Richard Hartley Filmography

Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Tribute Show

Crew: Musical Arrangement

Actors: Gary Amers, Michael Ball, Adrian Edmondson, Joanne Farrell, Amy Field

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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 Lion in Winter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Andrew Howard, John Light

Synopsis: An elderly king must come to terms with his past as he plots his nation's future in this historical drama. In 1183, aging monarch King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) decides it is time to pick an heir to his throne, and he must choose one of his three sons -- John (Rafe Spall), Geoffrey (John Light) Read More

Puckoon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, Daragh O'Malley, John Lynch, Griff Rhys Jones

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Irish comedian Spike Milligan, Puckoon is a political satire about a town cut in half by the partitioning of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1924. The action takes place in a town known as Puckoon where an ordinary fellow named Dan Madigan wakes up Read More

When Brendan Met Trudy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter McDonald, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn

Synopsis: Brendan (Peter McDonald) is an anal retentive teacher and film buff. One night he goes to a pub and meets Trudy (Flora Montgomery), an outgoing, lively woman who is his complete and utter opposite. Against all odds, Brendan asks her out, and although their first date is disastrous, they gradually Read More

The Martins

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Eric Byrne, Terri Dumont

Synopsis: A man who wants to give his family the good things in life decides to start stealing them in this dark comedy from England. Robert Martin (Lee Evans) is a working-class loser -- or at least he might be working-class if he had a job -- who is obsessed with entering contests, certain a big prize Read More

Mad About Mambo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William Ash, Keri Russell, Brian Cox, Theo Fraser Steele, Rosaleen Linehan

Synopsis: An Irish boy obsessed with sports finds his life changing dramatically once he adds a little Salsa to his life in Mad About Mambo. Danny (William Ash) plays on the football team (called soccer in America) at the all-boys Catholic school he attends in Belfast. Danny's three best friends, who also Read More

Don Quixote

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, James Purefoy

Synopsis: A crusade for decency and truth is mounted by a man gone mad (or has he?) in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Alonso Quijano decides that it is time to devote his life to battling evil in all its forms; he dubs himself Don Quixote (John Lithgow), obtains a Read More

All The Little Animals

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner

Synopsis: British producer Jeremy Thomas made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the novel by Walker Hamilton. Hindered by a childhood auto accident, teen Bobby (Christian Bale) is a misfit from a well-to-do family; he suffers yet another setback after the premature death of his mother. His Read More

Rogue Trader

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe

Synopsis: Based on the tell-all autobiography by Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader tells the true story of how one man managed to bring down England's best respected merchant bank. Ewan McGregor plays Leeson, an ambitious young man from North London who is hired by the Barings Brothers Bank and sent to Indonesia to Read More

The Designated Mourner

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson, David de Keyser

Synopsis: This film adaptation of the acclaimed play by Wallace Shawn takes place in an unnamed country, where a repressive regime has come to power and begun rounding up and executing intellectuals. Jack (Mike Nichols), a journalist who aspired to a career as a novelist, sits with his wife Judy (Miranda Richardson Read More

A Thousand Acres

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth

Synopsis: A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based on Jane Smiley's novel about an aging farmer and his three daughters. The Lear-like farmer, Larry Cook (Jason Robards), decides to divide up his thousand-acre farm among his three daughters, but he disinherits his Read More

Playing God

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: After losing his license to work as a surgeon, synthetic-heroin addict Eugene Sands (David Duchovny) is on a downward spiral into the Los Angeles drug scene. One night, someone is shot in a bar, and Sands performs a life-saving medical maneuver on the spot. Word travels fast. A few days later, a Read More

When Secrets Kill

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Lacey Chabert was still the darling of the television series Party of Five when she accepted the leading role in this suspenseful TV movie. When the biological mother of adoptee Jenny Newhall (Chabert} is murdered, Jenny's adoptive father Greg (Gregory Harrison) immediately falls under suspicion. Read More

September

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rosemunde Pilcher, the British miniseries September boasted a fairly impressive cast in a fairly impressive production. Jacqueline Bisset starred as Pandora, a worldly middle-aged woman who after many years at large returned to her hometown, a provincial Scottish village. Read More

Stealing Beauty

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Donal McCann, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais

Synopsis: This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier Read More

The Brylcreem Boys

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Bill Campbell, William McNamara, Angus MacFadyen, Gabriel Byrne, Jean Butler

Synopsis: Many may not know that Ireland maintained its neutrality during World War II, so that any soldiers from that conflict who found themselves on Irish soil had to be kept in captivity until the war's end. For a variety of aeronautical reasons, quite a few Axis and Allied pilots found themselves Read More

The Van

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell, Neili Conroy

Synopsis: This is the third film adapted from a fictional trilogy by Irish writer Roddy Doyle about families living in a working-class Dublin neighborhood. The first was director Alan Parker's smashing music mockumentary The Commitments and the second was the hilarious comedy The Snapper, directed by Stephen Frears Read More

Rough Magic

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, D.W. Moffett, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Director Clare Peploe (wife of Bernardo Bertolucci) adapted this blend of noir mystery and magical realism from the story Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase. Bridget Fonda stars as Myra Shumway, an apprentice to a magician (Kenneth Mars) in 1952 Los Angeles. Myra is unhappily engaged Read More

Victory

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Jean Yanne, Ho Yi

Synopsis: This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Princess Caraboo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness. Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered Read More

The Secret Rapture

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Joanne Whalley, Penelope Wilton, Neil Pearson, Alan Howard

Synopsis: David Hare adapted his play about the tensions simmering within a British family, which erupt with the death of their patriarch. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Cried

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ciarán Hinds, Amanda Root, Kate Buffery, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: The Man Who Cried was one of many miniseries adaptations of the works of Catherine Cookson which aired on British television in the 1990s. Set during the Depression years, the series starred Ciaran Hinds as unhappily married Abel Mason. Attempting to escape his insufferable wife Lena (Angela Read More

Comics

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The two-part British miniseries Comics was written by Lynda La Plante, of Prime Suspect fame. In one of his first major TV roles, Tim Guinee stars as Johnny Lazar, a second-rate standup comedian. Having witnessed a gangland "hit," Johnny himself is targeted for extermination, whereupon he embarks Read More

Afraid of the Dark

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Keyworth, James Fox, Paul McGann, Fanny Ardant, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: A young boy comes to fear that his blind mother may become the next victim of a serial killer in this complex psychological thriller. Unfolding at first as a traditional suspense tale, the film follows the terrified boy's attempts to determine the killer's identity, a task his policeman father has Read More

Suddenly, Last Summer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rob Lowe, Natasha Richardson, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Produced for the PBS anthology series Great Performances, this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer constrasts sharply with the previous 1959 Hollywood version. Shorn of the movie's operatic screenplay and the star power of Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Read More

The Railway Station Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, John Lynch, Frank MacCusker, Mark Tandy

Synopsis: The first theatrical feature for director Michael White, The Railway Station Man is based on the novel by Jennifer Johnston and tells the story of an Irish woman, played by Julie Christie, recently widowed when her husband is killed by the IRA. As she slowly attempts to recover from the tragedy Read More

Innocent Victim

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Dealers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'Connor, John Castle, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: The financial and personal dealings of high finance set the stage for this drama. The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner (Simon Slater) commits suicide by putting a Read More

She's Been Away

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Geraldine James, James Fox, Jack Kyle, Rebecca Pidgeon

Synopsis: In her final film, celebrated British actress Peggy Ashcroft portrays one Lillian Huckle. Released from a mental institution after 60 years, Lillian is taken in her nephew (James Fox) and his somewhat trepidatious family. As they (and we) get to know Lillian better, the many social and emotional Read More

The Free Frenchman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Soursweet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long, Soon-Teck Oh, William Chow

Synopsis: With this melodrama about a Chinese immigrant couple trying to succeed in the harsh realities of Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed England, the sobering social commentary of director Mike Newell's television work met the airy charm of his romantic films. After their wedding in Hong Kong Read More

Consuming Passions

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, Tyler Butterworth, Freddie Jones, Sammi Davis

Synopsis: A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive (Tyler Butterworth) who accidentally knocks three workers into a vat. The product is an incredible hit with consumers, though one of the workers' widows (Vanessa Redgrave) is considering Read More

Wild Things

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Karen Young, Stuart Wilson, Tusse Silberg

Synopsis: Laura (Willow Grylls) and her brother Will (Ben Robb) are taken by their father Andrew (Stuart Wilson) to a Gothic hotel on the coast of Cornwall for a Christmas holiday. Andrew wants his children to meet Jane (Karen Young), the American woman he hopes to wed. Laura and Will adopt guerilla warfare Read More

The Four Minute Mile

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Huw stars as Roger Bannister in this British TV biopic. Overcoming childhood paralysis, Bannister grows up to be one of the true legends of the athletic world. While holding down a fulltime physician's job in 1954, he finds time to become the first man ever to run the mile in four minutes. Read More

Tumbledown

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Good Father

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in The Good Father as a publishing executive whose wife Julie Walters has left him, taking their son with her. Walking around like a zombie after this blow, Hopkins is brought back to life by involving himself in the profound problems of his friend Jim Broadbent. Feeling that Read More

The Impossible Spy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Shea, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The British/US co-production The Impossible Spy is based on the life and career of Israeli undercover agent Elie Cohen. The story begins in 1959, with the Egyptian-born Cohen (John Shea) being recruited by the Israeli Mossad. Cohen, a mild-mannered Jewish accountant, wants no part of espionage Read More

Metamorphosis

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Mandela

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation Read More

Defense of the Realm

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay

Synopsis: This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an Read More

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Even allowing for her in-and-out Austrian accent, Farrah Fawcett delivers one of her best ever TV-movie performances in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story. This fact-based film begins in 1960, when Beate's last name is still Kunzel. A sheltered young miss, Beate has no concept of what went on Read More

The McGuffin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ritza Brown, Francis Matthews, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: In this standard suspense thriller, Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a Read More

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and Read More

Dance with a Stranger

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll, Tom Chadbon

Synopsis: This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the last woman to be executed in England. Ellis, a divorcee and ex-prostitute works as a "hostess" in a tacky nightclub. There she meets and begins an obsessive love affair Read More

Parker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bryan Brown, Cherie Lunghi, Kurt Raab, Bob Peck

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, David Parker (Bryan Brown) is a married businessman with three children, a mistress in Germany, and a brother dealing drugs -- a combination of relationships that will eventually prove fatal to several people. After David leaves his London home and family behind for a Read More

Blue Money

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tim Curry, Debby Bishop, Billy Connolly, Dermot Crowley, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: An excellent vehicle to showcase the talents of Tim Curry, this comedy by Colin Bucksey casts Curry as Larry Gormley, an actor who has never really had the break he so desperately wants -- though whether or not his talent is up to the task is another question. Larry drives a cab in-between Read More

Sheena

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott, Elizabeth Toro, Elizabeth of Toro, France Zobda

Synopsis: Based on the famous comic strip, Sheena chronicles the adventures of the title character (Tanya Roberts), a fair-skinned orphan taken in by a kindly Zambouli priestess (Elizabeth of Toro, a real-life African queen) in a remote African village and trained in the ancient arts of makeup and Read More

Thunder Warrior

Actors: Bo Svenson, Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Valeria Ross, Antonio Sabato

Synopsis: In this spaghetti Western, a young Navajo by the name of Thunder (Mark Gregory) takes the lead in trying to stop a sacred burial ground from being plowed under so an observatory can be built. This act not goes against tribal beliefs, but violates a treaty signed by his grandfather. After a visit Read More

Kennedy

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Actors: Martin Sheen, Blair Brown, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: The 1,000-day presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the early '60s is depicted from the glorious beginning to the tragic ending. Kennedy (Martin Sheen) faces down the Soviets, the Cubans, his military leaders (over the war in Vietnam), FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Vincent Gardenia), and Jackie Read More

Kennedy: The Presidential Years

Crew: Director

La Truite

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout Read More

Bad Blood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Dennis Lili, Donna Akersten, Martyn Sanderson

Synopsis: Jack Thompson plays Stan Graham, a tragic and notorious figure of New Zealand's war years. Not the most easygoing person in the world to begins with, Graham is pushed over the edge when his farm is foreclosed. With seemingly no other options, he turns into a homicidal maniac, killing everyone he Read More

Shock Treatment

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Cliff De Young, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Charles Gray

Synopsis: The sequel to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this film follows the further adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper), as the now-married couple travels to a small town to appear on a game show. However, once on-stage, they discover that they are trapped on the Read More

Bad Timing

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Psychiatrist Alex (Art Garfunkel) becomes sexually obsessed with Milena (Theresa Russell), a woman whom he meets at a party. The pair become involved in an intense and mutually destructive love affair. The drama unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Alex tells his story to police Inspector Netusil Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Ian Carmichael

Synopsis: Screenwriter George Axelrod turns Alfred Hitchcock's classic comedy-thriller into a capering screwball comedy showcase for Cybill Shepherd and Elliot Gould in this style-less remake of The Lady Vanishes. On an express train traveling through pre-World War II Germany, Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) Read More

Aces High

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

The Romantic Englishwoman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for The Romantic Englishwoman credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the people in his life as deftly as he can manipulate the characters in his imagination. The title character Elizabeth, played by Glenda