James Villiers

Filmography

James Villiers - filmography

House Of Cards Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD (1990)
Starring: Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, Nicholas Selby
Director: Paul Seed
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BBC TV's political drama based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. The rise and fall of Prime Minister Francis Urquhart.

80% from 3,235 members

Fortunes Of War (3 discs) on DVD (1987)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Graves
Director: James Cellan Jones
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The Baltics, 1939, British Professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new bride and becomes enmeshed in the politics of anti-fascism. Guy's social circle soon includes members of the Secret Service who want to involve him in dangerous missions. Their marriage is soon tested by accidental ..read more »

75% from 588 members

Under The Volcano on DVD (1984)
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Director: John Huston
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A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican Day of the Dead ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his ..read more »

60% from 244 members

The Scarlet Pimpernel on DVD (1982)
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
Director: Clive Donner
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As the crowds bay for Aristocratic blood on the streets of Paris, the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel is bravely saving the lives of noblemen from the jaws of death. A version of the classic tale that was made for the CBS TV Network in 1982 and stars a young Ian McKellen.

72% from 453 members

The Other 'Arf - Series 2 - Complete (1981)
Starring: Lorraine Chase, John Standing, Patricia Hodge
Director: Alan Wallis, John Kaye Cooper
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Class distinction has never stopped Cinderella from meeting her Prince, and the universal appeal of rich-man-falling-for-working-class-girl is the theme of this hit comedy series developed by legendary screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Porridge, Auf Weidersehen, Pet). Starring Lorraine ..read more »

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The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
Starring: Laurence Naismith, James Villiers, Diana Dors
Director: Lionel Jeffries
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A mysterious, old solicitor Mr Blunden offers a destitute family the chance to become housekeepers of a derelict country mansion, which is currently in his charge. Once there the children meet the spirits of others who died in a fire a hundred years earlier. They concoct a potion to enable them to ..read more »

70% from 1,174 member
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Blood From The Mummy's Tomb on DVD (1971)
Starring: Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Andrew Keir
Director: Seth Holt
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An explorer's daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a dead Egyptian princess, who takes revenge on those who desecrated her grave.

59% from 432 members

The First Churchills - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD (1969)
Starring: John Neville, Susan Hampshire, James Villiers
Director: David Giles
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Features the first six episodes of the television series which dramatised the life of John Churchill and his wife Sarah. Episodes include: 'The Chaste Nymph', 'Bridals', 'Plot Corner Plot', 'The Lion And The Unicorn', 'Rebellion' and 'The Protestant Wind'.

59% from 213 members

Repulsion on DVD (1965)
Starring: Valerie Taylor, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry
Director: Roman Polanski
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REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (..read more »

65% from 3,423 members

King And Country on DVD (1964)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Director: Joseph Losey
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The intensely dramatic story of a young soldier who faces a court-martial for desertion at the battle of Passchendaelle in 1917. Dirk Bogarde stars as the officer tasked with the job of saving him from the firing squad.

64% from 278 members

Father Came Too! (1963)
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter
Director: Peter Graham Scott
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Newlywed couple the Munroes bite off more than they can chew when they buy their new home. Desperate to escape her meddling father, the couple purchase a rundown cottage, only to have to reluctantly ask for his help...

65% from 222 members
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Eva on DVD (1962)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi
Director: Joseph Losey
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A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

59% from 63 members

Horror Of Frankenstein on DVD
Starring: Valerie Leon, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson
Director: Seth Holt, Terence Fisher, Jimmy Sangster
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'Horror Of Frankenstein' finds an ingenious Baron who finds time to create a monster while also practising his other hobby... philandering.

59% from 267 members

House Of Cards Trilogy - 4.0 stars
Fortunes Of War - 4.0 stars
The Scarlet Pimpernel - 3.5 stars
The Amazing Mr Blunden - 3.5 stars
Repulsion - 3.5 stars

Hugh Burden - 2 times - show films
John Standing - 2 times - show films
Kenneth Cope - 2 times - show films
Andrew Keir - 2 times - show films
Stanley Baxter - 2 times - show films

Paul Seed - 4 times - show films
David Giles - 3 times - show films
Seth Holt - 2 times - show films
Peter Graham Scott - 2 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 2 times - show films