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  • Wish You Were Here
  • Wish You Were Here review by from Bristol
    Rated - 5.0 stars Sex at the seaside 5 January 2005
    ...at’s it all about”. She starts to have an affair with a dirty old man played by Tom Bell and teases the hell out of all the local teenage boys. This is at times a ve...   Read customer review
  • Darling
  • Darling review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
    ... actress), Brock Peters (gay, black jazz musician),Pat Pheonix (prostitute) and Tom Bell (failed writer).Director Bryan Forbes avoids stereotypes in this moving charact...   Read customer review
  • Out - The Complete Series
  • Out - The Complete Series review by A customer from boro
    Rated - 4.0 stars GRITTY STUFF 11 January 2006
    ...a kid in the late 70's.Time has been good to this great show,superb acting from Tom Bell,as Frank Ross,and Brian 'haniball'Cox ,as the villian of the piece.TOUGH GRITTY...   Read customer review

Tom Bell - filmography


  • Love Me Still on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Camille Coduri,  Andrew Howard,  Tom Bell
    Director: Danny Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British crime drama. Mickey Ronson (Andrew Howard) has been in prison for the last eight years, serving a sentence for armed robbery, leaving his wife Gemma (Alex Reid) and their daughter Lucy (Callie Ward) to fend for themselves. As Mickey's release draws closer, he decides to surprise his loved ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 79 members
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  • Dead Man's Cards on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Paul Barber,  Robin John Barlow,  Kimberley Barrett
    Director: James Marquand
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ex Boxer Tom (James McMartin) is on the ropes. His promising fight career is over, his marriage is on the rocks and he's broke. When a chance encounter leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a run down nightclub, the jury is out on whether he has taken a step on the road to redemption or ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 483 members
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  • Devil's Gate on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Roger Ashton-Griffiths,  Tom Bell,  Luke Aikman
    Director: Stuart St. Paul
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    British suspense thriller following a young woman who is lured back to her home town having left years before in search of her missing mother. Rachael (Laura Fraser) is tricked into returning home by her ex-boyfriend, Rafe (Callum Blue), who tells her that her father is dying. While there, however, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 36 members
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  • The Last Minute (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kate Ashfield,  Jason Isaacs,  Max Beesley
    Director: Stephen Norrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Follow the rise and fall of Billy Byrne (Max Beesley). Determined to be famous, he lands his first big gig with the help of his slick agent, Walsh (Anthony Higgins). Fame befalls him quickly as he travels the globe and finds himself invited to hip clubs, becoming the darling of the London art scene...read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 233 members
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  • Amy Foster on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Zoe Wanamaker,  Matthew Scurfield,  William Scott-Masson
    Director: Beeban Kidron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Amy Foster (Rachel Weisz) is an outcast, spurned by her own family and accused of being a witch by everyone else in her village. She is also blamed for the storm which caused a shipwreck in which only one man survived. He immediately falls for Amy, but their love for each other causes controversy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 487 members
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  • Feast Of July on DVD (1996)
    Starring: James Purefoy,  Greg Wise,  Tom Bell
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bella Ford is a young woman searching for the lover who rejected her. She is taken in by the Wainwright family, only to have all three of their handsome sons fight for her love. Just as Bella seems on the verge of finding happiness, her original lover returns unexpectedly.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 161 members
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  • Prime Suspect - S03 E01 (1993)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Transferred to a new station with the new job of ‘cleaning up the streets’ of Soho, DCI Jane Tennison and her new team become involved in the seedy underworld of vice involving rent boys and transvestites, pornography and sickening abuse.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 47 members
  • Prime Suspect 3 on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andrew Woodall,  Tom Bell,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is back on duty, transferred from Southampton Row to the Soho Vice Squad. Ordered to clear out prostitutes and rent boys in the area, Tennison is soon embroiled in another murder case when the corpse of a 17-year-old rent boy is found in a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,260 members
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  • Prime Suspect - S03 E04 (1993)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All evidence is pointing to a cover up for something more sinister and Jane's suspicions are mounting that someone in the department is involved. Will Jane capture them before more teenagers are abused?
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 37 members
  • Prime Suspect 1 on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Called in to head a murder enquiry, D.C.I. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is immediately confronted by hostility and aggression from her male colleagues. With her strength of character and skills as a detective continually tested to the limit, she exposes a far-reaching cover-up within the force. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,377 members
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  • Let Him Have It on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Paul Reynolds,  Michael Gough,  Christopher Eccleston
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The true story of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston), hanged, aged 19, in the 1950s after a controversial decision holding him responsible for the murder of a police officer. Despite a history of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not actually pull the trigger, Bentley was ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,580 member
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  • The Krays on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Susan Fleetwood,  Charlotte Cornwell,  Martin Kemp
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The story of the infamous Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie (Gary and Martin Kemp), notorious in Britain for their crimes as controlling gangsters of London's East End in the 1960s. The film begins with their childhood, charting their rise to power through the 1950s, and watching as their unnaturally ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,167 members
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  • Resurrected on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kenny Ireland,  William Hoyland,  Tom Bell
    Director: Paul Greengrass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Greengrass's debut feature is a drama set against the backdrop of the 1982 Falklands conflict. David Thewlis stars as Kevin Deakin, a young soldier failing to cope with the strain of war. Having gone missing presumed dead during the conflict, Kevin is given a hero's memorial service and much ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 46 members
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  • Wish You Were Here on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Pat Heywood,  Jesse Birdsall
    Director: David Leland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For 15-year-old Linda (Emily Lloyd), growing up in a drab post-war seaside town is not much fun. Unable to contain her rebellious spirit, she shocks her peers and elders with her unrepressed sexuality, culminating in a doomed affair with an older man (Tom Bell). This forbidden relationship results ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,646 member
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  • Reilly - Ace Of Spys (3 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Norman Rodway,  Sam Neill,  Tom Bell
    Director: Martin Campbell,  M,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All twelve episodes from the TV espionage series set in the early years of the 20th century. In 'An Affair With a Married Woman' international spy Sidney Reilly (Sam Neill) creates a scandal during a mission in the Caucasus. 'Prelude to War' sees Reilly leak vital information about the Russian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 33 members
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  • Out - The Complete Series (2 discs) (1978)
    Starring: Tom Bell
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Bell stars as bank robber Frank Ross in this BAFTA award-winning six-part thriller. In 'It Must Be the Suit', Frank Ross is out - and back. Who framed him and what do Vic, Ralph, Bernie and Pretty Billy know? In 'Not Just Pennies', Frank is having trouble with an old girlfriend. 'Maybe He'll ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 117 members
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  • Holocaust (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Joseph Bottoms,  James Woods
    Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Award-winning mini-series starring Meryl Streep and James Woods. The series details the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's attempt to destroy the Jewish population of Europe, focusing particularly on the Weiss family's struggle against the Nazis.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 945 members
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  • Royal Flash (1975)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Tom Bell,  Malcolm McDowell
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    1970s adventure comedy adapted for the screen by George MacDonald Fraser from his second novel following cowardly antihero Harry Flashman, here portrayed by Malcolm McDowell. Trying to find his way into the high society of 19th-century Europe, Captain Flashman is persuaded to pose as a Prussian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 113 members
    Due for release on 19th August 2013
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  • Royal Flash - Blu-ray (1975)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Tom Bell,  Malcolm McDowell
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser’s novel, Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life. It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2 members
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  • Quest For Love on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Denholm Elliot,  Joan Collins
    Director: Peter Rogers,  Ralph Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1970s British fantasy drama starring Joan Collins as a woman who becomes the object of a scientist's desire in two different realities. Scientist Colin Trafford (Tom Bell) is caught up in an experiment that goes wrong and transported to an alternative reality in which World War II and the Moon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 21 members
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  • Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 (1970)
    Starring: Colin Welland,  Peter Barkworth,  Tom Bell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eight episodes from the hugely popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1970 and 1973, features scripts by, among others, Fay Weldon and Colin Welland, and includes performances from Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale, Peter ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 8 members
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  • All The Right Noises - Blu-ray (1969)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Olivia Hussey
    Director: Gerry O'Hara
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Bell stars as a discontented young husband who begins an affair with a 15-year-old girl in this drama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel. Bored with his job and marriage to wife Joy (Judy Carne), electrician Len Lewin (Bell) starts up an affair with teenage actress Val ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 54 members
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  • All The Right Noises on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Tom Bell,  Olivia Hussey
    Director: Gerry O'Hara
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Bell stars as a discontented young husband who begins an affair with a 15-year-old girl in this drama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel. Bored with his job and marriage to wife Joy (Judy Carne), electrician Len Lewin (Bell) starts up an affair with teenage actress Val ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 99 members
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  • Darling on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Pat Phoenix,  Tom Bell
    Director: Bryan Forbes,  John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Diana Scott (Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance) is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,385 members
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  • Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Patrick Magee,  Rodney Bewes,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Cliff Owen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    British heist thriller. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen with the intention of stealing a £250 000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin (Stanley Baker) recruits Fenner (Tom Bell) and Swavek (Helmut Schmid) to make ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 217 members
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  • H.M.S. Defiant on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Murray Melvin,  Maurice Denham,  Tom Bell
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the years of the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) is respected by his crew as a fair and just leader of men, but his second-in-command, Lt. Scott-Padget (Dirk Bogarde), is known as a bitter sadist who likes to see the sailors suffer. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 613 members
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  • The L-Shaped Room on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Pat Phoenix,  Tom Bell,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leslie Caron stars as Jane, a young woman abandoned by the father of her unborn child. She contemplates an abortion after taking refuge in a boarding house full of strange misfits. But after meeting and falling for Tom, a struggling writer who lives above her, she begins to settle into her new ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 405 members
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  • Oh Marbella! on DVD
    Starring: Rik Mayall,  Tom Bell,  Mike Reid
    Director: Piers Ashworth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Welcome to Marbella, the original Costa De Sol paradise for the rich and famous - and for those wishing they were. Where the sun shines down on you regardless of whether you`re a couple trying to revive your romance or a hitman doing one last job. Marbella is the place to be. It`s where the crazy ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 56 members
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Tom Bell facts

5 most recent films

Love Me Still - 2.5 stars
Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect - S07 E02 - The Final Act Part 2 - 4.0 stars
Dead Man's Cards - 3.0 stars
Prime Suspect - S07 E01 - The Final Act Part 1 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 3 - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 1 - 4.0 stars
The L-Shaped Room - 4.0 stars
Prospero's Books - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Armchair Theatre Vol.2 - 3 stars
Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 - 2.0 stars
Devil's Gate - 2.0 stars
Quest For Love - 2.5 stars
Resurrected - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Helen Mirren - 27 times - show films
David Thewlis - 14 times - show films
Ciarán Hinds - 13 times - show films
Peter Capaldi - 13 times - show films
Andrew Woodall - 13 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Menaul - 10 times - show films
David Drury - 9 times - show films
Jim Goddard - 8 times - show films
Phillip Martin - 5 times - show films
Martin Campbell - 5 times - show films