Piers Haggard

Piers Haggard

Nacimiento : 1939-03-18, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2023-01-11

Historia

Piers Inigo Haggard OBE, was a British theatre, film and television director, although he worked mostly in the latter. Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire. His daughter is the actress Daisy Haggard.

Perfil

Piers Haggard

Películas

Folk Horror: Bosques sombríos y días de embrujo
Self
Una descripción y disección completa del súbgenero del "terror popular", con aportaciones de los principales creadores de cine de todo el mundo.
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Himself
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
Callan: This Man Alone
Himself
Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more
The Shell Seekers
Director
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Tigon Tales of Terror
Himself
Featurette on the Tigon Collection box set
Cold Enough for Snow
Director
Doting parents (Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Tom Wilkinson) must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships. Sequel to Eskimo Day.
Eskimo Day
Director
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
The Lifeforce Experiment
Director
A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
Cuatro ojos y seis pistolas
Director
La historia trata de un tímido óptico que llega a la legendaria ciudad de Tombstone. Una vez allí conocerá, e incluso ayudará, al mismísimo Wyatt Earp. Western en tono de comedia que, aunque contó con unos actores bastante acertados, pierde parte de su efectividad por culpa de una dirección un tanto apagada y muy por debajo de las posibilidades del guión. Divertida, aunque le falta chispa.
She'll Take Romance
Director
TV movie directed by Piers Haggard.
Back Home
Director
During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty must adapt to a whole new way of life.
The Fulfillment of Mary Gray
Director
Couple wants a baby but husband cannot produce on. Husband calls in his brother, hoping his brother will oblige and his wife will agree. He takes a trip to allow them to get to know each other. Will all turn out as hoped?
A Summer Story
Director
A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
Director
Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely dancer and a black prince, and a musical about a man and a woman having dog problems.
Visitors
Director
This was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its origins in Potter's 1983 play "Sufficient Carbohydrate," about two middle-aged executives, one English, one American, who both work for the same multinational food company. Together, they vacation with their wives on a Greek island. In the TV adaptation, British businessman Jack becomes bitter as he faces the prospect of seeing his family company taken over by an American corporation. On a holiday at an Italian villa with his new manager, Eddie, he begins to stir up antagonism prompting Eddie's son Clayton to fantasize a murderous outcome.
Knockback: 2
Director
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Knockback: 1
Director
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Desert of Lies
Director
Play by Howard Brenton. Two expeditions meet, both lost in the Kalahari desert
Veneno
Director
Al joven Philip le regala su tío una serpiente; el problema es que ignora que la tienda de animales, por error, le ha enviado una Mamba muy venenosa destinada a un científico. El mortal regalo coincide con un intento de secuestro del chico por parte de su chófer y su criada para obtener una cuantiosa suma de dinero por el rescate. El cerebro criminal, Jacmel, está detrás de la operación. Con la serpiente asesina suelta en casa y la policía en el exterior, el desenlace será terrorífico.
Mrs. Reinhardt
Director
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
El diabólico plan del Dr. Fu Manchu
Director
El anciano Fu Manchu está tratando de fabricar la poción de la eterna juventud que le permitirá dominar el mundo. Tiene que conseguir todos los ingredientes, entre los que se encuentra un valiosísimo diamante. Para ello pondrá en funcionamiento una red criminal, encargada de robar la joya. El detective Nayland Smith seguirá sus pasos...
The Quatermass Conclusion
Director
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
Fire Routine
Director
Jolly sing-song with an important message; switch off all appliances before going to bed, because your life could depend on it.
Carbon Copy
Director
In Howard Schuman’s contribution to the Against the Crowd series, Jamaican Albert Sharpe II (Warrington) is no longer at ease with the cultured white family who have virtually adopted him.
According to the Rules
Director
When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case is likely to have consequences for both the policeman and his family.
Vérité
Director
A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest
The Folk Singer
Director
A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.
Carson Country
Director
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Evelyn
Director
'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.
La Garra de Satan
Additional Writing
Siglo XVII. Unos niños juegan en los campos que rodean su pueblo y se encuentran con unos extraños restos que se asemejan a una garra. El juez local se hace cargo de investigar su procedencia. Al poco de iniciar la investigación la garra desaparece y una extraña locura se adueña de los habitantes del pueblo. Los niños, bajo las órdenes de la siniestra Angel Blake, empiezan a participar en rituales donde los más jóvenes y puros son mutilados y sacrificados. Sólo el juez podrá exorcizar las fuerzas demoníacas que están destrozando su comunidad.
La Garra de Satan
Director
Siglo XVII. Unos niños juegan en los campos que rodean su pueblo y se encuentran con unos extraños restos que se asemejan a una garra. El juez local se hace cargo de investigar su procedencia. Al poco de iniciar la investigación la garra desaparece y una extraña locura se adueña de los habitantes del pueblo. Los niños, bajo las órdenes de la siniestra Angel Blake, empiezan a participar en rituales donde los más jóvenes y puros son mutilados y sacrificados. Sólo el juez podrá exorcizar las fuerzas demoníacas que están destrozando su comunidad.
No Trams to Lime Street
Director
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
I Can't... I Can't...
Director
The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.
Poor Cherry
Director
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.