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Justice (2003)
Character: Palm Sunday
A comic strip writer in NYC, still grieving over the death of a friend in 9/11, gets his publisher to agree to a limited run of "Justice", a comic book about an ordinary person who is a hero.
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Watch on the Rhine (2021)
Character: Kurt
Written and set during the rise of Hitler’s Germany, Watch on the Rhine is a play about an American family, suddenly awakened to the danger threatening its liberty.
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A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
Character: Son as Boy
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.
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Die Wasserfälle von Slunj (2002)
Character: Donald Clayton
Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the authorized signatory is drawn into the private life of father and son. An orderly world - or so it seems. You make a career, maintain business relationships, win or lose a lover - and don't want to see the cracks and voids in the foundation of society.
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Not Only But Always (2004)
Character: Alan Bennett
The story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing primarily on Cook, the film traces the pair from their first meeting through their career as part of the Beyond the Fringe review, their television series Not Only... But Also and various other projects before their later estrangement as Moore became a successful Hollywood film star and Cook remained in the UK.
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The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
Character: Richard Owen
One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".
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Adam Bede (1992)
Character: Seth Bede
Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.
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Gavre Princip - Himmel unter Steinen (1990)
Character: N/A
On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo.
His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe.
Who is the assassin?
Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brought into the center of world attention.
The subject of the film is not the historical background but rather the psychological makeup of PRINCIP at the age of seventeen.
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August (2008)
Character: Barton
Two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs, attempt to keep their company afloat as the stock market begins to collapse in August 2001, one month prior to the 9/11 attacks.
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Character: Obsequious Man
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
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Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
Character: Young Peter
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes (2006)
Character: Cuthbert
Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
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The Speed of Thought (2011)
Character: Alexei
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Mía Maestro) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Character: John Watson
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
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Act Naturally (2011)
Character: Cory Beck
When two estranged stepsisters inherit their father's nudist colony, getting back to nature has never been so completely unnatural.
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An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Character: Geoffrey
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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The Dictator (2012)
Character: BP Executive
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Say My Name (2018)
Character: Father Donald Davies
Mary and Statton's one-night stand at a hotel gets interrupted by a robbery, and the complete strangers are forced to help each other navigate the seedy underbelly of a sleepy Welsh island in order to get back their stolen property.
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)
Character: Cub Scout
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)
Character: Dmitri
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.
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Cor, Blimey! (2000)
Character: Orsino
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Nutcracker (2010)
Character: Gielgud (voice)
In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
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The Auteur Theory (1999)
Character: George Sand
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
Character: Roger Rattigan
Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he—and the roster of hot new dancers he’ll have to whip into shape—be able to pull it off?
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