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Anthony Newley - what members say

Vice Versa review by A customer from Scotland

Original is best 4 February 2006
...us way the actors 'changed places ' was excellent and the young( at that time ) Anthony Newley and the experienced Roger Livesy were superb casting as the main characters but... Read customer review

The London Collection review by A customer from North of Watford

The Small World Of Sammy Lee 27 March 2010
...This is a big screen version of a BBC play. Anthony Newley plays Sammy Lee the strip club compère whose gambling debts land him in trouble with gangsters. Newley was a quirky... Read customer review

Anthony Newley - filmography

Vice Versa on DVD (1988)
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: Brian Gilbert, Peter Ustinov
Certificate:
When Marshall (Judge Reinhold) and his son, Charlie (THE WONDER YEARS' Fred Savage), touch an ancient skull, they are shocked to discover that their bodies have switched! Now, Marshall, a department store executive, must deal with junior high school bullies, and Charlie can play in toy stops ..read more »

61% from 1,711 member

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie on DVD (1987)
Starring: Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Katie Barberi
Director: Rodney Amateau
Certificate:
Materialising from an upturned garbage bin in a junk shop run by the magical, mysterious Captain Manzini, come seven of the most outrageous (but friendly) characters imaginable... Siding with Manzini's young assistant, Dodger, against the neighbourhood bullies - and helping him win over his dream-..read more »

51% from 463 members

Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1967)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
Rex Harrison, although not at all like the portly man described in Hugh Lofting's charming series of children's stories, is sheer perfection as the kindly animal doctor in Leslie Bricusse's musical fantasy Doctor Dolittle. Sadly, Harrison is the only thing nearing perfection in this overstuffed and ..read more »

68% from 859 members

The Small World of Sammy Lee on DVD (1963)
Starring: Anthony Newley, Robert Stephens
Director: Ken Hughes
Certificate:
The Small World of Sammy Lee is just around any corner in Soho. Peopled by the pimps, the punters, the brasses and the bookies, and scattered with Peepshows, just like the sleazy club where Sammy Lee comperes the strip-tease. Sammy Lee is worried. When you owe money to a bookie like Conner, you're ..read more »

70% from 138 members

The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)
Starring: Alan Tarrant
Director: Anthony Newley
Certificate:
Both firmly of its time and spectacularly ahead of it, The Strange World of Gurney Slade is to television comedy what The Prisoner has become to television drama - brilliantly inventive, startlingly surreal and unlike anything previously seen on television. Anthony Newley stars as an actor who ..read more »

61% from 9 members
Not available for rental

Fire Down Below (1957)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
Director: Robert Parrish
Certificate:
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a ..read more »

52% from 7 members
Currently unavailable

X The Unknown on DVD (1956)
Starring: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern
Director: Leslie Norman
Certificate:
In 'X The Unknown' a creature terrorises the inhabitants of a Scottish village.

60% from 424 members

Cockleshell Heroes on DVD (1954)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Jose Ferrer, Dora Bryan
Director: Jose Ferrer
Certificate:
Inspired by a true story, the film follows a group of ten 'canoe-commandos' who are taken, by sub-marine, close to the French coast. They must make a highly dangerous journey through 70 miles of enemy waters to destroy giant German battleships.

68% from 1,240 member

Those People Next Door on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes
Director: John Harlow
Certificate:
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, ..read more »

61% from 167 members

Oliver Twist on DVD (1948)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by ..read more »

70% from 3,607 members

Vice Versa (1948)
Starring: Roger Livesey, James Robertson Justice, Anthony Newley
Director: Peter Ustinov
Certificate:
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When businessman Paul Bultitude and his son Dick compare their numerous displeasures of life, they have no idea that their moaning will bring about such radical consequences. Soon they find each other living the other's life...

56% from 80 members
Not available for rental

The London Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, Renee Asherson
Director: Basil Dearden, Ken Hughes
Certificate:
Collection seminal films set in one of the world's greatest and most awe-inspiring cities: London. Includes: POOL OF LONDON, THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE, THE YELLOW BALLOON, THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS/LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE, and SPARROWS CAN'T SING.

56% from 23 members

Anthony Newley facts

5 most recent films

Vice Versa - 3.0 stars
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie - 2.5 stars
Doctor Dolittle - 3.5 stars
The Small World of Sammy Lee - 3.5 stars
The Strange World of Gurney Slade - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Small World of Sammy Lee - 3.5 stars
Oliver Twist - 3.5 stars
Doctor Dolittle - 3.5 stars
Cockleshell Heroes - 3.5 stars
Those People Next Door - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fire Down Below - 2.5 stars
The London Collection - 3.0 stars
The Strange World of Gurney Slade - 3.0 stars
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie - 2.5 stars
Vice Versa - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kay Walsh - 3 times - show films
Mary Clare - 3 times - show films
John Howard Davies - 3 times - show films
Henry Stephenson - 3 times - show films
Francis Sullivan - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Lean - 3 times - show films
Peter Ustinov - 3 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 2 times - show films
Richard Fleischer - 1 times - show films
Robert Parrish - 1 times - show films