Simon WardFilmography

Double X: The Name of the Game

Actors: Norman Wisdom, William Katt, Gemma Craven, Simon Ward, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: A vacation in Scotland turns into hard work for Michael Cooper, a former Chicago policeman, when he runs into an engaging but nervous Englishman who appears as out of place as the American in a little Scottish fishing village. After the two become friendly, the ex-policeman learns the cause of the Read More

Wuthering Heights

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd

Synopsis: Peter Kosminksy directed this faithful adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic. Ralph Fiennes has the role of Heathcliff, a wanderer adopted by the father of Cathy (Juliette Binoche), "a wild slip of a girl." Heathcliffe is looked down upon by his stepbrothers and becomes a servant. He is further Read More

Leave All Fair

Actors: John Gielgud, Jane Birkin, Féodor Atkine, Simon Ward

Synopsis: A man meets a woman who is the image of his late wife, which leads him to make many of the same mistakes over again in this drama. Shortly after the death of Katherine Mansfield, an author from New Zealand, her husband and editor John Middleton-Murray (John Gielgud) oversees the posthumous Read More

Corsican Brothers

Synopsis: This version of the classic tale of estranged twin brothers, one good and one evil, whose lives and swords cross as adults, was made for British television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Etincelle

Actors: Roger Hanin, Clio Goldsmith, Simon Ward, John Moulder-Brown, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Dale (Clio Goldsmith) is a married, expectant mother who holds down a job as a radio announcer and when a Frenchman, Maurice (Roger Hanin), telephones the station one day to correct a mistake she made in reference to the cinema, the two eventually end up agreeing to meet. Dale is part-French and Read More

Supergirl

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: A big-budget spin-off from the series of three successful Superman movies, this film stars Helen Slater as the counterpart to the famous comic-book superhero. Supergirl is Kara, Superman's young cousin. She is sent to Earth is search of a Krypton power source, a lost ring that has been turned into Read More

The Monster Club

Actors: Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales. The author is invited by a suave vampire (Vincent Price) to accompany him to the title establishment, where he observes Read More

Zulu Dawn

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British Read More

The Last Giraffe

Synopsis: The Last Giraffe was adapted by Sherman Yellin from the book Raising Daisy Rothschild by Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville. Put two and two together, and you'll figure out from the above information that the giraffe of the title and Daisy Rothschild are one in the same. Filmed in Kenya, the Read More

La Sabina

Actors: Carol Kane, Jon Finch, Harriet Andersson, Simon Ward, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: A British writer goes to live in a Spanish village while he looks into the mysterious life of a 19th century wanderer who was allegedly slain by La Sabina, a mythical lady dragon. The writer becomes lovers with an American visitor and then falls in love with an enigmatic beauty from town. Things Read More

Dominique Is Dead

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Simon Ward, Jenny Agutter, Ron Moody

Synopsis: The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after her fortune and must try several times before he succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide. The dastardly husband Read More

The Chosen

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Agostina Belli, Simon Ward, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna

Synopsis: Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) is a wealthy and powerful industrialist, an engineer who develops nuclear power plants. A true believer in nuclear energy, he plans to make nuclear generation commonplace around the world. He is about to retire and turn over the running of his corporations to his son Read More

The Four Feathers

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: This fifth film version of A.E.W. Mason's "Sun Never Sets" adventure novel The Four Feathers was adapted for television by Gerald DiPego. Following the death of British general "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum, 19th-century gentleman officer Harry Favershem (Beau Bridges) is summoned to active duty in Read More

Die Standarte

Actors: Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Viktor Staal, Verónica Forqué, Gerd Boeckmann

Synopsis: Toward the end of 1918, soldiers in the Austrian army were well aware that things were not going well. In this story, an army cadet arrives to serve in Belgrade and receives orders to serve in a regiment which is accompanying a Hanoverian princess on her return to Vienna. While in Belgrade, the Read More

Aces High

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 Four Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to remove Queen Read More

Valley Forge

Synopsis: Valley Forge is a videotaped TV adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1934 play. Richard Basehart plays General George Washington, whose "shambles of an army" struggles to survive the bitter winter of 1777 at Valley Forge (there's plenty of soap-chip snow, and never mind that it wasn't all that snowy Read More

Children of Rage

Actors: Richard Alfieri, Helmut Griem, Olga Georges-Picot, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward

Synopsis: An Israeli doctor (Helmut Griem) is working with guerrillas at an enclave when the Palestinians attempt to blow up a dance-hall. The doctor is stunned to discover an old friend among the terrorist dead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Butley

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features an astonishing performance Read More

Deadly Strangers

Actors: Hayley Mills, Simon Ward

Synopsis: Everything appears to be fine when a pair of strangers (Hayley Mills, Simon Ward) meet up and agree to travel together. However, the news that a mental patient has escaped from a nearby institution begins to cause problems between them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

All Creatures Great and Small

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Simon Ward, Lisa Harrow, Brian Stirner

Synopsis: This feature-length dramatization of James Herriot's best-seller was issued by EMI as a big-screen theatrical release in England, but debuted on NBC as a telemovie in the United States, February 4, 1975. It stars Simon Ward as Herriot in his early days as a veterinarian. The story picks up in Read More

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Actors: Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Read More

William

Actors: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Lynn Redgrave, Simon Ward, Paul Jones

Synopsis: Taped in London and originally telecast by the BBC, this ABC Afternoon Special combines comedy, drama, and song to introduce young children to the marvels of William Shakespeare. In the course of a lively 46 minutes, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson read excerpts from Hamlet, Richard III, and As Read More

Dracula

Actors: Nigel Davenport, Jack Palance

Synopsis: This TV-movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel of the "undead" was adapted by Richard Matheson and photographed by Oswald Morris. As the titular count, Jack Palance is a reluctant victim of an unwelcome fate, rather than a grinning bloodsucker. Nigel Davenport co-stars as Van Helsing Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

Young Winston

Actors: Michael Audreson, Robert Lankesheer, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm

Synopsis: This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide Read More

Quest for Love

Actors: Tom Bell, Joan Collins

Synopsis: This science fiction/fantasy is loosely based on a story by John Wyndham (best known for The Day of the Triffids). Scientist Collin (Tom Bell) stumbles across a parallel world in which President Kennedy is not shot, Vietnam hasn't happened, and Ottilie (Joan Collins), the woman he loves, dies Read More

I Start Counting

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe, Simon Ward, Gregory Phillips

Synopsis: When two teenage girls fantasize about their sexual yearnings, one is stalked by a psychopathic murderer. Wynne (Jenny Agutter) is adopted by a family and soon has a massive crush on her stepbrother George (Bryan Marshall). Her friend Corrine (Clare Sutcliffe) is Wynne's virginal friend who Read More

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Actors: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters

Synopsis: The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron Frankenstein in a mask. Hammer's fifth installment in the series sees the transformation of doctor into monster complete. Peter Cushing's portrayal of the Baron here is all insanity Read More

If...

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann

Synopsis: Rebellious students at an English private school plan a violent revolt against their repressive environment in director Lindsay Anderson's highly acclaimed but extremely controversial drama. Centering on a small group of non-conformists led by Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), the film paints a Read More