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Maggie Smith


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  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban review by feelinglistless from Liverpool, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars The new Harry Potter film is brilliant 3 June 2004
    ... - both share some very touching scenes with Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, as does Maggie Smith. But they're greatly helped by the fact that this time they have something to b...   Read customer review
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie review by from Oxford
    Rated - 5.0 stars A classic 3 October 2006
    ...g is beautifully realised, and the performances are without exception stunning. Maggie Smith found the most perfect outlet for her talents in her role as Jean Brodie. It is...   Read customer review
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Rated - 4.0 stars Hogwarts worthy champion !!!!! 10 August 2006
    ...son as madeye Moody was brilliant and he nailed the character. Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith again nail there characters but the same can't be said for others. It was the p...   Read customer review

Maggie Smith - filmography


  • Quartet - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Michael Gambon,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Dustin Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 197 members
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  • Quartet on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Michael Gambon,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Dustin Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 667 members
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  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Maggie Smith,  Judi Dench
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 15,446 members
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  • Gnomeo and Juliet - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  James McAvoy,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Kelly Asbury
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,258 members
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  • Gnomeo and Juliet - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  James McAvoy,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Kelly Asbury
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,135 member
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  • Christmas at Downton on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Brendan Coyle,  Hugh Bonneville,  Jim Carter
    Director: Brian Percival
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Christmas episode of the ITV costume drama. It's 1919, and preparations for a lavish Christmas party at Downton Abbey are under way. The general atmosphere, however, is tense, as Bates (Brendan Coyle)'s arrest threatens to mar proceedings. Meanwhile, Mary (Michelle Dockery) is forced to reconsider ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 362 members
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  • Gnomeo and Juliet on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  James McAvoy,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Kelly Asbury
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 38,913 members
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  • From Time to Time on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Alex Etel,  Pauline Collins,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Julian Fellowes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fantasy drama which sees a young evacuee stumbling into another time after he is sent to stay in the countryside. 13-year-old Tolly (Alex Etel) is sent to stay with his grandmother (Maggie Smith), but after discovering his ancestors' spirits are still very much alive in the heart of the home, he is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,969 member
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  • Capturing Mary on DVD (2007)
    Starring: David Walliams,  Ruth Wilson,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this, the companion piece to Stephen Poliakoff's 'Joe's Palace', Poliakoff takes his characters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past. Dame Maggie Smith, in the title role, is taken back to the time when she was a brilliant writer and critic, remembering parties and functions with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,152 member
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  • Keeping Mum on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Emilia Fox,  Maggie Smith,  Rowan Atkinson
    Director: Niall Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Rowan Atkinson as Walter Goodfellow, a well-meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop, who is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dallience with her brash golf instructor, Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 37,044 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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  • My House in Umbria (2003)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Chris Cooper,  Ronnie Barker
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Italian-set drama starring Maggie Smith as Emily Delahunty, an author of romantic novels living in Umbria. One day, while on a shopping excursion to Milan, she becomes one of a number of victims of a terrorist bomb attack on the train. Emily recovers quickly from the event, but others in her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,833 members
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  • All The King's Men on DVD (1999)
    Starring: David Jason,  William Ash,  Sonya Walger
    Director: Julian Jarrold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This BBC drama portrays the events leading up to and surrounding the disappearance at Gallipoli in 1915 of the Sandringham Company, made up of the King's household staff. Led by estate manager Captain Frank Beck (David Jason), the company left their rural existence to fight in the Great War, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 724 members
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  • Richard III (1995)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,225 members
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  • The Secret Garden on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Kate Maberly,  John Lynch
    Director: Agnieszka Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bringing the Francis Hodgson Burnett classic to the big screen; Mary Lennox is the young orphan sent to stay with her uncle in a forbidding mansion. She not only discovers an invalid cousin she never knew she had but also a secret garden in need of repair.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,078 members
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  • Sister Act on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Whoopi Goldberg,  Harvey Keitel,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Emile Ardolino
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer with aspirations to be a star, but instead becomes the star witness to a mob murder. She goes to the police, is put into the state witness protection scheme and sent to a nunnery run by a starchy Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). Whilst there ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 10,535 members
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  • Hook on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert Chapin,  Dustin Hoffman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Granny Wendy Darling must convince the middle-aged lawyer, Peter Banning, that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, of friendship, and of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 15,067 members
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  • Hook - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: Robert Chapin,  Dustin Hoffman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this development of the Peter Pan story, busy American lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) takes his family to London for a holiday with Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith). But the visit takes an unexpected turn when Peter's kids are abducted by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), forcing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 348 members
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  • A Room With A View on DVD (1985)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 9,031 members
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  • A Room With A View - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. At the turn of the century, Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter) has her passions stirred by young George Emerson (Julian Sands) while on holiday in Italy. On her return to Surrey she tries to put George behind her, but becomes increasingly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 102 members
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  • The Missionary on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Trevor Howard,  David Suchet
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Recalled to London after spending years in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) is given a new and no less difficult mission. He will now be required to bring the Word of the Lord to the ladies of the night. Thus he goes forth amongst them, bringing help and assitance, offering ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 737 members
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  • Clash of the Titans - Blu-ray (1981)
    Starring: Judi Bowker,  Burgess Meredith,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Desmond Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,048 member
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  • Clash of the Titans on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Judi Bowker,  Burgess Meredith,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Desmond Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,501 members
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  • Quartet (1981)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Daniel Chatto,  Isabelle Adjani
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, this Merchant-Ivory drama is set in bohemian 1920s Paris. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya Zelli, a beautiful young novelist who finds herself destitute when her art dealer husband, Stephan (Anthony Higgins) is sent to prison for theft. A rich ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 468 members
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  • Death On The Nile on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jane Birkin,  Angela Lansbury,  Lois Chiles
    Director: John Guillermin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Peter Ustinov stars as detective Hercule Poirot in this star-studded Agatha Christie mystery, set in the 1930s. When a rich heiress is murdered aboard a steamship travelling down the Nile, Poirot discovers that almost all the passengers had a reason to kill her. Will he be able to locate the true ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,275 member
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  • California Suite (1978)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Jane Fonda,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Four couples are guests in the same California hotel on the eve of the Academy Awards, in this episodic comedy based on Neil Simon's play. Starring Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith (who won an Oscar for this role), Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 816 members
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  • Murder By Death on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Estelle Winwood,  Eileen Brennan,  Elsa Lanchester
    Director: Robert Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Spoof whodunnit featuring a host of stars playing variations on well-known fictional detectives. Reclusive millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites a selection of famous sleuths to his mansion and subjects them all to a number of perilous and puzzling scenarios. The guests include Chinese ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,254 members
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  • Travels with My Aunt (1972)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Alec McCowen,  Louis Gossett Jr.
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 18 members
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  • Oh What A Lovely War on DVD (1969)
    Starring: John Mills,  Ralph Richardson,  Ian Holm
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,483 member
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  • Hot Millions (1968)
    Starring: Peter Ustinov,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Eric Till
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Marcus Pendleton is released from prison after serving his time for embezzlement, only to find that the world has changed. Realising that computers are the new ledgers, he masquerades as Caesar Smith, a computer programmer, and finds employment in this corporate world. So begins his biggest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 31 members
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  • The Honey Pot on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Rex Harrison,  Susan Hayward,  Cliff Robertson
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward and Cliff Robertson. This re-working of Ben Jonson's 17th century masterpiece 'Volpone' finds millionaire Cecil Fox (Harrison) pretending to be terminally ill in an attempt to trick three of his former mistresses...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 42 members
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  • Go To Blazes on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Daniel Massey,  Maggie Smith,  Robert Morley
    Director: Michael Truman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Early 1960s British comedy about a gang of bumbling bank robbers. Inept crooks Bernard (Dave King), Harry (Daniel Massey) and Alfie (Norman Rossington) find their latest getaway plans scuppered when they get stuck in traffic due to a passing fire engine. Realising the benefits to be had by using a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 56 members
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  • Nowhere to Go (1958)
    Starring: Harry H. Corbett,  Bernard Lee,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Seth Holt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    First-time director Seth Holt's stylish noir drama stars George Nader as a fugitive on the run from the police. Sentenced to ten years in prison for robbing an old lady of her valuable coin collection, Canadian thief Paul Gregory (Nader) is swiftly sprung from jail by his former partner-in-crime ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 12 members
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  • Charles Dickens Collection (8 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Eric Porter,  John Mills
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eight BBC television adaptations of the classic novels of Charles Dickens. In 'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1994), old Mr Chuzzlewit (Paul Scofield) is on his death bed, and surrounded by his money-hungry family jostling for a position in his will. In 'Oliver Twist' (1985), Ben Rodska plays the orphan who ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,655 members
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  • The George Bernard Shaw Collection (8 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Ian Richardson,  Patrick Stewart
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    BBC adaptations of ten classic plays by the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw, featuring performaces from actors such as Patrick Stewart, Ian Richardson, Maggie Smith, Tom Baker, Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, and many more. Includes: 'Arms and the Man'; 'The Man of Destiny'; 'The Devil's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 129 members
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  • Great Authors - Charles Dickens (3 discs)
    Starring: Trevor Eve,  Anton Lesser,  Michael Elphick
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A three-volume documentary set exploring the life and work of the great Victorian novelist. Illustrating how Dickens drew on his experiences for his fiction, the set also includes the 1999 dramatised BBC production of 'David Copperfield'.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 71 members
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Maggie Smith facts

5 most recent films

Downton Abbey - Series 3 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Quartet - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Downton Abbey - A Journey to the Highlands - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Downton Abbey Special - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 2 - 4.5 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 2 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 3 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Honey Pot - 3.0 stars
Hot Millions - 3.0 stars
Nowhere to Go - 3.5 stars
Travels with My Aunt - 4.0 stars
Lily In Love - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Hugh Bonneville - 13 times - show films
Jim Carter - 12 times - show films
Elizabeth McGovern - 12 times - show films
Jim Carter - 12 times - show films
Daniel Radcliffe - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brian Percival - 19 times - show films
Brian Kelly - 15 times - show films
Chris Columbus - 12 times - show films
none - 10 times - show films
Andy Goddard - 8 times - show films