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Cyril Cusack
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Cyril Cusack - filmography
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As You Like It
(1992)
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, Andrew Tiernan, Emma Croft
Director: Christine Edzard
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A modern take on Shakespeare's classic. A woman flees to an industrial wasteland, disguised as a boy to escape the fate threatened of her by her tyrannical uncle and gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
 
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from 14 members
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The Danny Champion Of The World
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Jeremy Irons, Cyril Cusack
Director: Gavin Millar
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Set in the English countryside during the 1950s, this adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic novel tells the story of nine-year-old Danny and his widower father William, a poacher who lives in a caravan on a great estate. The lord of the manor wants to turn the land into a housing development, thus ..read more »
68%
from 1,444 member
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The Tenth Man
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Timothy Watson, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Jack Gold
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Anthony Hopkins stars in this World War II drama as Chavel, a wealthy lawyer in a small French village, who is taken hostage by the Nazis and sentenced to death. Awaiting his execution, he meets another prisoner and convinces him to chage places, promising to pass on a fortune to the man's family ..read more »
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from 470 members
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Little Dorrit
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley
Director: Christine Edzard, Christine
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Two-part TV adaptation of Dickens' novel. The Dorrit family have spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Alec Guinness) managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy (known as Little Dorrit) finds work with the wealthy Mrs Clenham but knows ..read more »
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from 484 members
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1984
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Roger Lloyd Pack, Cyril Cusack, John Hurt
Director: Michael Radford
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In a holocaustic future world, perpetually at war, where failure to conform is the ultimate crime, Winston Smith (John Hurt) rewrites history books and finds himself dreaming of escape from the all-seeing eyes of the Authorities. He embarks on a passionate (and illegal) affair with a young woman (..read more »
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from 6,949 members
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The Comedy Of Errors
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Roger Daltrey, Michael Kitchen, Cyril Cusack
Director: James Cellan Jones
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. The arrival ..read more »
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from 147 members
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Cry Of The Innocent
(1980)
Starring: Joanna Pettet, Nigel Davenport, Rod Taylor
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
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Fast-paced thriller in which a former Green Beret sets out to hunt down the people responsible for the plane crash which killed his wife and family. Steve Donegin (Rod Taylor), a businessman with a military past, is left distraught when news reaches him of his family's death. When Donegin picks up ..read more »
38%
from 46 members
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Les Miserables
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Guard, Celia Johnson, Ian Holm
Director: Glenn Jordan
Certificate:
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Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins star in this made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel. Jean Valjean (Jordan) is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving family. Soon afterwards he escapes and is presumed dead by all except police inspector Javert (Perkins), ..read more »
64%
from 308 members
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Children Of Rage
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Helmut Griem, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Cyril Cusack and Simon Ward star in this political war drama set amidst the bloody conflict in the Middle East in the 1970s. The film follows the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians caught up in the tragic battle. When Palestinian guerrilla Omar (Richard Alfieri) is wounded while disguised as ..read more »
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from 8 members
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The Homecoming
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Paul Rogers, Ian Holm
Director: Peter Hall
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Part of the American Film Theatre Collection, though British in origin and set in London, this Harold Pinter play is directed for the screen by Peter Hall. Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife Ruth (Vivien Merchant) home to meet his estranged family: his pathetic father Max (Paul Rogers), senile ..read more »
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from 283 members
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The Catholics
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard
Director: Jack Gold
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1970's made-for-TV drama in which a papal emissary is sent to Ireland to try and quell the unrest caused by a group of priests who aren't following the Vatican's line. Set at an unspecified point in the future where the Catholic hierarchy has liberalised elements of its doctrine and practice, ..read more »
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from 44 members
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Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Paul Rogers, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm
Director: Peter Hall
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Two films based on the work of playwright Harold Pinter. 'Pinter's Progress' (2009) is a documentary based around a series of interviews with actors, directors and writers who discuss their experiences of working with Pinter. 'The Homecoming' (1973) is a filmed version of the Pinter play. Made as ..read more »
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from 26 members
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Day Of The Jackal
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Eric Porter, Cyril Cusack, Edward Fox
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as The Jackal (Edward ..read more »
72%
from 9,606 members
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All The Way Boys
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Terence Hill, Carlos Muñoz, Bud Spencer
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi
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Comedy adventure from Italian director, Giuseppe Colizzi, about two pilots who abandon their planes in order to collect the insurance money. Things go swimmingly for Salud (Bud Spencer) and Plata (Terence Hill) until they crash one of their planes for real. To their delight, however, they land ..read more »
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from 29 members
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Harold And Maude
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's cult black-comedy. Harold (Bud Cort) is a death-obsessed teenager who hangs around in cemeteries and drives a hearse. When he attends a funeral and meets his polar opposite Maude (Ruth Gordon), a life-loving 79-year-old, a strange love affair ensues. However, the offbeat nature of their ..read more »
74%
from 7,050 members
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Fahrenheit 451
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Anton Diffring, Cyril Cusack, Alex Scott
Director: Francois Truffaut
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In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as firemen to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the ..read more »
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from 3,462 members
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Waltz Of The Toreadors
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Denise Coffey, Peter Sellers, Margaret Leighton
Director: John Guillermin
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General Fitzjohn (Peter Sellers), a lecherous old military man who daily suffers the nagging of his bedridden wife (Margaret Leighton), fondly remembers the time he spent with his young mistress Ghislaine (Dany Robin). After many years, Ghislaine then arrives on his doorstep determined to ..read more »
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from 120 members
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Gideon's Day
(1958)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, James Hayter, Dianne Foster
Director: John Ford
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Classic British crime thriller starring Jack Hawkins as Inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard. Dedicated family man and all-round straight arrow, Gideon is used to being in the front line in the wave of crime and corruption sweeping the nation's capital but even for him, today is a bad day. It ..read more »
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from 10 members
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Gone To Earth
(1950)
Starring: Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Cusack, Jennifer Jones
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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Powell and Pressburger classic starring Jennifer Jones as Hazel Woods, a beautiful animal-loving girl living on the Welsh border at the turn of the century. Though married to the local pastor, Hazel catches the eye of the fox-hunting squire Jack Reddin (David Farrar), leading to a dramatic clash of ..read more »
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from 561 members
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Once A Jolly Swagman
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Pauline Jameson, Bill Owen, Bonar Colleano
Director: Jack Lee
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British drama about a speedway racer, starring Dirk Bogarde. Bill Fox (Bogarde) is a factory worker in 1930s England who quits his job to become a motorbike rider. Success goes to his head, and he leaves his wife (Sandra Dorne) for socialite Pat (Renee Asherson), but when tragedy strikes on the ..read more »
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from 50 members
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Esther Waters
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack
Director: Peter Proud, Ian Dalyrmple
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Classic British drama with Dirk Bogarde in his first starring role. In late-19th Century England, a dashing squire (Bogarde) impregnates one of his servants (Kathleen Ryan). In the face of local disapproval, the maid determines to bring up the child on her own.
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from 21 members
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Odd Man Out
(1946)
Starring: Fay Compton, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton
Director: Carol Reed
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James Mason plays a hitman in this tense, atmospheric thriller from the director of 'The Third Man'. Johnny (James Mason) is the idealistic leader of an illegal organisation whi is on the run after escaping from prison. An attempt to hold up a linen mill goes wrong and Johnny is badly wounded. As ..read more »
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from 819 members
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...e are a host of Irish character actors in supporting parts, including the great Cyril Cusack and Dan O'Herlihy. This is a genuinely great film - complex, engrossing and vis...
