Ronald HarwoodFilmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter
Birth name:: Ronald Horwitz
Biography:: One of the most accomplished and critically celebrated of all contemporary dramatists, South African-born Ronald Harwood spent the majority of his career dividing his time between prolific careers as a playwright, scriptwriter for theatrical films, and author of teleplays. Harwood (born Ronald...Read More

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Australia

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson

Synopsis: Set against the scenic backdrop of pre-World War II Australia, Baz Luhrmann's romantic period adventure stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch, and Hugh Jackman as the rough-and-tumble cattle driver who helps protect her property from greedy English cattle Read More

11/26/08
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

12/19/07
Love in the Time of Cholera

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's novel of the same name, director Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-century South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young Read More

11/16/07
Oliver Twist

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe

Synopsis: Director Roman Polanski gives one of Charles Dickens' best-loved stories a new and dynamic interpretation in this period drama. Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is a young orphan in Victorian England who has been sent to a dank workhouse run by the miserly Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift) when it is learned Read More

9/23/05
Being Julia

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful Read More

10/15/04
The Statement

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, William Hutt

Synopsis: A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers on both sides of the law in this drama, based on the novel by Brian Moore and inspired by a true story. After France fell to German occupation during World War II, the Read More

12/12/03
Taking Sides

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Oleg Tabakov

Synopsis: Set in Germany in 1946, Taking Sides tells the story of the investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård), the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, by the American occupying army. Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) has been told by his Read More

9/5/03
The Pianist

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox

Synopsis: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody Read More

12/27/02
Cry, the Beloved Country

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alan Paton's classic novel about two fathers coming to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid was brought to the screen for a second time with this adaptation, the first major film produced in South Africa after Nelson Mandela's Read More

1995
The Browning Version

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty Read More

1994
A Fine Romance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Julie Andrews, Jonathan Cecil, Ian Fitzgibbon, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis: Devastated by the news of his wife's affair with the suave Dr. Piquet (Jean-Michel Cannone), Cesario Garibaldi (Marcello Mastroianni) hatches a plan with Dr. Piquet's wife, Pamela (Julie Andrews). Neither of them realized, however, that curtailing the extramarital bliss of their respective spouses Read More

9/11/92
Countdown to War

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Aldridge, Alex Norton, Barrie Rutter, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: Countdown to War is a unique docudrama featuring actual private papers and diaries of the major players of World War II. Actor Ian McKellen portrays Hitler using recreated dialogue taken from the man himself. Behind-the-scenes events that predated the war are presented. Authentic meetings and Read More

1989
Mandela

Crew: Screenwriter

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

1987
The Doctor and the Devils

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Sian Phillips, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the project to fruition in 1985. Essentially, the Read More

1985
The Dresser

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

Synopsis: The complicated relationship of two men who have given their lives to the theater forms the basis for this acclaimed drama. During World War II, an aging but once famous Shakespearean actor, addressed by his cast and crew only as "Sir" (Albert Finney), continues to tour the British theater circuit Read More

1983
Evita Peron

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Faye Dunaway, James Farentino

Synopsis: Faye Dunaway portrays the Argentinian title character in this four-hour TV biopic. The story traces Evita's rise to power from humble origins; she establishes herself as a radio and film actress, then meets and marries powerful politico Juan Peron (played by James Farentino, a last minute Read More

1981
Operation Daybreak

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Karel Curda, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the Read More

1976
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Torstein Rustdal, Jo Skjonberg, Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, James Maxwell, Alfred Burke, Eric Thompson

Synopsis: Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s is brought to the screen in this stark and spare adaptation by director Caspar Wrede, writer Ronald Harwood, and cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tom Courtenay is Ivan, who is a prisoner in the eighth Read More

1971
Eyewitness

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More

1970
Cromwell

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard Harris) is the Anglican religious fanatic who fights corruption and Catholicism with equal zeal, while King Charles (Alec Guinness) is the vacillating monarch who believes his Read More

1970
La Ragazza con la Pistola

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffré, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth, Tiberlo Murgia

Synopsis: This wry comedy finds the beautiful Assunta (Monica Vitti) being kidnapped by Vincento (Carlo Giuffre) and taken to his remote home in the country. He plans to "dishonor her" and by doing so, win her hand in marriage. In a hilarious turn of events, Assunta willingly gives in to the amorous Read More

9/20/68
Diamonds for Breakfast

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More

1968
A High Wind in Jamaica

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of children. The Thorntons, a British family living in Jamaica, decide to pull up stakes and sail back to England after Frederick Thornton (Nigel Davenport) and his wife (Isabel Dean) Read More

1965
Private Potter

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, James Maxwell, Ralph Michael, Brewster Mason, Ronald Fraser

Synopsis: This conventional military drama is meant to showcase the conflict between an individual's right to religious belief (and experiences) and the army's right to punish what it sees as a violation of direct orders, especially when the violation leads to a fatality. Private Potter (Tom Courtenay in Read More

1963
The Barber of Stamford Hill

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Megs Jenkins, John Bennett, Maxwell Shaw, John Graham, Trevor Peacock

Synopsis: A lonely barber invents an imaginary family for the benefit of his customers. He tells them he is married with two children, but in reality spends his time playing chess with another lonely friend. Barber Figg (John Bennett) believes his marriage proposal to a young widow with two children will Read More

1963