Tom Stoppard Filmography

Born:: July 3, 1937 in Zlin (Gottwaldov), Czechoslovakia
Occupation:: Screenwriter
Birth name:: Thomas Straussler
Biography:: Though his primary profession is as a renowned playwright, the versatile and prolific Tom Stoppard has also carved out a distinguished secondary career as a screenwriter. Born in Czechoslovakia, Tom Straussler and his family moved to Singapore in 1939 and then to India in 1941 to escape World...Read More

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The Bourne Ultimatum

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to solve the mystery of his past while being hunted by members of the very organization he was hired into as director Paul Greengrass brings author Robert Ludlum's popular character back to the big screen for his third feature outing. David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen Read More

8/3/07
Enigma

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew MacFadyen, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Synopsis: The true story of a major breakthrough in intelligence technology created during World War II provides the backdrop for this blend of mystery, romance, and espionage, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a gifted mathematician who is working with the British Read More

4/19/02
Vatel

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Hywel Bennett, Gérard Depardieu, Arielle Dombasle, Julian Glover, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman

Synopsis: A man hoping to win the favor of a King finds that his heart has gotten in the way in this lavishly-produced comedy-drama. In 1671, the Prince du Conde (Julian Glover) is a figure of French nobility who is deep in debt and suffering from gout. Hoping to buoy his fortunes and his reputation, du Read More

5/12/00
Shakespeare in Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench

Synopsis: William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In Read More

12/11/98
Poodle Springs

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Tom Bower, Brian Cox

Synopsis: For this TV movie, Bob Rafelson directed James Caan as famous shamus Philip Marlowe. The novel Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was writing during the year of his death remained unfinished until it was completed 30 years later by Spenser author Robert Parker. The British-based, Czech-born Read More

1998
Medicine Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, Jose Wilker, Rodolfo de Alexandra, Angelo Barra Moreira

Synopsis: The Amazon rain forest is a living laboratory for Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive research scientist living with a Brazilian native tribe. Campbell has accidentally discovered a flower extract that cures cancer, but has been unable to duplicate the formula. With the assistance of Read More

2/7/92
Billy Bathgate

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill

Synopsis: In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch Read More

11/1/91
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

2/8/91
The Russia House

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, Klaus Maria Brandauer, John Mahoney

Synopsis: "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems Read More

12/19/90
Dog It Was That Died

Crew: Screenwriter

1988
Empire of the Sun

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich Read More

12/9/87
Brazil

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild Read More

12/18/85
The Human Factor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a trap. Castle (Nicol Williamson) has a desk job in British intelligence. Around him are heavyweights like Col. Daintry (Richard Attenborough), Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Read More

1979
Despair

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch

Synopsis: Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set Read More

1978
Three Men in a Boat

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Curry, Michael Palin

Synopsis: Made for British television, the 1975 Three Men in a Boat is the latest filmization of the timeworn Jerome K. Jerome comic novel. The plot remains the same: a trio of Englishmen take a boat excursion along the Thames during a two-week holiday. The trio experiences several amusing misadventures Read More

1975
The Romantic Englishwoman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for The Romantic Englishwoman credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the people in his life as deftly as he can manipulate the characters in his imagination. The title character Elizabeth, played by Glenda Jackson, is the wife Read More

1975