Susan HampshireFilmography

The Grand: Episode 13

The Grand: Episode 18

The Grand: Episode 16

The Grand: Episode 17

The Grand: Episode 14

The Grand: Episode 10

The Grand: Episode 15

The Grand: Episode 11

The Grand: Episode 12

Coming Home

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and 1941 as experienced by a brace of young and impressionable girls. Meeting in a boarding school, Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis became close friends, though they were Read More

The Grand: Episode 03

The Grand: Episode 02

The Grand: Episode 01

The Grand: Episode 04

The Grand: Episode 08

The Grand: Episode 07

The Grand: Episode 06

The Barchester Chronicles

Actors: Susan Hampshire, Nigel Hawthorne, Geraldine McEwan, Donald Pleasence, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: Adapted from a series of novels by Anthony Trollope, the Masterpiece Theatre production of The Barchester Chronicles features Donald Pleasence as Reverend Harding. Scandal taints the town of Barchester after the local church becomes the object of a scathing investigative report about the use of Read More

Bang!

Actors: Hakan Serner, Yvonne Lombard, Eva von Hanno, Susan Hampshire

Synopsis: In this drama, Hinder (Hakan Serner) is a middle-aged music teacher who has suddenly realized that time is passing him by. He has two unfulfilled dreams in life: to finish his major symphonic composition, and to have a genuinely successful love affair. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of David

Synopsis: Filmed in Israel and Spain, the four-hour made-for-TV The Story of David stars Timothy Bottoms as the Biblical king. The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba (Jane Seymour) is handled with taste and decorum. Also in Read More

Kill Two Birds

Synopsis: David Daker and Susan Hampshire star in this taped, 90-minute British TV movie. Daker plays a bank robber who has never revealed the hiding place of his stolen loot. Upon his release, he plays it cool, waiting for the right time to dig up his ill-gotten gains. He is pursued by his ex-partners, who Read More

The Pallisers [TV Series]

Synopsis: This historical dramatic series, produced by the BBC, explores political and social intrigue among England's privileged classes during the Victorian era. Plantagenet Palliser (Philip Latham) weds Lady Glencora (Susan Hampshire) in a match that has more to do with power than love as Palliser enters Read More

Neither the Sea nor the Sand

Actors: Betty Duncan

Synopsis: With minimalist production values and little dialog, this romantic fantasy takes place on the barren Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. Together they flee to Scotland. One day Read More

Cry Terror

Synopsis: Not long after making his film debut in 1973's National Health, Bob Hoskins popped up in the British made-for-TV quickie Cry Terror. Top billing went to the more firmly-established Susan Hampshire, playing one of two young women held hostage by criminal Hoskins and his cohort. Within its budgetary Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Actors: Kirk Douglas

Synopsis: This made-for-TV musical adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale is a curious novelty -- not only because it predated the Tony award-nominated Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical by nearly 25 years, but also because the musical numbers (by Lionel Bart and Irwin Kostal) are tackled by some Read More

The Lonely Woman

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gina Lollobrigida, Susan Hampshire, Renaud Verley

Baffled

Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles, Jewel Blanch

Synopsis: In this thriller a race-car driver develops mysterious psychic powers that allow him to warn people of impending danger. No one believes him until he meets an understanding parapsychologist who helps race off to warn those he saw in his terrifying vision. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Malpertuis

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Orson Welles

Synopsis: The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing them into human flesh. He then holds them hostage on an Ionian isle. Trouble ensues when the sailor falls in love with the Gorgon. Unfortunately, she turns him into stone. Read More

Living Free

Actors: Jean Hayes, Aludin Quershi, Nigel Davenport, Susan Hampshire, Geoffrey Keen, Edward Judd

Synopsis: In this sequel to the international success Born Free, George and Joy Adamson (Nigel Davenport and Susan Hampshire) are a pair of married conservationists who years ago rescued a lion cub named Elsa and -- after raising her to adulthood as a pet -- were able to successfully return her to the wild. Read More

A Time for Loving

Synopsis: A play by Jean Anouilh is the basis for A Time for Loving. In this Gallic blend of La Ronde and Plaza Suite, a single Paris flat is the scene for three separate romantic stories, bookended by a fourth. Star Mel Ferrar also functioned as producer; it must have taken some fast talking to keep him Read More

David Copperfield

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire

Synopsis: This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are Read More

Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies

Actors: Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Peter Cook, Walter Chiari, Tony Curtis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy concerns the annual auto race in Monte Carlo and boasts an international cast of all-star thespians. Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) is the scheming villain and auto tycoon who will stop at nothing to win the car race. When Chester (Tony Curtis) wins half of the car Read More

The Violent Enemy

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama set in war-torn Ireland, IRA terrorists conspire to blow up a British power station. Fortunately, a British supporter escapes from captivity and is able to stop them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Churchills

Actors: John Neville, Susan Hampshire

An Ideal Husband

Synopsis: A made-for-TV production of one of Oscar Wilde's peerless stage comedies, this frothy satire concerns Lord Arthur Goring and his close friend Sir Robert Chiltern. Arthur is a wealthy but unambitious man who is proudly lazy and uses his not inconsiderable knowledge and wit for no profitable Read More

The Trygon Factor

Actors: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt, Brigitte Horney

Synopsis: A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) ends up at the country manor of a respectable English family. Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt) is the mistress of the house who has turned to crime Read More

Vanity Fair

Actors: Susan Hampshire, Roy Marsden, Barbara Couper, Robert Flemyng, Marilyn Taylerson

Synopsis: Previously adapted for British television in 1957, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair underwent the miniseries treatment for a second time in 1967 as the first BBC drama filmed in color. Susan Hampshire headed the cast as the vixenish Becky Sharp, a poor farm girl who rose Read More

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Actors: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This lush and lively Disney adventure chronicles the young man's tumultuous ascension to the throne and his attempts to unite the Read More

Paris au Mois d'Aout

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Susan Hampshire, Daniel Ivernel, Alan Scott, Michel de Re

Synopsis: In this charming drama, a department store clerk takes his wife and kids on a Parisian vacation. One day he is out sightseeing by himself when he encounters a fashion model and offers to give her a guided tour. As they amble about, the romantic city casts its spell and the model falls in love with Read More

Night Must Fall

Actors: Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Sheila Hancock, Michael Medwin, Joe Gladwin

Synopsis: Albert Finney stars in this second film version of Emlyn Williams thriller about an innocent looking but psychopathic killer named Danny. Danny is a Welsh hotel bellboy who commits an axe murder near the home of Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), a well-to-do widow. Danny disposes of the body in a Read More

Wonderful Life

Actors: Cliff Richard, Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire, Hank B. Marvin, Bruce Welch

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a popular singer and his band find themselves stuck in the Canary Islands. While there a neurotic filmmaker brings his cast and crew to make a film. The singer ends up falling for the leading lady and decides to make a musical version of the film on the sly using the other Read More

The Three Lives of Thomasina

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Vincent Winter, Denis Gilmore

Synopsis: Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat. Thomasina is the pet of Karen Dotrice, the daughter of taciturn Scottish veterinarian Patrick McGoohan. When Thomasina falls ill, McGoohan coldly diagnoses the cat as Read More

During One Night

Synopsis: In this WW II psycho-drama, a wounded and traumatized American flyer becomes so obsessed with losing his virginity--lest he end up like his colleague who was castrated during a mishap on their last mission--that he goes AWOL. He eventually finds an obliging young streetwalker, but unfortunately Read More

The Long Shadow

Synopsis: Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

Expresso Bongo

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Meier Tzelniker

Synopsis: In this witty music-business satire, Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) is a talent agent down on his luck who thinks his tide may have turned when he spots a teenage rock & roll fan wailing away in a coffeehouse. Dubbing him "Bongo Herbert" (Cliff Richard, in a role the now knighted and born-again Read More

The Woman in the Hall

Actors: Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Edward Underdown

Synopsis: A mother provides a lousy example for her daughter in this gritty, realistic drama. The mother is a mistress of manipulating the sympathies of others for her own gain. Rather than working, she solicits the sympathy of others. Like her mother, the daughter is equally manipulative and ends up with a Read More