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  • Orde Wingate
  • Orde Wingate review by srb from Richmond, Surrey
    Rated - 3 stars Interesting biopic filmed in a studio 17 January 2006
    ..., so the biopic blends archive footage with studio scenes representing Wingate (Barry Foster) in Palestine, India and Burma as well as back home in Britain. After a while I...  
  • Fall Of Eagles - Complete Series
  • Fall Of Eagles - Complete Series review by from Worthing, UK
    Rated - 4 stars Wonderful drama 15 December 2006
    ...rles Kay portrays the last Tsar with great sensitivity while Van Der Valk actor Barry Foster has great fun as the ostentatious Kaiser. The scripts are littered with little ...  

Barry Foster - filmography


  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,369 members
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  • Smiley's People (2 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Mario Adorf,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 2,892 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 4 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.This collection presents the final four episodes in the first series, featuring Barry Foster as Piet Van Der Valk, the hardened Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, investigating yet ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 101 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is unavailable for rental.This collection features Van der Valk (Barry Foster), the hardened Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, in three more episodes: "Elected Silence,'' "Thicker than Water," and "The Adventurer."
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 91 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.Barry Foster stars again as Piet Van Der Valk, the tough Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, investigating murders in the episodes "A Death by the Sea,'' "A Man of No Importance," ..read more »
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec McCowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,247 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 1 Of 4 (1972)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.This collection presents the first three episodes of the classic 1970s series featuring Barry Foster as Piet Van Der Valk, the Commissaris of the Amsterdam police. This disc features ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 175 members
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  • Robbery on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Joanna Pettet,  James Booth
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
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Barry Foster facts

5 most recent films

Maurice - 3.5 stars
Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Heat And Dust - 3.0 stars
Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2 - 3.5 stars
Sweeney! - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2 - 3.5 stars
Ryan's Daughter - 3.5 stars
Maurice - 3.5 stars
Sweeney! - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Van Der Valk - Series 1-5 - Complete - 2.5 stars
Orde Wingate - 2.5 stars
Inspector Clouseau - 2.5 stars
Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 1 Of 4 - 2.5 stars
Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Denholm Elliott - 3 times - show films
Leo McKern - 3 times - show films
Diane Keen - 2 times - show films
Vivien Merchant - 2 times - show films
Tom Courtenay - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 5 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 2 times - show films
David Wickes - 2 times - show films
James Ivory - 2 times - show films
Tom Clegg - 1 times - show films