Robert Bolt Filmography

Born:: August 15, 1924 in Sayles, Manchester, England, UK
Occupation:: Screenwriter, Play Author
Birth name:: Robert Oxton Bolt
Biography:: Over his lengthy, distinguished career, British screenwriter and playwright Robert Bolt has been thrice nominated for Academy Awards and has won twice for Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Man for All Seasons(1966). Born and raised in Manchester, Bolt served in the British Air Force during WWII and...Read More

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A Man for All Seasons

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: Originally telecast in December of 1988, A Man for All Seasons was the first made-for-TV film produced on behalf of the TNT Cable Service. Charlton Heston makes his film directorial debut herein, and also plays the central role of Sir Thomas More, 16th century lord chancellor of England. Read More

1988
The Mission

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Featuring a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by Chris Menges, Roland Joffé's The Mission examines the events surrounding the Treaty of Madrid in 1750, when Spain ceded part of South America to Portugal, and turns this episode into an allegory for the mid-'80s Read More

10/31/86
The Bounty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis

Synopsis: This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough's novel Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian. This time, the infamous Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) is as strict a disciplinarian as ever. He is Read More

1984
Gandhi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in Read More

1982
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor

Crew: Screenwriter

1979
Lady Caroline Lamb

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fanny Rowe, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton

Synopsis: Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of William Lamb, Lord of Melbourne, and the author of the poem Childe Harold, Lord Byron. Excited and embarrassed by the attendant affections heaped upon him, Byron found his Read More

6/6/74
Ryan's Daughter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, John Mills

Synopsis: The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular." Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan Read More

1970
A Man for All Seasons

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw)'s break from the Read More

1966
Doctor Zhivago

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More

1965
Lawrence of Arabia

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains

Synopsis: This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. Read More

1962