Ian Richardson

A memorial of sorts to the plinth on St. Peter's Hill, Grantham, which stood empty for two years before a statue of Margaret Thatcher was mounted in 2022.

It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).

Na sociedade inglesa de 1795, era o dinheiro que fazia funcionar a sociedade. O Senhor e a Sra. Austen planeiam casar a sua filha, Jane Austen, com o rico sobrinho de uma aristocrata, mas a jovem rebelde quer casar por amor. É neste momento que conhece o irlandês Tom Lefroy, um estudante de direito, bonito, inteligente e... pobre.

Abanville d'Alice, famosa atriz de teatro de Londres, e Louis Ruinard, diretor cult francês, foram o casal mais famoso dos anos 70. Os cinco filmes nos quais atuaram juntos fizeram enorme sucesso e tornaram-se cultuados mas a história de amor termina de repente. Trinta anos depois Alice é convidada a entregar um prêmio a Louis quando este vai a Londres filmar uma comédia sobre hipocrisia e frustração.

The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace's mother's ashes on the Yorkshire Moors.

The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. In this episode the same characters go on a treasure hunt, and end up with their car being washed out to sea on a beach. Marcus (a businessman who deals with Dave's company) first appears in this episode.

Natal de 1914, em plena 1ª Guerra Mundial. A neve e presentes da família e do exército ocupam as trincheiras francesas, escocesas e alemãs, envolvidas no conflito. Durante a noite os soldados saem de suas trincheiras e deixam seus rifles de lado, para apertar as mãos do inimigo e confraternizar o Natal. É o suficiente para mudar a vida de um padre anglicano, um tenente francês, um grande tenor alemão e sua companheira, uma soprano.

This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.

Mais do que uma biografia, Nero é a recriação de um período de mudanças radicais vividas por Roma durante o governo de um dos seus mais famosos e enigmáticos líderes. Durante os 31 anos em que comandou o imbatível Império Romano, Nero enfrentou poderosos inimigos externos, além da inveja dentro de sua própria família, que fez de tudo para destruí-lo. Quando criança, cresceu entre homens e mulheres escravas, e acabou se apaixonando por uma delas. Mas quando chamado pelo dever, o jovem é obrigado a abrir mão de seu amor, para assumir o poder e se casar com alguém à altura de suas raízes nobres. Depois de proclamado imperador, a loucura passa tomar conta do novo líder, colocando em risco todo o Império Romano.

Trapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ... but when she arrives, she realises that Cavendish is key in a plot to summon the Daemons back to the Earth. With time running out, Kate discovers that sometimes even the familiar can turn out to be your worst nightmare.

Dramatically presented and narrated by the late internationally renowned actor of stage and screen Ian Richardson, with exquisite Shakespeare readings by Britain’s most successful and award winning actress, Dame Judi Dench, Life Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

No final do século 19, uma série de assassinatos deixa prostitutas mutiladas em uma parte pobre de Londres. Abberline, um detetive problemático e misterioso que possui habilidades mediúnicas, investiga os crimes para descobrir a verdadeira identidade do assassino conhecido como Jack, o Estripador.

Após uma terapia por hipnose e acreditando estar curada, Cruella de Vil é libertada da prisão e se propõe a começar uma nova vida. As coisas estão indo bem para Cruella que está ocupada ajudando cães desabrigados da rua. Porem, quando o relógio Big Ben bate as horas, as coisas ficam ruins. A cura hipnótica é revertida e Cruella está de volta. E desta vez ela está determinada a fazer seu casaco com pele malhada que ela sempre quis.

Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, after meeting him as a medical student in Edinburgh. This TV movie served as the pilot for the later released minisseries Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes produced by the BBC. The series then picks up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is still based in Edinburgh. The series name in the pilot was Mr Bell and Mr Doyle instead Murder Rooms. Some of the cast of the pilot was also changed in the series.

A inglesa Anna Leonowens que junto com seu filho de 10 anos, Louis, viaja de Londres para o exótico reino do Sião, em 1863. Contratada para lecionar as crianças do reino, Anna logo descobre que seu maior desafio será domar o obstinado e autoritário imperador de Sião. Ao mesmo tempo em que cresce a amizade entre a governanta e o arrogante monarca, um feiticeiro malvado conspira pra roubar o trono.

Alice (Kate Beckinsale) cai no sono após ler uma história de ninar para a filha. Caminhando através do espelho, ela entra em um novo e mágico mundo, onde encontra figuras muito estranhas e divertidas, como as Rainhas Branca e Vermelha. Adaptação moderna do livro "Alice através de espelho", continuação de "Alice no País das Maravilhas", de Lewis Carroll.

Uma cientista bem-humorada obtém sucesso com uma de suas invenções mais ousadas: ela consegue viajar através do tempo e vai parar na Inglaterra da Idade Média. Lá, se mete em muitas confusões e ainda conhece Merlin e o rei Artur.

Um homem luta com as lembranças de seu passado, que incluem uma esposa da qual não se lembra e um mundo de pesadelo sem um sol.

Harry Donovan, um falsificador que pinta Rembrandt, se apaixona por uma especialista em artes que seus clientes contratam para verificar o quadro que ele pintou. Enganado e acusado de assassinato, ele tenta provar sua inocência.

'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

Duas garçonetes de um restaurante na Geórgia decidem viajar para Los Angeles, em busca de dinheiro para financiar o projeto dos seus sonhos. Lá, elas conhecem um milionário de Hollywood.

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, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.

During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father who he has never met. While there he falls in love with the daughter of an aristocrat.

Kim Jameson is a university professor while Kate Jameson - also known as Dominique, Kim’s twin sister - is a troubled model working in Paris. Kate is a drunk, in desperate need of rehabilitation. Kim checks her twin sister into a rehab center, agreeing to fill in for Dominique during her absence, but by doing so takes on more than she bargained for.

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.

Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males

Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.

Rene Gallimard é um diplomada francês a serviço em Pequim. Ao assistir a uma apresentação da ópera "Madame Butterfly" de Puccini ele fica obcecado pela graça e beleza da contara Song Liling. Gallimard passa então a persegui-la por todos os lugares, envolvendo-se cada vez mais com o exótico mundo ca cultura chinesa. Quando finalmente, a força de sua paixão transforma-se em um intenso romance, ele acaba conduzindo a um jogo imprevisivel de interesses politicos e revelações que mudarão por completo sua vida.

Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meats a young lively American.

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 make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend the Governor Rex Hunt, his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.

Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the year it was bottled, 1811, which was known for the Great Comet of 1811, and also as one of the best years in history for European wine.

Dois personagens menores da peça "Hamlet" tropeçam sem saber que suas vidas estão roteirizadas e que são incapazes de desviar de seu destino.

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 stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.

A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.

Na África do Sul dos anos 70, Donald Woods, um jornalista branco, faz amizade com Stephen Biko, um corajoso ativista negro contra o apartheid. Biko é executado em 1977 e Donald, exilado, dedica-se a divulgar a luta do amigo pela liberdade.

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against years ago. But his life is about to take another twist as the british arrive and seem set on an execution...

John Preston é um agente britânico com a tarefa de impedir que os russos detonem uma bomba nuclear ao lado de uma base americana no Reino Unido. Os russos esperam que isso quebre o "relacionamento especial" entre UK e USA.

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.

Sam Lowry vive num Estado totalitário, controlado pelos computadores e pela burocracia. Neste Estado, que lida com o terrorismo, todos são governados por fichas e cartões de crédito e ainda precisam pagar por tudo, até mesmo a permanência na prisão. Neste mundo opressivo, Sam acaba se apaixonando por Jill, uma terrorista.

The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England for the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

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.

A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.

A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's best technicolor detective, except for the victim-the 20th-century lord of the manor, Sheik Ali Ben Hassim.

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 contentment in Tahiti.

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.

Danton 's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Biichner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, the leaders of the extremists, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on ' the wild horses of the Revolution.'

The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.

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 Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other prisoners gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, and begin a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense--the story of Don Quixote.

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.

Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a generation of theatre-goers. The design was dominated by a huge oak tree, but the production is most memorable for Vanessa Redgrave’s luminous Rosalind, supported by Max Adrian and Ian Bannen.

Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the Irish midlands. His only consolation are his visits to Dr. Drudy, a psychiatrist whom he can tell about the love of his life - the President of Ireland. A new motorway puts Timmy's guesthouse off the map. A strange Spanish pilot named Marcel comes to visit and create havoc in the guesthouse. Timmy goes to a scriptwriters' conference where only fast, urban and up-beat stories are expected, nothing like Timmy's own story. Uneasy in any of the four provinces of Ireland, he desperately tries to reach the Fifth Province, the province of magic, of passion, of possibility.