Nigel Hawthorne
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-04-05
Locus Natus: Hertfordshire, England, UK
Et ut:
History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
release : 1981.06.12popularis : 21.006
Firefox
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as...
release : 1982.06.18popularis : 16.825
The Black Cauldron
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an...
release : 1985.07.24popularis : 28.323
The Plague Dogs
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search...
release : 1982.10.01popularis : 8.754
The Madness of King George
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...
release : 1994.12.28popularis : 11.044
Richard III
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by...
release : 1995.12.29popularis : 6.822
Higher Love
Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine...
release : 2001.05.02popularis : 1.177
Amistad
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...
release : 1997.12.10popularis : 5.915
Demolition Man
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are...
release : 1993.10.08popularis : 20.934
Madeline
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it,...
release : 1998.07.10popularis : 9.396
The Winslow Boy
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his...
release : 1999.03.18popularis : 5.276
Tarzan
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane...
release : 1999.06.18popularis : 63.718
Once Upon a Halloween
On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you...
release : 2005.09.26popularis : 2.885
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman...
release : 1996.10.25popularis : 7.633
The Big Brass Ring
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his...
release : 1999.04.20popularis : 1.469
The Sailor's Return
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife....
release : 1978.11.15popularis : 1.191
Call Me Claus
When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets...
release : 2001.12.03popularis : 6.336
The Object of My Affection
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him,...
release : 1998.04.17popularis : 15.692
The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
release : 1975.05.04popularis : 2.539
Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey
The rise of modern Turkey under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Atatürk. He established peace on the borders of Turkey for the...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 0.757
The Shawl
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her...
release : 1989.03.14popularis : 1.009
Murder in Mind
The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the...
release : 1997.08.01popularis : 1.325
Russia's War - Blood Upon the Snow
An account of the Eastern Front, epic in scale and savagery, as Soviets experienced it and Stalin commanded it.
release : 1995.01.27popularis : 2.054
Sweeney 2
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the...
release : 1978.03.30popularis : 1.973
Turtle Diary
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an...
release : 1985.12.06popularis : 3.779
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to...
release : 1992.08.14popularis : 3.954
Memoirs of a Survivor
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic...
release : 1981.09.01popularis : 3.032
The Clandestine Marriage
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an...
release : 1999.11.12popularis : 0.764
Relatively Speaking
It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves...
release : 1989.12.24popularis : 0.505
King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is...
release : 1990.05.25popularis : 2.31
A Reasonable Man
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
release : 1999.08.13popularis : 1.08
Animal Stories
A classic series of 52 x 5-minute poems, affectionately narrated by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne in the UK and re-voiced for Disney in the USA by...
release : 2005.08.01popularis : 0.844
The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 2.994
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
release : 1982.06.13popularis : 2.156
The Critic
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical...
release : 1982.08.28popularis : 1.946
The Trials of Oz
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
release : 1991.11.09popularis : 1.423
Victoria & Albert
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and...
release : 2001.08.26popularis : 4.358
Jenny's War
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help...
release : 1985.10.25popularis : 0.867
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...
release : 1978.11.06popularis : 1.357
Pope John Paul II
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in...
release : 1984.04.22popularis : 1.899
Inside
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the...
release : 1996.08.25popularis : 1.99
A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
release : 1982.04.26popularis : 5.088
Destiny
A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election and later discovers his financed by the corporation...
release : 1978.01.31popularis : 1.507
Occupations
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.379
A Handful of Time
Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth...
release : 1989.10.12popularis : 1.855
The Knowledge
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
release : 1979.01.01popularis : 3.253
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
release : 1997.12.07popularis : 0.646
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
release : 1982.12.01popularis : 18.58
The Spirit of Man
In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
release : 1989.08.23popularis : 0.921
A Rod of Iron
Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.
release : 1980.04.29popularis : 0.628
Late-Flowering Lust
This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman. Altogether, this...
release : 1994.05.08popularis : 0.374
Flea Bites
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus
release : 1992.01.26popularis : 0.686
Spiderweb
A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 0.598
S*P*Y*S
Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
release : 1974.09.05popularis : 1.911
A Tale of Two Cities
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles...
release : 1980.12.02popularis : 2.534
Watership Down
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
release : 1978.10.14popularis : 16.64
The Misanthrope
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set...
release : 1980.01.27popularis : 0.88
Tartuffe, or The Imposter
Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
release : 1983.07.28popularis : 1.191
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...
release : 1982.02.02popularis : 3.688
Portrait or Bust
Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.
release : 1994.04.04popularis : 0.276
Alma Mater
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is...
release : 1971.01.07popularis : 0.527
The Tempest
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air....
release : 1980.02.27popularis : 3.478
The House
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an...
release : 1984.09.27popularis : 1.546
Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected
This special one-off documentary celebrates the past and present of hit sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Exploring the shows in some...
release : 2013.01.15popularis : 2.87
Dead on Time
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 1.064
The Emergency Channel
Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do...
release : 1973.11.08popularis : 2.116
Jessie
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his...
release : 1980.12.23popularis : 0.881
Child of Hope
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to...
release : 1975.04.24popularis : 1.237
The Floater
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
release : 1975.05.29popularis : 1.134
Buffet
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a...
release : 1976.11.02popularis : 1.184
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large...
release : 1981.01.20popularis : 1.21
Protest
A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.
release : 1981.12.01popularis : 1.035
Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...
release : 1958.02.18popularis : 3.654