Robert Beatty Filmography

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges Read More

Labyrinth

Actors: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Brian Henson, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm

Synopsis: George Lucas produced and Jim Henson directed this gothic fantasy which pits living and breathing actors Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie (who, along with Trevor Jones, provides the film's music) against a motley collection of Muppet monsters. The film centers upon teenage Sarah (Connelly), who Read More

Minder on the Orient Express

Superman III

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross

Synopsis: In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (Christopher Reeves Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Actors: Dennis Dugan, Kenneth More, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: We prefer the original release title of Disney's A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court: Unidentified Flying Oddball. In this new twist on an old Mark Twain yarn, NASA scientist Dennis Dugan and his robot clone are whisked back in time to the days of King Arthur (Kenneth More). After performing several Read More

Blakes 7: The Way Back

Actors: Gareth Thomas, Sally Knyvette, Michael Keating, Robert Beatty, Gillian Bailey

Synopsis: In the far distant future, the Earth and its space colonies are under the dictatorial rule of the Federation, which uses everything from physical torture to mind-controlling drugs to keep the populace under its thumb. Among the Federation's "perfect" citizens is Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), whose Read More

Golden Rendezvous

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith, John Vernon

Synopsis: Richard Harris dodges bullets from stem to stern in this middling thriller, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. The plot concerns high-sea hijinks aboard the Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino. In the midst of the high rollers and spinning roulette wheels appears Luis Read More

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

The New Avengers: Target!

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Keith Barron, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Purdey (Joanna Lumley) heads to an obstacle-laden firing range in hopes of breaking Steed's (Patrick MacNee) perfect marksmanship record. Five of Steed's previous associates have attempted the same thing at the same range, have fallen short of a perfect score by a mere fraction--and have promptly Read More

Sleepwalker

The Spikes Gang

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw is wounded in battle and manages to escape to the home of two helpful runaways who help him recuperate. During this time, the outlaw regales them with thrilling tales of his adventurous exploits. His stories inspire the lads to form a gang of their own; the outlaw is Read More

Pope Joan

Actors: John Arineri, Neville Aurelius, Lorain Bertorelli, Ion Grafini, Sheelah Wilcocks, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict III -- in this rambling saga directed by Michael Anderson. The British version of the film has been cut, not only removing twenty-one minutes of the film Read More

Sitting Target

Actors: Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: In between gigs writing two of the first films from director John Boorman and the sequel to The French Connection (1971), writer Alexander Jacobs adapted this bloody, violent drama from a pulp crime novel. Oliver Reed stars as Harry Lomart, a dangerous convict who's been planning a breakout with a Read More

Prince for Wales: Investiture of Prince Charles

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Donald Houston, David Frost, Harry Secombe, Tom Jones

Synopsis: This colorful documentary tours the scenic country of Wales. David Frost interviews Prince Charles about the area, and native actor Donald Houston narrates. Singer Harry Secombe sings a Welsh folk tune and Tom Jones sings "The Green, Green Grass Of Home." The feature was made when the Prince was Read More

Where Eagles Dare

Actors: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Patrick Wymark

Synopsis: An expensive but enormously profitable war picture, Where Eagles Dare centers upon a daring rescue and even more daring escape. Disguised as Nazi officers, commandoes Maj. John Smith (Richard Burton), Lt. Morris Schaffer Clint Eastwood and six other courageous souls parachute behind enemy lines. Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Robert Beatty, Dudley Jones

Synopsis: Written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, the four-part "The Tenth Planet" was the first "transitional" adventure in the Doctor Who canon. When the TARDIS docks at the South Pole in December 1986, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions find that they've arrived just in time to witness a Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, David Dodimead, Dudley Jones

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Tenth Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions come face to face with the Cybermen from the Earth's twin planet Mondas. In his effort to prevent the aliens from taking over the world, the Doctor begins to undergo a very Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Robert Beatty, David Dodimead

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Tenth Planet," Ben (Michael Craze) at last figures out the Cybermen's weakness. For the moment, it appears as though the earth is saved from the alien villains. But the story isn't quite over yet, as proven when Ben and Polly (Annika Wills) come face Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 3

Actors: Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Robert Beatty, Christopher Matthews, Christopher Durham

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Tenth Planet," the Cybermen set in motion their scheme for conquering the Earth. In his efforts to thwart the aliens, General Cutler (Robert Beatty) may cause far more harm than good. The conspicuous absence of the Doctor (William Hartnell) in this Read More

Bikini Paradise

Synopsis: Mission to Paradise is a British equivalent to those frolicsome female skinfests often seen on the USA network's Up All Night. British military officers Kieron Moore and John Baer are shipwrecked while on a reconnaissance mission. They soon discover to their delight that the island is Read More

Dr. Mabuse's Rays of Death

Synopsis: This is the final entry in the Dr. Mabuse films a bad doctor wants to blow up Earth with a death ray and a giant concave mirror. He is thwarted by the brave hero. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Amorous Mr. Prawn

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting Read More

Invitation to Murder

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a dying millionaire recluse wills his estate to the beneficiary who survives. A series of murders occurs and a detective is assigned to investigate. He discovers that the murderer is working for one of the recluse's granddaughters. After the guilty one is arrested, the Read More

The Shakedown

Actors: Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Bill Owen, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: This is a routine tale about the vice squad versus pornographer and blackmailer Augie Cortona (Terence Morgan). After the petty criminal gets out of prison, he discovers his old partners in crime are not interested in him anymore, and the prostitution ring he once bossed is controlled by someone Read More

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Actors: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Tarzan and the Lost Safari is the first MGM-released Tarzan picture since 1942, and the first of the series to be lensed in color. Gordon Scott plays the Lord of the Jungle, herein guiding a group of high-society types through the jungle after their plane has crashed. Since there's no Jane in the Read More

Time Lock

Actors: Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Vincent Winter, Lee Patterson, Sandra Francis

Synopsis: Time Lock is a textbook example of how a talented director and cast can do a lot with a little. Lensed in Canada, the story gets under way when a child is accidentally locked in a bank vault. The vault's time-lock isn't set to open for another 63 hours -- by which time, of course, the child will Read More

Something of Value

Actors: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark novel Something of Value. Filmed on location in Africa, this is the story of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, as seen through the eyes of a handful of protagonists. Virtually Read More

Postmark for Danger

Actors: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester, Josephine Griffin, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Postmark for Danger was filmed in England, where it was released as Portrait of Alison. Terry Moore stars as an American actress who becomes the unwitting dupe in a diamond-smuggling schemes. Ingredients essential to the action are a beautiful strangulation victim (Josephine Green), an unusual Read More

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents: The Ludlow Affair

Actors: Robert Beatty, Michael Anthony, Greta Gynt, Michael Ripper

Out of the Clouds

Actors: Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight, Eunice Gayson

Synopsis: Basil Dearden was co-producer and co-director of the British "slice of life" drama Out of the Clouds. Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the story takes place during one unusually busy day at London's Heathrow Airport. The dramatis personae includes Gus Randall (Anthony Steel), a pilot with a Read More

Break to Freedom

Synopsis: Escape from a German POW camp is the goal of the rescourceful Allied prisoners in this war film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Amante di Paride

Synopsis: Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of male friends. Their disparate suggestions that she go as Read More

Love of Three Queens

The Broken Horse-Shoe

Synopsis: Robert Beatty stars in this rapid-fire British programmer as an innocent bystander mixed up with drug smugglers. When things look darkest, Beatty is helped out by femme fatale Elizabeth Sellars. The smugglers are routed, and the figurative broken horseshoe of the title is mended so far as Beatty Read More

Man on a Tightrope

Actors: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of Czechoslovakian circus performers who have been plying their trade in Eastern Europe for years. When Czechoslovakia falls under Communist rule, the proud and independent Cernik finds 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

The Square Ring

Actors: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, George Rose

Synopsis: The contentious world of prizefighting provides the setting of this episodic drama that chronicles the lives of five different fighters. Each of the fighters explains their reasons for becoming professional pugilists. One of the fighters, Kid Curtis, ends up dead after a particularly brutal Read More

Project M7

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Muriel Pavlow

Synopsis: Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation research station. At the moment, the researchers are working on a revolutionary new aircraft, and competition to be first with the results is fierce. There's little love lost Read More

The Oracle

Actors: Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: The Oracle stars Robert Beatty as a weary British reporter sent on assignment to Ireland. While in a remote village, Beatty hears a man's voice emanating from a deep well. The voice turns out to be a modern-day oracle, gifted with the ability to foresee the future. Needless to say, the once-sleepy Read More

The Gentle Gunman

Actors: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Barbara Mullen

Synopsis: During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of peaceful persuasion, and refuses direct orders to blow up a London railway station. The gunman's impatient brother (Dirk Bogarde) find his sibling's new approach to be Read More

Wings of Danger

Actors: Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Kay Kendall, Naomi Chance, Arthur Lane

Synopsis: Wings of Danger was originally released in England as Dead on Course. This early Hammer Studios effort stars Zachary Scott as an airline pilot named Van. When Van's pal Nick Talbot (Robert Beatty) is strong-armed into aiding a gang of smugglers, it's time to take decisive action. Adventure-film Read More

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans

Synopsis: All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property (and simultaneously liquidate some "frozen funds") with the British-filmed Calling Bulldog Drummond. Walter Pidgeon stars as novelist Sapper's soldier-of-fortune, here Read More

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Actors: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, Denis O'Dea, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall

Synopsis: Gregory Peck stars as the title character in this swashbuckling saga of the high seas based on C.S. Forester's novel. In 1807, Hornblower is given a special assignment by the British Navy: he is to deliver a supply of weapons to El Supremo (Alec Mango), a Latin American rebel leading an uprising 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

Quel Bandito Sono Io

Actors: Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Margaret Rutherford, Rona Anderson

Synopsis: Based on a play by Pepine de Felipe, Her Favorite Husband is a British comedy set in Italy. Housewife Jean Kent is bemused by her husband Robert Beatty, who is not quite himself these days. In truth, he is not himself at all: Jean's husband has been replaced by a lookalike gangster who is plotting Read More

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

Synopsis: This mystery is based upon the popular radio quiz show, Twenty Questions and chronicles the endeavors of panelists to solve a real murder. The killer sends the four players clues which are read on the air. Fortunately, two clever reporters solve the mystery and then use the players to catch the Read More

Against the Wind

Actors: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Paul Dupuis

Synopsis: Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held Belgium on a rescue and destroy mission. Documentary film footage is included in the early parts of the film as the trainees get prepared for the task ahead. Robert Beatty Read More

Counterblast

Synopsis: Nazi war criminal Bruckner (Mervyn Johns) manages to escape capture at the end of WW II. Bruckner sets up shop in England, where he continues his diabolical germ-warfare experiments. Murdering an Australian physician, the regenerate Nazi assumes the dead man's identity to escape detection. His Read More

Another Shore

Actors: Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway, Michael Medwin

Synopsis: In this British drama, an ingenious but impoverished young man is determined to live on a Tahitian island. To achieve his goal, he begins hanging out on a street corner in one of London's most dangerous sections in the hopes of getting the chance to save a wealthy person, who should then Read More

Portrait from Life

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Patrick Holt, Herbert Lom, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German professor sees a portrait in an art gallery which looks exactly like his daughter, who is assumed to have died in the war. The girl (Mai Zetterling) has been living as an amnesiac Read More

Green Fingers

Actors: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer, Harry Welchman

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a fisherman begins studying to be a doctor. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a terminal illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was Read More

Odd Man Out

Actors: James Mason, Robert Newton, Fay Compton, Robert Beatty, Maureen Delaney, Kathleen Ryan, W.G. Fay, F.J. McCormick, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but idealism forces him out of hiding in order to raise Read More

Appointment with Crime

Actors: William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard

Synopsis: This murky revenge tale is based on a story by Michael Leighton. Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell plays one of the many hate-filled convicts that he essayed in 1940s British films. Released after a long incarceration, Hartnell is determined to get even with the gang that double-crossed him. Read More

It Happened One Sunday

Actors: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher, Judy Kelly

Synopsis: The inspiration for this British seriocomedy was Victor Skutezky's stage play She Met Him One Sunday. "She" is Moya Malone (Barbara White), an Irish maid living in Liverpool. "He" is Tom Stevens (Robert Beatty), a Canadian sailor. That "one Sunday" is a busy one, encompassing a few romantic Read More

San Demetrio, London

Actors: Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is disabled at sea, and thus left at the mercy of marauding Axis U-boats. The courageous crew manages to keep the San Demetrio afloat and guide it out of harm's Read More

Suspected Person

Actors: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Suspected Person was one of several Associated British Pathe productions released in the U.S. by PRC pictures. Clifford Evans stars as Jim Raynor, one of a trio of American bank robbers. When Raynor flees to England with the loot, he leaves his two accomplices at the mercy of the Law. Winning Read More

The First of the Few

Actors: Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film of the same name, Spitfire was originally released in Great Britain as The First of the Few. Director Leslie Howard stars in this dramatization of the life and work of R.J. Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire fighter plane. The film suggests Read More

Flying Fortress

Actors: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart, Charles Heslop

Synopsis: Produced by Britain's Teddington Studios on behalf of Warner Bros., The Flying Fortress stars Richard Greene, who had to be furloughed from the Army to participate in this wartime morale-booster. Greene plays millionaire playboy Jim Spence, a carefree aviation enthusiast whose avocation becomes