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  • Tippi Hedren stunned by Toby Jones' Hitchcock - 3 August 2012
    -Actress Tippi Hedren froze with terror the first time she heard Toby Jones' pitch-perfect Alfred Hitchcock voice for new movie The Girl - because it brought back awful memories of her time with the movie mogul.-Hedren filmed The Birds and Marnie with Hitchcock and

Toby Jones - what members say


  • Amazing Grace
  • Amazing Grace review by A customer from Lancaster, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good Story Well Told 16 September 2007
    ...The roles of Gambon and Finney are mere cameo - walk on, nothing more. Toby Jones crops up but his part is as minor as theirs - so that leaves the rest of the cast who p...   Read customer review
  • The Painted Veil
  • The Painted Veil review by nutcase from Lakes
    Rated - 3.0 stars Decent narrative with good performances 22 August 2007
    ...Naomi Watts does well - even against Edward Norton. Toby Jones goes from newbie in 'Infamous' to everyone's favourite supporting character. The story is well told and lea...   Read customer review
  • A Harlot's Progress
  • A Harlot's Progress review by crispin40 from Stirling, Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Excellent 17 January 2008
    ...I was impressed by the quality of acting of Toby Jones as 'Quilp' in the excellent production of the Old Curiosity Shop on TV just before Christmas so I thought I'd see ...   Read customer review

Toby Jones - filmography


  • Red Lights on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Cillian Murphy,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Rodrigo Cortes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her young assistant, Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origin. Simon Silver (Robert De Niro), a legendary blind psychic,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,808 members
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  • The Girl (2012)
    Starring: Toby Jones,  Imelda Staunton,  Sienna Miller
    Director: Julian Jarrold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers and creativity in 1962 when he chose an unknown fashion model to star in his most ambitious film - The Birds. But while crafting Tippi Hedren into the perfect Hitchcock blonde of his imagination, he became obsessed with the impossible dream of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 60 members
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  • Titanic on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Linus Roache,  Geraldine Somerville,  Celia Imrie
    Director: Jon Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Titanic is the extraordinary re-telling of that doomed voyage, cleverly weaving action, mystery and romantic plots featuring fictional and historical characters, before coming together in an explosive and unforgettable finale. Produced by BAFTA winner Nigel Stafford Clark and Chris Thompson. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 136 members
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  • Red Lights - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Cillian Murphy,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Rodrigo Cortes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her young assistant, Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origin. Simon Silver (Robert De Niro), a legendary blind psychic,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,147 members
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  • Titanic - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Linus Roache,  Geraldine Somerville,  Celia Imrie
    Director: Jon Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Titanic is the extraordinary re-telling of that doomed voyage, cleverly weaving action, mystery and romantic plots featuring fictional and historical characters, before coming together in an explosive and unforgettable finale. Produced by BAFTA winner Nigel Stafford Clark and Chris Thompson. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 154 members
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  • My Week With Marilyn on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Toby Jones,  Judi Dench,  Michelle Williams
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, who worked as an assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl', the 1956 British-made film starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Monroe (Michelle Williams) has recently married playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), and filming coincides ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 17,013 members
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  • The Rite on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Alice Braga,  Anthony Hopkins,  Ciarán Hinds
    Director: Mikael Håfström
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the Devil's reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth. Inspired by true events, the film follows seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who is sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,309 members
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  • Your Highness on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Charles Dance,  Noah Huntley,  Rasmus Hardiker
    Director: David Gordon Green
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 10,617 members
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  • The Rite - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Toby Jones,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: Mikael Håfström
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Horror drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin O'Donoghue. The film is based on the book by Matt Baglio, inspired by real events, that follows the story of an American parish priest, Father Gary Thomas (Donoghue), who travels to Rome to train as an exorcist at a Vatican-associated university. As ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,149 members
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  • Mo on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julie Walters,  David Haig,  Gary Lewis
    Director: Philip Martin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Julie Walters stars in this Channel 4 biopic based on the life and career of late politician Mo Mowlam. The film charts Mowlam's rise to prominence in Tony Blair's New Labour government and her role in helping to bring the Good Friday peace agreement for Northern Ireland to fruition in 1998, while ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 747 members
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  • Christopher & His Kind on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Matt Smith,  Lindsay Duncan,  Imogen Poots
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The hedonistic Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city, unable to speak a word of German, to stay with his close friend, Auden. To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 849 members
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  • The Mist on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Thomas Jane,  Marcia Gay Harden,  William Sadler
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist-deadly, horrifying things-creatures not of this world. Survival depends ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 33,835 members
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  • W. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  James Cromwell,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 18,023 members
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  • W. - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  James Cromwell,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,453 members
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  • Frost/Nixon - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Matthew MacFadyen,  Michael Sheen,  Toby Jones
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Peter Morgan's stage play, Ron Howard directs this dramatised account of the 1977 TV interviews between scandalised former President Richard Nixon and British talk-show host David Frost. Three years after the Watergate scandal that led to his demise, former president Richard Nixon (Frank ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 8,633 members
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  • Frost/Nixon on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Michael Sheen,  Michael Sheen,  Rebecca Hall
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind) brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 58,539 members
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  • The Mist - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Alexa Davalos,  Thomas Jane,  Laurie Holden
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Horror based on the novella by Stephen King. After a number of people in a small town in Maine are killed by supernatural creatures lurking in a thick fog, a small group of survivors led by artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) take shelter in a local supermarket. The frightened survivors attempt to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,053 members
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  • The Old Curiosity Shop on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Sophie Vavasseur,  Toby Jones,  Anna Madeley
    Director: Brian Percival
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Feature-length ITV drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Sophie Vavasseur stars as Little Nell Trent, who lives with her grandfather (Derek Jacobi), owner of the Old Curiosity Shop. Owing to his secret gambling habit, grandfather regularly borrows money from villainous local businessman and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 35 members
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  • Nightwatching on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Toby Jones,  Jonathan Holmes,  Martin Freeman
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In 1642, the life of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt takes a turn for the worst. He changes from a wealthy respected celebrity to a discredited pauper. His pregnant wife, Saskia, insists that he paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that would later become known as The ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 573 members
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  • Amazing Grace on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ioan Gruffudd,  Rufus Sewell,  Albert Finney
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "Amazing Grace" is based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce (Gruffudd), who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Elected to the House of Commons at the age of 21, and on his way to a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 28,016 members
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  • A Harlot's Progress on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kate Ambler,  Philip Martin Brown,  John Castle
    Director: Justin Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Heralded by many as a work of genius by artist William Hogarth - A Harlots Progress was created by using sketches of prostitutes in the early 18th Century. This film follows William Hogarth (Toby Jones) and looks at the facts of his life, and also focuses on the life of a 22 year old prostitute who ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 211 members
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  • The Painted Veil on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Edward Norton,  Liev Schreiber
    Director: John Curran
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    China, 1925: Bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) jealously ends his spoilt wife Kitty’s (Watts) adulterous affair by making her accompany him to a remote province where a cholera epidemic rages. Amid hostility and disease, the couple rediscover purpose, and each other.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 36,418 members
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  • Elizabeth I (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Jeremy Irons,  Toby Jones
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Helen Mirren stars as Elizabeth I in the two-part Channel 4 drama written by Nigel Williams. The drama portrays 'The Virgin Queen' in her later years, exposing the conflict between her sense of duty and the instincts of her heart, her doomed affair with the Earl of Essex and the struggles of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,792 members
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  • Infamous on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Daniel Craig,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    1959 Manhattan was a party, and none of the glitterati glittered brighter than Truman Capote. Then he saw a story in The New York Times: "Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain," and the party ended for Capote. He plunged into the murder case that inspired his great "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10,205 members
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  • Ladies In Lavender (2004)
    Starring: Toby Jones,  Judi Dench,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Charles Dance
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 30,028 members
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Toby Jones facts

5 most recent films

Red Lights - 3.0 stars
The Girl - 3.0 stars
Titanic - 3.0 stars
Red Lights - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Titanic - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Doctor Who - Series 5 Vol.3 - 4.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Collection 8 - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - Series 5 Vol.3 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Mo - 4.0 stars
Frost/Nixon - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

In Love and War - 2.0 stars
The Old Curiosity Shop - 3.5 stars
Your Highness - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Your Highness - 2.5 stars
Nightwatching - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Zoë Wanamaker - 7 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 6 times - show films
Kimberley Nixon - 5 times - show films
David Suchet - 5 times - show films
Olivia Grant - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tom Hooper - 7 times - show films
Philip Martin - 6 times - show films
Peter Greenaway - 6 times - show films
Frank Darabont - 5 times - show films
Charles Palmer - 5 times - show films