wilson, Phoebe Nichols, Rebecca Egan

Synopsis: A co-production of Britain's BBC1 and Boston PBS outlet WGBH, Second Sight starred Clive Owen as Chief Inspector Ross Tanner and Claire Skinner as Tanner's deputy inspector, Catherine Tully. While investigating the murder of a troubled 19-year-old boy, Tanner comes to the daunting realization that Read More

1999
Oliver Twist

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alex Crowley, Andy Serkis, Sam Smith, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Kitchen, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: This 2000 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic was originally released as a six-hour, three-part miniseries on PBS. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous hero Read More

1999
All the King's Men

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Jason, Patrick Malahide, Maggie Smith, Ian McDiarmid, David Troughton

Synopsis: Originally produced for the BBC and broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this drama tells the story of the Sandringham Company, one of the most unusual teams of fighting men to march on the battlefields of World War I; under the leadership of Captain Frank Beck, the Read More

1999
David Copperfield

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Ciarán McMenamin

Synopsis: A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather, Murdstone (Trevor Eve). After biting Murdstone Read More

1999
Great Expectations

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Ian McDiarmid, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' classic novel, which has been brought to the screen at least six times in the past (including a modernized adaptation released in 1998), is committed to film once again in this production for television by the BBC. Pip is an orphan who lives with his older sister and her husband Read More

1999
Monsignor Renard

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell

Synopsis: Created by Russell Lewis, the four-episode British miniseries Monsignor Renard was set in the French town of St-Josse-des-Bois during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s. The title character, played by John Thaw of Inspector Morse fame, initially tried to keep himself above politics. Ultimately Read More

1999
Aristocrats

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution. The three-part TV miniseries follows the four Lennox sisters, daughters of Lord Richmond, from youth to Read More

1999
Cadfael: The Holy Thief

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: When a flood threatens to engulf Shrewbury Abbey, the monks quickly remove all the sacred objects, including the precious relics of St. Winifred. After the deluge, it is discovered that those relics have been stolen. While trying to solve the crime, Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) must protect the Read More

1998
Cadfael: The Potter's Field

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The unidentified body of a woman is discovered in a field near Shrewbury Abbey. The locals suspect that the dead woman was the wife of town potter Ruald (Gregor Tutter), who claims not to have seen his wife since she went on a pilgrimage the year before. Suspected of murder, Ruald puts his fate in Read More

1998
Cadfael: The Pilgrim of Hate

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This 90-minute Cadfael mystery first aired in England on December 28, 1998. Set in 12th century Shrewbury, the story concerns two religious pilgrims: an older man and his devoted young companion. A corpse is found tied in a sack -- could the pilgrims be responsible for the murder, or is one of the Read More

1998
Painted Lady

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helen Mirren, Franco Nero, Iain Glen, Michael Maloney, Lesley Manville

Synopsis: Helen Mirren played the title character in the two-part British miniseries Painted Lady. In the throes of poverty and drug abuse, Irish folk singer Maggie Sheridan (Mirren) pulled herself together when her wealthy and well-connected landlord was murdered and robbed of several valuable works of Read More

1998