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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins
Born 31 Dec 1937, in Port Talbot, Wales

Wise words: "I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."


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  • Hopkins to play Thor's dad - 1 November 2009
    -Sir Anthony Hopkins is to be a comic book superhero after landing the role of Thor's father in Marvel Studio's new blockbuster.- -The Silence of The Lambs star will portray King Odin in the new movie, which will go before cameras early next year (10).- - Chris Hemswort


  • Hopkins compares 'wonderful' Blunt to Foster - 5 September 2009
    -Anthony Hopkins is a huge fan of Emily Blunt - placing her in the same acting league as double-Oscar winner Jodie Foster.- -The veteran actor stars opposite Blunt in fantasy horror The Wolf Man, which co-stars Benicio del Toro and is set to hit the big screen in 2010.-


  • Hopkins to feast as Hannibal again - 16 May 2009
    -Sir Anthony Hopkins is teaming up with director Sir Ridley Scott to bring his most infamous villain Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.- -The actor will reprise his cannibalistic serial killer for the fourth time in a second sequel to the 1991 hit film The Silence o

Anthony Hopkins - what members say


  • The Elephant Man
  • The Elephant Man review by from London, England
    Rated - 5 stars An Unforgettable Experience 12 July 2004
    ...through the eyes of Dr Frederick Treves, a benevolent doctor played superbly by Anthony Hopkins, who is the first person in the film to challenge the social ostracism of the E...  
  • The Remains Of The Day
  • The Remains Of The Day review by A customer from Wales
    Rated - 4 stars A winner from the reliable Merchant and Ivory team 10 June 2004
    ...Beautiful to watch, this story of a repressed love is played perfectly by Anthony Hopkins; and Emma Thompson, whom I normally find a grossly overated lighweight, holds her end...  
  • 84 Charing Cross Road
  • 84 Charing Cross Road review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
    Rated - 5 stars A gentle story, beautifully acted 12 August 2004
    ...ood as the book. I think several actresses could have played Helene Hanff, but Anthony Hopkins was perfect for Frank Doel, as in 'Remains of the Day' his expressions say so m...  

Anthony Hopkins - filmography


  • Fracture - BLU-RAY Version (2007)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  David Strathairn,  Ryan Gosling
    Director: Gregory Hoblit
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
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  • Slipstream on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Camryn Manheim,  Jeff,  Christian Slater
    Director: Anthony Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins took a turn behind the camera for the first time since 1996's AUGUST with this mind-bending fantasy that he also wrote and stars in. Hopkins plays Felix Bonhoeffer a screenwriter with a habit of getting lost in his own head. Felix begins to doubt reality itself, ..read more »
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  • Fracture on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Ryan Gosling,  David Strathairn
    Director: Gregory Hoblit
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 42,871 members
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  • Beowulf - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  John Malkovich
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Using the same CGI technique as his film THE POLAR EXPRESS, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 702 members
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  • All The King's Men on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jude Law,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Zaillian
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 9,215 members
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  • The Human Stain on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Nicole Kidman,  Ed Harris
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11,077 members
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  • Bad Company on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Chris Rock,  Peter Stormare
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock join up in the action-packed buddy movie BAD COMPANY. When CIA undercover operative Kevin Pope is killed during tense negotiations for a nuclear weapon, agent Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) recruits the man's twin brother, Jake Hayes (Rock), to take his place and prevent the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,610 members
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  • Red Dragon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
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  • Red Dragon - BLU-RAY Version (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
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  • Hannibal - BLU-RAY Version (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Julianne Moore,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
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  • Hearts In Atlantis on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  David Morse,  Hope Davis
    Director: Scott Hicks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Part mystery, part nostalgic coming-of-age tale, Scott Hicks's lyrical, leisurely film of Stephen King's story captures the innocence, pain, and confusion of childhood. In one unforgettable summer, Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin), a lonely 11-year-old boy, is befriended by Ted Brautigan (Anthony ..read more »
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  • Hannibal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Julianne Moore,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media ..read more »
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  • Grinch, The - BLU-RAY Version (2000)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Jeff,  Catherine Baranov
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Ron Howard casts comedian Jim Carrey in the title role in this live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss, giving this rendition of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS a delightfully manic spin. Carrey is virtually unrecognizable in his elaborate green makeup, but his ..read more »
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  • The Grinch on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Jeff,  Catherine Baranov
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Ron Howard casts comedian Jim Carrey in the title role in this live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss, giving this rendition of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS a delightfully manic spin. Carrey is virtually unrecognizable in his elaborate green makeup, but his ..read more »
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  • The Edge on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Anthony Hopkins,  Elle Macpherson
    Director: Lee Tamahori
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An aging billionaire (Hopkins) and a fashion photographer (Baldwin) having an affair with the rich man's wife must struggle against the elements--including a man-eating bear--after their plane goes down in the Alaskan wild. An unusually dense and cerebral wilderness thriller, penned by literatus ..read more »
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  • Nixon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Joan Allen,  James Woods
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
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  • Legends Of The Fall on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Anthony Hopkins,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel who disapproves of the war and the army's indecent treatment of Native Americans. Abandoned by his blue-..read more »
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  • Shadowlands on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Debra Winger,  Julian Fellowes
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Set in England in 1952, Shadowlands is the tender and deeply moving true story of the love affair between CS Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). CS Lewis, a highly acclaimed writer (The Narnia Chronicles) lived a quiet and ordered life as a professor of English Literature at ..read more »
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  • In The Wild - Lions With Anthony Hopkins on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Mike Fox
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Acclaimed actor Anthony Hopkins meets with the Masai, the East African tribe whose mystical beliefs hold the lion in high regard, then journeys into the wild to come face to face with the King of the Beasts.
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  • Bram Stoker's Dracula on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Winona Ryder,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This sumptuous, erotic film is a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel. In 1897 London, Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) leaves fiancee Mina (Winona Ryder) and journeys to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula (Gary Oldman). While keeping Jonathan a prisoner in his castle, Dracula travels ..read more »
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  • Howard's End on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Prunella Scales,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    E.M. Forster's 1910 novel is adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory Productions in this masterful Edwardian Age romance directed by James Ivory. The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson in an Academy Award-winning ..read more »
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  • Chaplin on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr,  Dan Aykroyd,  Geraldine Chaplin
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN is a dramatised depiction of the highs and lows in the life of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr. in a highly acclaimed performance), one of the true comic geniuses of the early silver screen. Presented as the memories of an elderly Chaplin, the narrative opens ..read more »
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  • Spotswood on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Russell Crowe,  Ben Mendelsohn
    Director: Mark Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernisation he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such ..read more »
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  • Freejack on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Mick Jagger,  Emilio Estevez,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Geoff Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the Ozone layer and the financial gulf between society's "haves" and "have nots" is so large that the rich must search the past to find healthy young bodies to replace their own. When Furlong, a race car driver, dies and leaves his body intact, he becomes ..read more »
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  • Silence Of The Lambs on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jodie Foster,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 58,991 members
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  • Mussolini And I on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Anthony Hopkins,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Alberto Negrin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bob Hoskins stars as Mussolini in this lavish production which recreates the dramatic events which surrounded the destruction of the powerful Mussolini dynasty that ruled over forty million Italians for more than twenty years.
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  • The Bounty on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Fox
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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  • Arch Of Triumph on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Lesley-Anne Down,  Anthony Hopkins,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    With a glittering cast which includes Anthony Hopkins (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN), ARCH OF TRIUMPH is the tale of a Parisian romance unfolding on the cusp of World War II. Dr. Ravic (Hopkins) is a German citizen who has escaped the clutches of the Nazi's by fleeing ..read more »
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  • The Bunker on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Richard Jordan,  Cliff Gorman
    Director: George Schaefer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This exhaustive TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds the Fuehrer's ego as the ..read more »
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  • The Elephant Man on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  John Hurt,  Anne Bancroft
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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  • Magic on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Ann-Margret,  Burgess Meredith
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A troubled nightclub performer is intimidated by his all-too-human dummy. The almost demonic puppet has an increasingly profound effect on the lives of the individuals with whom it comes into contact.
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  • All Creatures Great And Small on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Simon Ward,  Lisa Harrow
    Director: Claude Whatham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    James Herriot (Ward) sets off for a tiny village in the pastoral Yorkshire hills to begin an apprenticeship with veterinarian Siegfried Farnon (Hopkins). Despite a rocky start, Herriot soon gains acceptance amongst the tight-knit rural community, building a deep friendship with his mentor and a ..read more »
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  • Dylan Thomas - Return Journey on DVD
    Starring: Bob Kingdom
    Director: Anthony Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    An interpretation of poet Dylan Thomas’ lectures in America. Dylan Thomas was one of the twentieth century’s most famous poets. Towards the end of his life Dylan Thomas toured America, performing his works before sell-out audiences across the country. DYLAN THOMAS: RETURN JOURNEY is an ..read more »
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  • Othello on DVD
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Colin Lowrey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Shakespearean drama of jealousy and paranoia, covetousness and intrigue. This is the tragic tale of Othello the Moor and his bride Desdemona, driven to jealousy and death by the malicious plotting of those closest to them. 1978 Jonathan Miller production from the BBC which maintains a close loyalty ..read more »
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Anthony Hopkins - watch online


  • Shadowlands to Watch Now (1993)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Debra Winger,  Edward Hardwicke
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 131 minutes
    Set in England in 1952, Shadowlands is the tender and deeply moving true story of the love affair between CS Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). CS Lewis, a highly acclaimed writer (The Narnia Chronicles) lived a quiet and ordered life as a professor of English Literature at ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 18 members
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Anthony Hopkins facts

5 most recent films

Untitled Woody Allen London Project - 4.0 stars
The Wolfman - 4.5 stars
Fracture - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Slipstream - 2.0 stars
Beowulf - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Silence Of The Lambs - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Elephant Man, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Bridge Too Far, A - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Elephant Man, The - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
The World's Fastest Indian - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Blunt: The Fourth Man - 1.0 stars
Slipstream - 2.0 stars
QB VII - 2.0 stars
Arch Of Triumph - 2.0 stars
Guilty Conscience - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Frankie R. Faison - 8 times - show films
Gary Oldman - 6 times - show films
Brendan Gleeson - 6 times - show films
Robert Powell - 6 times - show films
Jeff - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard Attenborough - 9 times - show films
James Cellan Jones - 5 times - show films
Brian Farnham - 5 times - show films
Jonathan Demme - 4 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 4 times - show films