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Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem / The Empty House review by A customer from Sussex

Predictable 3 March 2010
...Not a very exciting episode; I suppose because it was so predictable. Even Eric Porter didn't seem to be able to breathe much life into it. The stunts at the end were effe... Read customer review

The Forsyte Saga review by Firethorn from London

The repeat fees must have been good... 6 June 2005
...he casting is very curious. Kenneth More was much too old for the part. So was Eric Porter but at least he could act. Nyree Dawn Porter in 1960s lip stick just looks com... Read customer review

Anna Karenina review by A customer from Manchester

Proper drama 18 November 2008
...ike soap opera. This was excellently written with superb acting (Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter were fantastic) and writing. It was not afraid to examine the depths even if th... Read customer review

Eric Porter - filmography

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - E01 - Th... (1986)
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Eric Porter
Director: Howard Baker
Certificate:
Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Prefessor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.

100% from 1 member

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - S02 ... (1985)
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, David Burke
Director: Alan Grint, Howard Baker
Certificate:
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.

100% from 1 member

Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem / Th... on DVD (1985)
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, David Burke
Director: Alan Grint, Howard Baker
Certificate:
In 'The Final Problem' Holmes investigates the theft of the Mona Lisa painting. On return to London he is threatened by his nemesis Moriarty.

72% from 712 members

The Thirty Nine Steps on DVD (1978)
Starring: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter
Director: Don Sharp
Certificate:
It is 1914. Europe is on the brink of war. London seems peaceful enough but a dangerous conspiracy is underway. Colonel Scudder of the British Intelligence has unearthed a plot to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister on a visit to London and thus precipitate World War I. Richard Hannay (dashing ..read more »

70% from 949 members

Anna Karenina (3 discs) (1977)
Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson
Director: Basil Coleman
Certificate:
Originally broadcast on BBC One in 1977, Nicola Pagett stars as Anna Karenina in this wonderful adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful and timeless tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s.

66% from 131 members
Currently unavailable

Day Of The Jackal on DVD (1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Eric Porter, Timothy West
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Certificate:
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 9,268 members

The Belstone Fox (1973)
Starring: Eric Porter, Rachel Roberts, Heather Wright
Director: James Hill
Certificate:
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Based on the book 'The Ballad of the Belstone Fox', which was also the source for the Disney classic 'The Fox & The Hound', this live action film sees Tag, an orphaned fox, raised with a litter of fox hounds, form a friendship with a puppy, Merlin. As time goes on their friendship is put to the ..read more »

64% from 327 members
Not available for rental

Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Starring: Eric Porter, Jane Merrow, Angharad Rees
Director: Peter Sasdy
Certificate:
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Jack the Ripper's daughter (Angharhad Rees) carries on the family trade, warped as a child after witnessing her father murder her mother. Eric Porter plays a Freudian doctor who studies the disturbed woman

60% from 191 members
Not available for rental

The Lost Continent on DVD (1968)
Starring: Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh
Director: Michael Carreras
Certificate:
The nightmare begins when Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) attempts to tranport illegal explosives and a motley group of passengers on a rusty tramp steamer that becomes stranded in the vast floating swamp of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. Under cover of night, the terrified travelers encounter ..read more »

54% from 139 members

The Forsyte Saga (7 discs) on DVD (1967)
Starring: Eric Porter, Fay Compton, John Welsh
Director: David Giles, James Cellan Jones
Certificate:
This celebrated BBC adaptation of John Galsworthy's remarkable work, chronicling nearly fifty turbulent years of a wealthy English family was first transmitted on BBC television to great acclaim, and is now captured forever on BBC DVD.

69% from 1,049 member

Charles Dickens Collection (8 discs) on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins
Certificate:
Featuring a box set of the BBC adaptations of popular tales from Charles Dickens. Includes: 'The Pickwick Papers', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Martin Chuzzlewit', 'David Copperfield', 'A Tale Of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations', and 'Our Mutual Friend'.

69% from 2,720 members

Eric Porter facts

5 most recent films

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - E01 - The Empty House - 5.0 stars
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - S02 E06 - The Final Problem - 5.0 stars
Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem / The Empty House - 3.5 stars
The Thirty Nine Steps - 3.5 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem / The Empty House - 3.5 stars
Day Of The Jackal - 3.5 stars
The Thirty Nine Steps - 3.5 stars
Charles Dickens Collection - 3.5 stars
The Forsyte Saga - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Lost Continent - 2.5 stars
Hands of the Ripper - 3.0 stars
The Belstone Fox - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.5 stars
The Forsyte Saga - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kenneth More - 8 times - show films
Kenneth More - 8 times - show films
Joseph O'Conor - 8 times - show films
Margaret Tyzack - 8 times - show films
Fay Compton - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Morahan - 18 times - show films
Jim O'Brien - 14 times - show films
none - 9 times - show films
David Giles - 8 times - show films
James Cellan Jones - 8 times - show films