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Julian Sands
Born: 4th Jan 1958 Otley, Yorkshire, England, UK - Died 13th Jan 2023
Dept: Acting
Julian Sands (4 January 1958 — 13 January 2023) was an English actor, amassing a significantly successful career in film, television, and stage, gaining recognition for his roles in various British films throughout the 1980s. Sands' breakthrough came with his captivating performance in the 1985 romance film A Room with a View, directed by James Ivory. This period drama not only showcased his acting skills but also earned him widespread acclaim. Following this success, Sands continued to establish himself in the industry by taking on diverse roles in a variety of films like The Killing Fields (1984), Warlock (1989), and Arachnophobia (1990).
Known for his striking presence and ability to portray a wide range of characters, Sands made a lasting impact on both the stage and screen. He collaborated with renowned directors and participated in classic and contemporary theatrical productions. In addition to his work in film and stage, Sands also embraced various genres, showcasing his versatility in both dramatic and genre work. His dedication to his craft and his ability to bring complex characters to life earned him a respected place in the entertainment industry. Sands was also recognised for his philanthropic efforts and involvement in social causes.
Tragically, on 13 January 2023, Sands went missing while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. His remains were discovered in June of that year in the area he had been visiting.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 144
Film: 108 (75%)
Television: 36 (25%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Animation, War, Documentary, Family, Music, Soap, Kids, Western, War & Politics
Filmography
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The story of a high-profile relationship between an Academy Award-winning actress and her much-younger partner, who has yet to find his true career pa ... view
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2024
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside ... view
Character:
Levi
2023
Mona, a bodybuilder, looks like a woman obsessed by an unshapely ideal. The body is her inseparable container, her most faithful ally, her partner res ... view
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Kurt
2023
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences. ... view
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Gustafson
2023
It’s one of the most controversial, influential and groundbreaking horror satires of the 1980s. Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY told a terrifying, surreal s ... view
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Self
2023
Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmati ... view
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Orlandi
Original title: Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
2023
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him, ... view
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Rufus
2022
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people ... view
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Bruce
2021
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the gov ... view
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Chief Medical Officer
2021
A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the di ... view
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Heath
2021
Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there. ... view
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Lionel Foyster
2021
In the Wild West, the mysterious Death Rider enters a dangerous Vampire Sanctuary where the price of admission is a one female virgin. ... view
Character:
Count Holliday
2020
Get ready for a big shake-up when misfit bobbleheads take on trashy humans and a slobbery dog who crash their home with plans to swap a new baseball p ... view
Character:
Purrbles McCat (voice)
Original title: 11 barev ptáčete
2020
A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlá ... view
Character:
Self
2020
Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams ... view
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Saul Aaron
2019
A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beat ... view
Character:
Steven Essex
Original title: 夕霧花園
2019
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man. ... view
Character:
1980s Frederik Gemmell
Original title: Nabarvené ptáče
2019
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II. ... view
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Garbos
2019
A young orphan bear named Bongee befriends Princess Katrina. When the witch Bandrilla casts a spell on the people of the Kingdom preventing them from ... view
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King Jason (voice)
May 2019 (first aired)
A pair of cash-strapped newlyweds accept a lucrative but morally dubious offer from a mysterious female benefactor. ... view
Character:
Liam Strom (2 ep.)
Original title: Trautmann
2018
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert ... view
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Tilson, Man City President
2018
A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure. ... view
Character:
Tony ‘Sweet Cheeks’ Smith
2018
Ruggero, a meek young man, impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine. A police investigation engulfs everyon ... view
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Officer Jonta
2017
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncrat ... view
Character:
Philip Leonides
Jul 2017 (first aired)
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and St ... view
Character:
Caspar Nicholson (1 ep.)
Jul 2017 (first aired)
The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where hi ... view
Character:
Barrett Emerson (4 ep.)
2017
An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in ... view
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Narrator (voice)
2017
A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family ... view
Character:
Lambert
Original title: El elegido
2016
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret ... view
Character:
Kotov
2016
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agen ... view
Character:
Evgeny
2015
Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968. ... view
Character:
John Le Mesurier
2015
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture. ... view
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Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')
2014
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r ... view
Character:
Winslow Cunard
2014
A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe ... view
Character:
Sam Citkowitz
Original title: G.H.B.
2014
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai. ... view
Character:
Le client
Sep 2014 (first aired)
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. Bu ... view
Character:
Gerald Crane (2 ep.)
2014
Michael White might just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, he produced over 300 shows ... view
Character:
Self
May 2014 (first aired)
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. ... view
Character:
William Jagger (8 ep.)
2014
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez t ... view
Character:
Victore Representative
Sep 2013 (first aired)
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and t ... view
Character:
Sutton Ross (1 ep.)
2013
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss. ... view
Character:
Cutter
Mar 2013 (first aired)
The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour te ... view
Character:
Lord Kilmartin (2 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered ... view
Character:
Priest (3 ep.)
Original title: Il turno di notte lo fanno le stelle
2012
Matteo and Sonia meet in a hospital on the eve of their respective open heart surgeries. They share a common passion for mountaineering and make a vow ... view
Character:
Mark
2012
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happe ... view
Character:
Hackett
Sep 2012 (first aired)
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in reha ... view
Character:
Jasper Wells (1 ep.)
Original title: Hirokin
2012
In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission ... view
Character:
Griffin
2011
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto ... view
Character:
Young Henrik Vanger
Sep 2011 (first aired)
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York Ci ... view
Character:
Alistair Wesley (1 ep.)
2011
In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He me ... view
Character:
Peter McNaughton
2011
During a game of catch-the-boy-and-kiss-him, Emmy, a precocious ten-year-old, kisses another little girl, Alice. ... view
Character:
Bernard
2010
A romantic mood is unexpectedly ruined when Robert - a fastidious man of the near-future - dines with his lover Melissa. ... view
Character:
Robert
2009
King Richard is away fighting the Crusade, his brother Prince John has been left in charge. In order to further international diplomatic relations wit ... view
Character:
Malcolm
Aug 2009 (first aired)
Bollywood Hero is an American television miniseries which aired on the IFC in three parts on August 6–8, 2009. The miniseries was shot in Mumbai and ... view
Character:
Reg Hunt (3 ep.)
Mar 2009 (first aired)
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New Yo ... view
Character:
Teddy Farrow (1 ep.)
2009
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend. ... view
Character:
Franklin McVeigh
Jan 2009 (first aired)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Ke ... view
Character:
Damian Nolan (2 ep.)
2008
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro ... view
Character:
Peter the Goatherder
2008
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer... ... view
Character:
Nick Compton
2008
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to s ... view
Character:
Doci
Feb 2008 (first aired)
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour ... view
Character:
Hector Matrick (5 ep.)
2007
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tish ... view
Character:
Greco Montgomery
Mar 2007 (first aired)
Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada a ... view
Character:
Javier Mendoza (2 ep.)
2006
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind. ... view
Character:
Dr. Hal Burns
Oct 2006 (first aired)
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have ... view
Character:
Miles Castner (1 ep.)
Original title: La Piste
2006
After her mothers death, Grace, 14, decides to go back to Africa to find her father whom she hasn't seen since her parents divorced. After his plane c ... view
Character:
Gary
2005
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime. ... view
Character:
Bill
Sep 2005 (first aired)
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of ... view
Character:
Ethan Clark (2 ep.)
2005
In 1963, flamboyant, eccentric English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan is made 'literary manager' of London's National Theatre. His views on censorship ( ... view
Character:
Laurence Olivier
Dec 2004 (first aired)
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and rela ... view
Character:
Thomas Royde (1 ep.)
Nov 2004 (first aired)
The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the ... view
Character:
Hagen (2 ep.)
2004
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a ... view
Character:
Hagen
Original title: Romasanta
2004
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The ... view
Character:
Manuel Romasanta
Jan 2004 (first aired)
A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles. ... view
Character:
Nick Barashkov (1 ep.)
2003
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existenc ... view
Character:
Packard Schmidt
2003
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers. ... view
Character:
Snakehead
Oct 2002 (first aired)
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ... view
Character:
Klemens von Metternich (3 ep.)
Sep 2002 (first aired)
Ozzy & Drix, also known as The Fantastic Voyage Adventures of Osmosis Jones & Drixenol and Osmosis Jones: The Animated Series, is an American animated ... view
Character:
Penicillin G (voice) (1 ep.)
2002
Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of ... view
Character:
Doctor Lenz
Jan 2002 (first aired)
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly ha ... view
Character:
Nick Hardaway (3 ep.)
Nov 2001 (first aired)
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a si ... view
Character:
Vladimir Bierko (11 ep.)
Oct 2001 (first aired)
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s fina ... view
Character:
Jor-El (2 ep.)
Sep 2001 (first aired)
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological ... view
Character:
Philip Reinhardt (1 ep.)
2001
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu. ... view
Character:
Tour Guide
Sep 2000 (first aired)
Jackie Chan teams up with his 11-year-old fictive-niece, Jade, traveling the globe to locate a dozen magical talismans before the sinister Dark Hand. ... view
Character:
Valmont (voice) (25 ep.)
Mayor Valmont (voice) (1 ep.)
2000
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants ... view
Character:
Louis XIV
2000
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, i ... view
Character:
Quentin
2000
Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Tai ... view
Character:
The sailor
2000
Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive ... view
Character:
Dr. Dominik Broussard
2000
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel. ... view
Character:
Terence Scopey
Sep 1999 (first aired)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate ... view
Character:
Barclay Pallister (1 ep.)
1999
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life. ... view
Character:
Adult Nic
Original title: Il fantasma dell'Opera
1998
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a m ... view
Character:
The Phantom
1998
A beautiful woman has spent a lifetime obsessing about a hit-and-run she caused years ago. She knows she struck something, but left the scene before d ... view
Character:
Michael James
1997
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle tr ... view
Character:
Nurse Chris
1997
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like ... view
Character:
Roderick
1997
An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn ... view
Character:
Rev. Basil March
Jul 1997 (first aired)
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien de ... view
Character:
The Doci (1 ep.)
1996
A mysterious spacecraft has crash-landed somewhere in rural Oregon, immediately drawing the attention of relentless government agents. Meanwhile, comp ... view
Character:
Ken
Aug 1996 (first aired)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series. ... view
Character:
Kreed (voice) (1 ep.)
1995
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, ... view
Character:
Yuri
1995
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police a ... view
Character:
Clive Potter
1995
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Mario und der Zauberer
1994
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to re ... view
Character:
Professor Fuhrmann
1994
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood. ... view
Character:
Finn Macha
Sep 1994 (first aired)
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The se ... view
Character:
Bradford Whittle (1 ep.)
1994
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being ... view
Character:
Tom Gilbert
1993
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev ... view
Character:
Warlock
1993
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that t ... view
Character:
Dr. Nick Cavanaugh
1993
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman. ... view
Character:
Alex
1992
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems. ... view
Character:
Mark Constable
1992
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds t ... view
Character:
Mr. Cooper
1991
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meetin ... view
Character:
Yves Cloquet
Original title: Cattiva
1991
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously devel ... view
Character:
Gustav
Original title: La villa del venerdì
1991
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her ... view
Character:
Stefan
1991
A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man. ... view
Character:
Alcee Arobin
1991
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand. ... view
Character:
Franz Liszt
1990
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider ... view
Character:
Dr. James Atherton
Original title: Il sole anche di notte
1990
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duch ... view
Character:
Sergio Giuramondo
1989
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a ... view
Character:
Wolfgang Leighton
1989
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th ... view
Character:
Warlock
Original title: Manika, une vie plus tard
1989
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former ... view
Character:
Father Daniel Mahoney
1989
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and So ... view
Character:
Maj. Stepan Gregorivitj Kirilenko
1988
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ... view
Character:
Julian
1988
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafus ... view
Character:
Dr. Harrison Steele
1987
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the ... view
Character:
Kit
1987
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set ... view
Character:
Mr. Sands (segment "The Room")
1987
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a ... view
Character:
Percy Shelley
1986
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st ... view
Character:
George Emerson
Feb 1986 (first aired)
A two-part minseries about a beautiful woman who, at the turn of the century, is kidnapped and sold into a Turkish harem where, as she struggles to pr ... view
Character:
Forest (2 ep.)
1986
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly ge ... view
Character:
Charles
1985
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of gettin ... view
Character:
Dr. Murray
1985
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who me ... view
Character:
Sandy
1985
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to b ... view
Character:
Laurence Hunningford
Dec 1984 (first aired)
Adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway. ... view
Character:
Gerald (2 ep.)
1984
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American ... view
Character:
Jon Swain
Nov 1984 (first aired)
Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young schoolboy is given a box for safekeeping by a mysterious ma ... view
Character:
Greek Soldier (1 ep.)
1984
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with he ... view
Character:
Colin Gilchrist Fisher
Jul 1983 (first aired)
A bored British barrister's affair with a rich American, discovered by his wife, ends in murder. ... view
Character:
Guy Lough (3 ep.)
1983
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malay ... view
Character:
Climbing Sailor
1982
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot. ... view
Character:
Groom
Oct 1970 (first aired)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha ... view
Character:
Groom (1 ep.)