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Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt


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  • Hamlet
  • Hamlet review by feelinglistless from Liverpool, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Thrift, thrift 30 March 2005
    ...ng Claudius, who with his gluttony seems like a man who could do wrong. Equally Judy Parfitt passes the test of being attractive enough for a man to kill for even if her sk...   Read customer review

Judy Parfitt - filmography


  • Call The Midwife on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jenny Agutter,  Ben Caplan,  Jessica Raine
    Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    BBC drama CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who began a career in midwifery in the 1950s. Newly qualified, Jenny is sent to work alongside an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House in London's East End.
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 282 members
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  • Asylum on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Ian McKellen,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: David Mackenzie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in late-1950s England, David Mackenzie's ASYLUM is a Gothic romance filled with erotic obsession, deception, and murder. Natasha Richardson gives a bravura performance as Stella Raphael, an unhappy woman who is forced to move with her son, Charlie (Gus Lewis), to rural Yorkshire when her ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 5,866 members
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  • Funland (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Daniel Mays,  Ian Puleston-Davies,  Judy Parfitt
    Director: Brian Kirk,  Susan Tully,  Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in Blackpool over one long weekend, Funland plunges you into the black heart of the resort town, bringing the saucy seaside postcard screaming into the twenty-first century. Join the characters on a mysterious journey where nothing is quite what it seems...
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,403 member
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  • The Long Firm (2 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Mark Strong,  Derek Jacobi,  Judy Parfitt
    Director: Bille Eltringham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    During the swinging sixties in London, there was only one crime boss in Soho that mattered: the indomitable Harry Starks (Mark Strong). With a reputation for savagery and generosity in equal measure, Starks ruled central London with a coercive fist and his favourite implement of torture: the red-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,002 members
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  • The Aryan Couple on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Judy Parfitt,  Kenny Doughty
    Director: John Daly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Occupied Hungary 1944. Hans and Ingrid Vassman are the perfect Aryan couple. Young, married, expecting their first child, working as valet and maid for a millionaire couple, the Krauzenbergs, in their palace in the Hungarian Countryside. Hitler's 'Final Solution' sweeps through Europe but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 173 members
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  • Girl With A Pearl Earring on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Scarlett Johansson,  Tom Wilkinson
    Director: Peter Webber
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in 17th-century Holland, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING follows the life of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman who must work as a maid to help her family make ends meet. Seeking employment at the home of renowned painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth), Griet finds most of the household, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 44,572 members
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  • Midsomer Murders - Death's Shadow on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Nettles,  Daniel Casey,  Richard Briers
    Director: Jeremy Silberston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This acclaimed television series follows police detecives Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey) as they investigate various murders along the English countyside. In "Death's Shadow" (featuring Richard Briers), Barnaby and Troy look into the death of a wealthy property developer.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 866 members
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  • Wilde (1997)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Jude Law,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Brian Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This unconventional biopic traces the brilliant, witty, and tragic life of Oscar Wilde from his rise to fame as a much-in-demand author and public speaker to his downfall and ultimate imprisonment for homosexuality. Thoughout the melodrama, the amazing performance of comic actor and author Stephen ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,359 members
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  • Dolores Claiborne on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kathy Bates,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  David Strathairn
    Director: Taylor Hackford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now the elderly woman she has nursed for many years has also died-with Dolores found standing over ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,821 members
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  • 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,879 members
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  • The Charmer (2 discs) (1986)
    Starring: Nigel Havers,  Fiona Fullerton,  Bernard Hepton
    Director: Alan Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Suave conman Ralph Gorse (Nigel Havers) longs to permeate the upper crust of 1930s Society, and his stylish good looks and striking sexual magnetism soon help him gain entry into this privileged world. Once inside, Gorse uses his charms to seduce a series of wealthy women, stopping at nothing, not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 155 members
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  • Mr Pye (2 discs) on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Derek Jacobi,  Judy Parfitt,  Richard O'Callaghan
    Director: Michael Darlow
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A great wind of change is blowing over the Isle of Sark, and it goes by the name of Mr. Pye. Mr. Pye is a man on a mission, or as he might describe it, an evangelical adventure. He has come to encourage the residents to put aside their differences and embrace his concept of The Great Pal . This ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 14 members
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  • The Chain (1985)
    Starring: Warren Mitchell,  Nigel Hawthorne,  Denis Lawson
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as sloth, envy, greed, avarice and pride.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 69 members
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  • Pride and Prejudice (1980)
    Starring: Elizabeth Garvie,  David Rintoul,  Sabina Franklyn
    Director: Cyril Coke
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Another BBC production based on a classic novel by Jane Austen about the morals and mores of the class system in Georgian England. The intelligent and spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of 5 daughters -- which, during that era, meant trouble: because women cannot inherit, upon her father's death her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 55 members
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Judy Parfitt facts

5 most recent films

Call The Midwife - 4.5 stars
The Moth Diaries - 2.0 stars
Poirot - S09 E03 - Death on the Nile - 3 stars
Poirot - S09 E02 - Sad Cypress - 3 stars
Poirot - S09 E01 - Five Little Pigs - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

Call The Midwife - 4.5 stars
Pride and Prejudice - 3.5 stars
Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death On The Nile - 3.5 stars
Midsomer Murders - Death's Shadow - 3.5 stars
Funland - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Moth Diaries - 2.0 stars
The Blackheath Poisonings - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Mr Pye - 3.5 stars
Asylum - 2.5 stars
Act Of Will - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Soul - 9 times - show films
Barbara Flynn - 9 times - show films
David Suchet - 9 times - show films
Billie Whitelaw - 3 times - show films
Hugh Grant - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andy Wilson - 9 times - show films
Michael Darlow - 3 times - show films
Alan Gibson - 3 times - show films
Bille Eltringham - 3 times - show films
Susan Tully - 2 times - show films