Tom Conti Filmography

Dangerous Parking

Actors: Peter Howitt, Saffron Burrows, Sean Pertwee, Rachael Stirling, Alice Evans, Tom Conti

Derailed

Actors: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis: A clandestine love affair may claim a terrible price from two desperate people in this psychological thriller. Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is an advertising executive who is married to Deana (Melissa George) and has a young, diabetic daughter whose third kidney operation just failed. Charles's Read More

I Was a Rat

Actors: Calum Worthy, Tom Conti, Brenda Fricker, Katie Blake, James Millard

Synopsis: Based on the children's book by Philip Pullman, Laurie Lynd's I Was a Rat is a feature-length fable originally made as a three-part BBC miniseries. A reworking of a popular fairy tale, the story opens with a young abandoned pageboy (Calum Worthy) taken in by a childless couple: the aging cobbler Read More

Deadline [TV Series]

Actors: Oliver Platt, Christina Chang, Bebe Neuwirth, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Hoping to revive the glory days of Lou Grant, NBC, in association with Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, came forth with the weekly, one-hour newspaper drama Deadline. Oliver Platt starred as Wallace Benton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose dauntless dedication was matched by his Read More

The Enemy

Actors: Luke Perry, Olivia D'Abo, Roger Moore

Synopsis: In this tense action thriller, Mike Ashton (Luke Perry) is a scientist working in genetics whose father was also a scientist. However, the senior Ashton once made the mistake of using his talents to create a dangerous biochemical weapon, and now years later Mike finds himself the target of Read More

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove, Charles Dance, Frank, Jane Leeves

Synopsis: Several American stars add marquee value to this British comedy about a single mom who's back in the dating game, whether she likes it or not. Jenny Seagrove plays Suzanne, a recently widowed woman in her 30's with two children, teenage son Ben (Ben Reynolds) and younger daughter Natalie (Ace Read More

Mysterious Britain

Synopsis: Tom Conti narrates this documentary that explores various eerie phenomena within the British Isles. From the voices at Bircham Newton Aerodome to the sightings of the Loch Ness monster, as well as the paranormal wonders of Stonehenge and other stone monuments, this 76-minute tour through British Read More

Friends: The One After Ross Says Rachel

Synopsis: Season five of Friends begins in London, a few moments after the wedding of Ross (David Schwimmer) and Emily (Helen Baxendale) -- and a few more moments after Ross nearly wrecked the ceremony by invoking Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) name. As Emily expresses her desire to escape her marriage vows Read More

Something to Believe In

Actors: William McNamara, Maria Pitillo, Tom Conti, Maria Schneider, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Lew Grade is the executive producer of this British-German co-production, a romantic drama that gets underway in Las Vegas with several casino cameos (Robert Wagner, Roddy McDowall, Jill St. John, William Hootkins). Lymphoma leaves Vegas croupier Maggie (Maria Pitillo) only a few weeks to live, so Read More

Sub Down

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Gabrielle Anwar, Tom Conti

Synopsis: Two civilians become the only hope for a nuclear submarine stranded beneath a polar ice cap. Stepehen Baldwin and Tom Conti star in this aquatic effort from prolific director Alan Smithee. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Inheritance

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Tom Conti, Thomas Gibson, Brigitta Dau, Brigid Brannagh, Cari Shayne

Synopsis: Forbidden love between a beautiful orphan and an eligible upper-class bachelor sparks jealousy and deceit in the family that took her in as a child in this period drama from director Bobby Roth. As a child, Edith Adelon (Cari Shayne) was taken in by the wealthy Henry Hamilton (Tom Conti) so that Read More

Someone Else's America

Actors: Tom Conti, Miki Manojlovic, Maria Casarés, Zorka Manojlovic, Sergej Trifunovic

Synopsis: Immigrant friends living in a shabby corner of Brooklyn while they pursue the American Dream are the center of this comedy-drama from Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic. Tom Conti stars as Alonso, a Spaniard and owner of the Paradiso, a run-down bar where he lives with his blind mother and where Read More

Wimbledon '92

Synopsis: This action packed tournament features the singles victories of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graff. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Le Diable A Quatre

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Tom Conti, Zouc, Michel Duchaussoy

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That Summer of White Roses

Actors: Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger, Alun Armstrong, John Gill

Synopsis: That Summer of White Roses is a World War II drama about a lifeguard at a Yugoslavian summer resort who falls in love with a woman who fights against the country's Nazi occupation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase

Synopsis: Like 1976's Sybil, Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase was a two-part TV movie based on the true story of a woman plagued with multiple personalities. Shelly Long stars as a woman whose abused childhood has resulted in the fragmentation of her psyche into 22 separate personalities. Before her Read More

Shirley Valentine

Actors: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins Read More

Fatal Judgment

Synopsis: A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder. Joe Regalbuto and Tom Conti Read More

Beyond Therapy

Actors: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad Read More

Roman Holiday

Actors: Tom Conti, Catherine Oxenberg, Eileen Atkins, Patrick Allen

Synopsis: All the charm and joie de vivre of the 1953 Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday is purged from this hollow TV remake. The stunning but lifeless Catherine Oxenberg assumes the Hepburn role of a young princess who escapes the protocol of court life for a romantic fling in Rome. Tom Conti Read More

The Dumb Waiter

Actors: Tom Conti, John Travolta

Synopsis: Based on the one-act play by Harold Pinter, Robert Altman's The Dumb Waiter is a short made-for-TV movie originally shown on ABC. This absurdist crime story doesn't follow a traditional plot, but it follows the work of two hitmen: Ben (John Travolta) and Gus (Tom Conti). They hang out in the Read More

The Quick and the Dead

Actors: Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this made-for-HBO western stars Sam Elliott, an enigmatic gunslinger who comes to the aid of a family traveling through the wilderness. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gospel According to Vic

Actors: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman, Brian Pettifer, Jennifer Black

Synopsis: Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) is a Glasgow teacher who works in a Catholic school for backward students. Though the school is named for Edith Semple, a long-dead Scotswoman who supposedly performed several miracles in her lifetime, Vic is doggedly nonreligious, insisting that it's miracle enough that Read More

Miracles

Actors: Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, A. Martinez

Synopsis: A doctor (Tom Conti) and his wife (Teri Garr), recently divorced, are kidnapped and brought to South America by an inept jewel thief (Paul Rodriguez), just in time to help cure a tribal chief's daughter of appendicitis. Then, a series of circumstances brings the entire family together. ~ John Read More

Saving Grace

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini, Donald Hewlett

Synopsis: This is an Italian comedy about a runaway, incognito Pope who makes his way to a village for a temporary stay and tries to bring a few good works to fruition while there. After Pope Leo XIV gets locked out of the Vatican garden one day, he opts for taking off on a small escape from official and Read More

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Synopsis: Even allowing for her in-and-out Austrian accent, Farrah Fawcett delivers one of her best ever TV-movie performances in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story. This fact-based film begins in 1960, when Beate's last name is still Kunzel. A sheltered young miss, Beate has no concept of what went on Read More

American Dreamer

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, James Staley

Synopsis: In this farcical look at a female detective/mystery story writer, Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is an ordinary housewife living in Ohio with a condescending husband who is far from ideal. When Cathy wins a writing contest and has the chance to go to Paris and meet the author of the romance novels Read More

Reuben, Reuben

Actors: Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, E. Katherine Kerr

Synopsis: Tom Conti stars as a drunken Scottish poet who preys upon the lasses of a New England college town by swooning over them with poetry and bedding them with a passion. He'd probably have continued in such fashion for who knows how long, were in not for his encounter with a lovely homespun gal (Kelly McGillis Read More

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Actors: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jack Thompson

Synopsis: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Princess and the Pea

Synopsis: A princess from an obscure kingdom (Liza Minnelli) must undergo an unusual test to prove her royal origins in this lively episode from Shelley Duvall's popular, family-oriented cable television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wall

Synopsis: It could be said that without the incredible success of the ABC miniseries Holocaust in 1978, CBS might have thought twice before greenlighting the ambitious, three-hour TV docudrama The Wall four years later. Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which in turn was inspired Read More

Deep Cover

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Tom Conti, Denholm Elliott, Kika Markham, Phoebe Nicholls

Synopsis: In this Dennis Potter-scripted TV film, Donald Pleasence plays Jason Cavendish, a retired Cambridge professor, who lives in a remote country estate with his second wife (Kika Markham), his daughter (Phoebe Nicholls), and his butler/secretary/confidant (Denholm Elliott). Their sleepy routine is Read More

Norman Conquests, Part 2: Living Together

Synopsis: Part two of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests trilogy is subtitled "Living Together." Though not precisely a sequel to part one, part two finds Norman (Tom Conti) continuing his romantic pursuit of various female in-laws in the parlor of his family home. Heads of the household Richard Briers and Penelope Keith Read More

Norman Conquests, Part 1: Table Manners

Synopsis: Produced for British television, The Norman Conquests was based on a trilogy of stage comedies by Alan Ayckbourn. Each playlet is set in a different room under the same roof: the home of Norman (Tom Conti) and his family. In Part 1, Table Manners, Norman attempts to seduce his two sisters-in-law Read More

Norman Conquests, Part 3: Round & Round the Garden

Synopsis: Playwright Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests trilogy comes to a conclusion with the 106-minute "Round and Round the Garden." Whereas part one took place in the dining room and part two was set in the garden, part three takes place in the garden of the home of Richard Briers and Penelope Keith. Read More

The Duellists

Actors: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Cristina Raines, Edward Fox, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad, variously titled The Duel and The Point of Honour. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play officers in Napoleon's army -- D'Hubert and Feraud, respectively -- who spend their off-hours challenging each other to bloody duels. This goes on for Read More

Full Circle

Actors: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: The British/Canadian Full Circle is better known by its American title, The Haunting of Julia. The eponymous Julia, played by Mia Farrow, is driven to near-madness by the death of her daughter. Things don't get much better when Julia and her husband move into a forbidding old mansion. The events Read More

The Glittering Prizes [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman

Synopsis: A hit with the critics when it first premiered on PBS back in the late 1970s, Frederic Raphael's six-part miniseries details the hopes and fears of an entire generation by following a group of friends who first meet while studying at the esteemed Cambridge University in the 1950s. Later, as the Read More

Galileo

Actors: Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill

Synopsis: Filmed in England, Galileo is based on Charles Laughton's 1947 adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht, which, like this 1975 film, was directed by Joseph Losey. Israeli film-star Topol plays the 17th century Italian astronomer, whose theories run contrary to the edicts of the Catholic Church. Read More

Flame

Actors: Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Tom Conti

Synopsis: British glam rock superstars Slade made their collective acting debut in this downbeat drama about a pop group's struggles with success. In the late '60s, Barry (Dave Hill), Paul (Jim Lea), and Charlie (Don Powell) are musicians who are barely making a living playing pub dates, weddings, and Read More

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