Ian Richardson

All Movies of Ian Richardson

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  6.3
  Becoming Jane
  The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is a feisty 20-year-old emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable--m...
  Character: Judge Langlois

   2007

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  Hogfather (TV Miniseries)
  It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.
   2006

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  6.5
  Twice Upon a Time
   2006

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  8.1
  Bleak House (TV Miniseries)
  TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn, who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Ja...
  Character:  Chancellor 5 episodes, 2005

   2005

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  7.3
  Merry Christmas
  This movie is inspired by a true story, which happened during the First World War, for Christmas Eve 1914, in many different places of the battlefront. When war breaks out in the lull of summer 1914, it surprises and pulls million...
  Character: El Obispo

   2005

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  7.0
  The White Knight Stratagem (Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes) (TV)
  When Sir John Starr complains that the investigation into his son's murder is not producing results, the Chief Constable asks Dr. Joseph Bell to assist. Bell agrees but there is some animosity with the officer in charge of the cas...
   2001

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  The Kingdom of Bones (Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes) (TV)
  Doyle assists his friend Reuben Proctor who has recently acquired an Egyptian mummy. They arrange for a gala evening at the museum where two eminent professors - Doyle's mentor Dr. Bell being one of them - will unveil the embalmed...
  Character: Dr. Joseph Bell

   2001

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  6.4
  From Hell
  It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on ...
   2001

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  8.0
  Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Miniseries)
  5 Episodes. Certain events which had an impact on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while he was still a medical student under the supervision of Dr. Bell, his teacher and mentor, on whom the character of Sherlock Holmes is partly drawn fro
  Character:  Dr. Joseph Bell 5 episodes, 2000-2001

   2000

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  Gormenghast (TV Miniseries)
  A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.
   2000

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  4.5
  102 Dalmatians
  After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison a changed woman. Devoted to dogs and good causes, she is delighted that Chloe, her parole officer, has a dalmatian family and connections with a dog charity. But the s...
  Character: Sr. Torte

   2000

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  4.9
  Alice Through the Looking Glass (TV)
  This version of the classic Lewis Carroll tale stars Kate Beckinsale as Alice. Though Beckinsale plays a more mature Alice, she maintains the same childlike innocence that characterized Carroll's precocious child protagonist. Beck...
  Character: Wasp

   1998

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  7.2
  Dark City
  Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective hot on his trail and a psychiatrist skulking ar...
  Character: Mr Book

   1998

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  5.1
  A Knight in Camelot (TV)
  Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
  Character: Merlin

   1998

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  6.0
  Incognito
  Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture h
   1997

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  7.1
  The Woman in White (TV)
  Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, lov...
  Character: Mr. Fairlie

   1997

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  4.5
  B.A.P.S.
  Two southern-fried, gold-digging Georgia peaches (also known as "Black American Princesses") hit Hollywood to audition for a music video to raise cash. But they really hit the jackpot when the director's unctuous nephew involves t...
   1997

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  The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV)
  TV Mini-Series (1996-). 8 episodes
  Character:  David Lloyd George / ... 4 episodes, 1996

   1996

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  6.1
  Catherine the Great (TV)
  In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's unexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive son and heir of the Russian czarina Elisabeth, from whom she learns the cy...
   1995

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  The Final Cut (House of Cards III) (TV Miniseries)
  Francis Urquhart is too experienced a politician not to know that everything must end, even his long career as British prime minister. In order to secure his retirement and establish monument to himself, he takes part in negotiati...
   1995

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  To Play the King (House of Cards II) (TV Miniseries)
  In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows of his crimes is either on his side...
   1993

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  6.2
  M. Butterfly
  In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
   1993

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  An Ungentlemanly Act (TV)
  Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and m...
   1992

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  Year of the Comet
  An extremely rare bottle of wine (bottled during the appearance of the Great Comet of 1811) is discovered. Margaret Harwood is sent to retrieve it so it can be sold at auction. Oliver Plexico is assigned as her travel guide/bodygu...
   1992

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  The Plot to Kill Hitler (TV)
  "The Plot to Kill Hitler" is a historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government. Lead by Wehrmacht Colonel Count von ...
   1990

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  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 a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful st...
   1990

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  Chillers (TV Series)
  Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. Episode 1: The Cat Brought It In Episode 2: Sauce for the Goose Episode 3: Old Folks at Home Episode 4:...
  Character:  Lee Mandeville 1 episode, 1990

   1990

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  8.0
  House of Cards (TV Miniseries)
  Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip, manipulates things and people to achieve his ambitions in the Houses of Parliament, all the while keeping his hand carefully hidden behind the scenes. But Mattie Storin, a young reporter, may be getti
   1990

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  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the qu...
   1990

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  7.5
  The Phantom of the Opera (TV)
  Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the Phantom, in a musical adaptation of Arthur Ko...
  Character:  Alain Choleti 2 episodes, 1990

   1990

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  Burning Secret
  Set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baro...
   1988

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  6.3
  The Fourth Protocol
  Caine plays a senior British administrator who is part of the intelligence establishment. When his findings offend his superiors he is reassigned to a customs post. While there he finds odd things showing up, which might well be p...
  Character: Sir Nigel Irvine

   1987

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  Monsignor Quixote (Great Performances) (TV)
  In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene Quixote is an old spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the village's mayor and his car called Rosinante. On ...
   1987

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  Zafarrancho en Cambridge (TV Miniseries)
  For the first time in five hundred years, the master of Porterhouse fails to name his successor on his deathbed before dying. He succumbs to a Porterhouse Blue - a stroke brought about by overindulgence in the college's legendary ...
   1987

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  6.9
  Cry Freedom
  An epic drama based on the true story of newspaper editor Donald Woods' investigation into the murder of nationalist leader Steven Biko. Mistrustful of each other at first, but joined in their common desire to end apartheid, the b...
  Character: State Prosecutor

   1987

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  Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
  3 episodes.
   1986

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  8.2
  Brazil
  The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-relia...
  Character: Mr. Warrenn

   1985

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  Mistral's Daughter (TV Miniseries)
  Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his ...
   1984

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  The Master of Ballantrae (TV)
  The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
   1984

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV)
  Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
   1983

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  The Woman in White (TV Miniseries)
  TV Mini-Series. 5 episodes. In Victorian England, Laura and her half-sister Marian are entwined in a terrifying web of deceit. Laura's doppelganger, a mysterious woman dressed all in white, may hold the key to unlock the mystery.
   1982

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  Private Schulz (TV Series)
  TV Series (1981). 6 episodes. The Time - WWII, the place - Germany. The Germans have a plan to destroy the British economy by flooding the country with forged £5 notes.
   1981

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  Gauguin the Savage (TV)
  Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentement in Tahiti.
   1980

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  Churchill and the Generals (TV)
  The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
   1979

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  7.3
  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV Miniseries)
  George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence...
  Character:  Bill Haydon 5 episodes, 1979

   1979

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  7.2
  A Deadly Game
  Character: Cuthbertson

   1979

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  6.3
  Man of La Mancha
  In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the In...
  Character: The Padre

   1972

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  Eyeless in Gaza (TV Miniseries)
   1971

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  7.0
  Marat/Sade
  The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life...
   1967