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Branagh honoured at BPG Awards -
29 March 2009
-Thespian Kenneth Branagh has been honoured at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (BPG) - beating Doctor Who star David Tennant to take the coveted Best Actor prize.-
-The star was handed the trophy for his role in BBC drama Wallander, ahead of Tennant and Brideshead Re
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Branagh and Ifans all at sea in DJ film - not 'arf -
19 February 2008
Oscar-nominated actor Kenneth Branagh and Little Nicky star Rhys Ifans will team up for a new Richard Curtis-penned comedy about two 1960s pirate radio DJs on the high seas. -The Boat That Rocked will also be directed by Curtis, whose previous hits include Four Weddings
Kenneth Branagh - what members say
Kenneth Branagh - filmography
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The Boat That Rocked
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost
Director: Richard Curtis
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Writer-turned-director Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY, NOTTING HILL) directs a cast comprising the cream of British acting talent - which includes Bill Nighy (NOTES ON A SCANDAL, LOVE ACTUALLY), Rhys Ifans (NOTTING HILL, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS), Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) and ..read more »
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69%
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10 Days To War
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Juliet Stevenson, Art Malik
Director: Bruce Goodison, David Belton
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A leading cast including Kenneth Branagh, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Rea, Art Malik and Toby Jones feature in an innovative series of eight dramas to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Each drama focuses on a real event that happened exactly five years ago to the day.
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71%
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Wallander
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, David Warner, Tom Hiddleston
Director: Philip Martin
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Starring Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander, a hard-working cop with a strong sense of integrity. Based in the small town of Ystad, Sweden, these compelling murder mysteries are based on the award-winning and phenomenally popular novels by Henning Mankell.
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from 1,302 member
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Sleuth
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jude Law, Michael Caine
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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This savvy remake promises just as many twists and pitch-perfect performances as the 1972 film. Since the original SLEUTH still shocks, some might question director Kenneth Branagh's desire to remake the classic, but Michael Caine doesn't reprise his role from the first film. Instead, he stars as ..read more »
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from 8,376 members
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Galapagos
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Dr. Carole Baldwin, Mathias Espinosa
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With breathtaking cinematography and state-of-the-art visual effects GALAPAGOS takes you to the islands that changed the world. Beneath the beauty and seclusion of the islands lies a legacy of geological miracles and this documentary attempts to life the lid on them. Witness the volcanic eruption ..read more »
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As You Like It
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Takuya Shimada, Brian Blessed, Richard Clifford
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Japan, the 1880s. Duke Senior (Blessed) is ousted by brother Frederick (Blessed) and flees into the forest. Senior's daughter Rosalind (Dallas Howard) and Frederick's daughter Celia (Garai) set off after him, where Rosalind meets the man she loves (Oyelowo) and befriends him in a male disguise.
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52%
from 1,783 member
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Five Children And It
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, Freddie Highmore
Director: John Stephenson
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What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true... at a price.
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59%
from 16,327 members
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Shackleton
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Lorcan Cranitch, Paul McGann
Director: Charles Sturridge
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One of the most amazing and compelling adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton's 1915 expedition to the previously unexplored, forbidding land of Antarctica has been a subject of great public fascination for decades. With 27 crew members, the intrepid man became trapped in the icey land ..read more »
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from 1,668 member
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Rabbit Proof Fence
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan
Director: Phillip Noyce
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In Western Australia, 1931, the small depot of Jigalong sits on the edge of the Gibson Desert. Running through Jigalong and out into the desert is a rabbit-proof fence that bisects Australia from north to south. The fence was built to keep rabbits on one side and pasture on the other. This remote ..read more »
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70%
from 12,439 members
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Love's Labour's Lost
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy sets the action in the last few days before the start of World War II. In the fictional kingdom of Navarre, King Ferdinand (Alessandro Nivola) and three chums take vow to study rigorously and avoid women for three years. Their vow is ..read more »
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57%
from 1,033 member
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Wild Wild West
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Barry Sonnenfeld is reunited with his MEN IN BLACK star Will Smith in this gadget-soaked romp based (loosely) on the 1960s television show. WILD WILD WEST supplies many impressive visuals (thanks to brilliant production designer Bo Welch) and some hearty laughs. Will Smith is James West, a Civil ..read more »
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from 10,742 members
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Walking With Dinosaurs
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh
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Learn all about the dinosaurs and how they ate, fought, mated, and more. High-tech animatronics and computer graphics are used to bring the world of the dinosaurs to life, in this popular documentary series. Includes six episodes featuring the most up-to-date discoveries, narrated by Kenneth ..read more »
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from 2,359 members
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The Gingerbread Man
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman throws his chips into the film noir ring with this stylish, moody thriller that features a spot-on performance by Kenneth Branagh as Rick Magruder, a successful Savannah, Georgia lawyer. After a party celebrating a major victory, he offers Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz), a shy waitress ..read more »
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Celebrity
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Hank Azaria
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
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from 2,162 members
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and ..read more »
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Much Ado About Nothing
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Keaton
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the Sicilian village of Messina, romance, gaiety, and suspicion abound. The men have returned safely ..read more »
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from 6,689 members
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Peter's Friends
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Ten years after leaving university, Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters, there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost...read more »
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Dead Again
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In Kenneth Branagh's stylish suspense film, Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts to help her regain her memory bring them to Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), a ..read more »
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from 1,059 member
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Look Back In Anger
(1989)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson
Director: Judi Dench
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Adaptation of the John Osborne play, about Jimmy Porter, a selfish, very "angry young man" who feels the world is against him and takes it out on his wife, by seducing her best friend; a woman he originally despised. Starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, this Renaissance Theatre Company ..read more »
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Henry V
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh makes his directorial debut and also plays the title role in HENRY V, an ambitious film that began a resurgence of interest in films of Shakespeare's plays. Henry is a young king seeking a way to make his mark on history. He gets his chance when he learns he can make a legal claim ..read more »
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. ..read more »
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from 330 members
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A Month In the Country
(1987)
Starring: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson
Director: Pat O'Connor
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Two war-weary young veterans, Birkin and Moon, have come to a peaceful Yorkshire town to escape the horrors of war that haunt their dreams. But their work at the village church takes an explosive turn as one ignites long-denied passion within the pastor's young wife which forces the other veteran ..read more »
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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 »
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76%
from 381 members
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High Season
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas
Director: Clare Peploe
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Katharine is a talented photographer living on an idyllic Greek island. Unfortunately, the only thing that's clicking is her camera, until she finds herself surrounded by crazies, spies, smugglers, love-sick tourists, a teenage daughter and an ex-husband.
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from 97 members
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Symphony For The Spire
on DVD
Starring: Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, English Chamber Orchestra
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Richard Armstrong conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in a musical and theatrical tribute staged before Prince Charles in Salisbury Cathedral to benefit the restoration effort of this magnificent British landmark. Includes firework display to Handel's 'La Rejouissance' (from 'Music For The Royal ..read more »
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from 5 members
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Warm Springs
on DVD
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon
Director: Joseph Sargent
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A dramatisation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's remarkable life, WARM SPRINGS stars British actor Kenneth Branagh as FDR. Joining Branagh in a glittering cast are SEX AND THE CITY star Cynthia Nixon as Elanor Roosevelt, Academy Award winner Kathy Bates, and MINORITY REPORT star Tim Blake Nelson. Having ..read more »
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Kenneth Branagh - watch online
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As You Like it
to Watch Now
(2006)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 128 minutes
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden. Directed by Kenneth Branagh AS YOU LIKE IT is set against a ..read more »
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Kenneth Branagh facts
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A 'Must See' film 26 November 2008
...This version of 'Much Ado About Nothing' by Kenneth Branagh is a must see. This is Shakespeare in his own words but delivered in a superbly contemporary and accessible way. We...
Harry Potter Returns! 3 January 2005
