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Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman was born on March 21st 1958 in London England. His older sister is Laila Morse, who plays Big Mo in BBC's Eastenders.

Gary started his career by acting in many plays, in which he won an award for best newcomer. His first major film role was in Sid and Nancy, where he played icon Sid Vicious.

Gary has been married three times and he has three children. Two sons from his first marriage and a son from his third.

Gary is well known for having a different accent in every film he has ever appeared in.

Quote:
'I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would iMagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.'



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Gary Oldman - news / articles


  • Oldman refuses to travel with Batman script - 8 April 2012
    -Gary Oldman refuses to leave the house with his top-secret Batman script - because he's terrified it will fall into the wrong hands.-The actor, who plays police commissioner James Gordon, has been banned from leaking any plot details ahead of the release of The Dark


  • Oldman panics after losing Batman script - 26 March 2012
    -Gary Oldman flew into a major panic after losing his script for the new Batman movie because director Christopher Nolan has such strict rules to keep the story secret.-The actor reprises his role as police chief James Gordon for Nolan's upcoming third installment in


  • Oldman upset Sid Vicious' hotel home is to close - 24 November 2011
    -Actor Gary Oldman is sad to hear New York's fabled Chelsea Hotel is closing, even though his experiences there were far from pleasant.-The Dark Knight star stayed there briefly while researching the role of Sid Vicious for the 1986 biopic Sid And Nancy - but the coc

Gary Oldman - what members say


  • Leon
  • Leon review by from salop
    Rated - 5.0 stars Your a Mozart man! I lurve Mozart! But for this work he tends to get a little ****ing boring... 27 May 2004
    ...alls for him. Portman gives one of the great child actor performances. Okay, so Gary Oldman hams it a bit as the bad guy, but this movie needs a really unlikeable villian....   Read customer review
  • True Romance
  • True Romance review by from Abydos
    Rated - 5.0 stars I knew there was something rotten in Denmark 23 December 2003
    ...st about everyone from the mob to Alabama's pimp, a white rastafarian played by Gary Oldman. Special mention must be given for Dennis Hopper as Clarence's father, Christo...   Read customer review
  • The Fifth Element
  • The Fifth Element review by A customer from Derry, N Ireland
    Rated - 4.0 stars The fifth element 11 March 2005
    ...great film with a very strong story. Bruce Willis is amazing as the hero, while Gary Oldman is again super as the over the top bad guy. Leeloo, played by Milla Jovovich is...   Read customer review

Gary Oldman - filmography


  • Lawless on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Hardy,  Shia LaBeouf
    Director: John Hillcoat,  John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
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  • Lawless - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Hardy,  Shia LaBeouf
    Director: John Hillcoat,  John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 4,191 members
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  • The Dark Knight Rises on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Anne Hathaway,  Tom Hardy
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent's crimes.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 10,680 members
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  • Kung Fu Panda 2 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Jack Black,  Seth Rogen
    Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Animated adventure sequel featuring the voice talents of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Gary Oldman and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now a kung fu master, giant panda Po (Black) spends his days working alongside Master Shifu (Hoffman) and The Furious Five - ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,754 members
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  • One Night in Turin on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Elliott Francis,  Gary Oldman
    Director: James Erskine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Documentary feature based on the book 'Time Out' by Pete Davies. Released 20 years on from Italia '90, the film follows the England football team's run to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. It covers everything from David Platt's last-minute equaliser against Belgium in the second ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,140 member
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  • One Night in Turin - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Elliott Francis,  Gary Oldman
    Director: James Erskine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Documentary feature based on the book 'Time Out' by Pete Davies. Released 20 years on from Italia '90, the film follows the England football team's run to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. It covers everything from David Platt's last-minute equaliser against Belgium in the second ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,129 member
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  • The Unborn on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Odette Yustman,  Gary Oldman,  Cam Gigandet
    Director: David S. Goyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer/Director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 10,870 members
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  • A Christmas Carol on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Fionnula Flanagan,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robert Zemeckis's animated retelling of the popular children's classic, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, featuring the voice talent of Jim Carrey in the multiple roles of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts which haunt him. Old miser Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,849 members
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  • Rain Fall on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Takumi Bando,  Kyoko Hasegawa,  Misa Shimizu
    Director: Max Mannix
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Action thriller based on the novel by Barry Eisler. Japanese-American hitman John Rain (Kippei Shiina) is the best at what he does - that is, until he falls for the beautiful daughter of the man he has just killed. He must now go directly against his own self-imposed code of conduct in order to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,045 member
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  • The Dark Knight - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Aaron Eckhart,  Michael Caine
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Director Christopher Nolan's sequel to his own 'Batman Begins' sees Gotham's avenging angel squaring-up to a new kid on the block - psychotic prankster, the Joker (Heath Ledger, in the role that won him a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). In the space of a year, Batman (Christian Bale), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 24,554 members
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  • The Dark Knight on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Heath Ledger,  Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 110,975 members
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  • Zodiac on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Robert Downey Jr,  Chloe Sevigny
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 65,268 members
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  • Zodiac - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Chloe Sevigny,  Charles Fleischer,  Brian Cox
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Director David Fincher's cut of his acclaimed thriller based on actual case files surrounding the notorious San Francisco Bay area murders of the 1970s. As the serial killer known as 'Zodiac' taunts the police with letters and cryptic clues, reporters and investigators become increasingly obsessed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,155 members
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  • The Backwoods on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Virginie Ledoyen,  Aitana Sanchez-Gijon,  Paddy Considine
    Director: Koldo Serra
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller set in the 1970s starring Gary Oldman. Lucy (Virginie Ledoyen) and Norman (Paddy Considine) are a young married couple who visit a friend (Oldman) in the Basque region of Spain. Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,234 members
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  • Batman Begins on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Katie Holmes,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The tale finds the disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne, in the wake of his parents' murder, traveling the world to seek the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 139,472 members
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  • Dead Fish - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Terence Stamp,  Billy Zane,  Anouska Bolton Lee
    Director: Charley Stadler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gary Oldman stars in this British gangster comedy. Lynch (Oldman) is a professional hitman who arrives in London on a mission to kill a certain Mr Fish (Terence Stamp). However, what ought to have been a routine job is plunged into chaos when his mobile phone is accidentally swapped with someone's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 352 members
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  • Batman Begins - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Katie Holmes,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The fifth outing in the 'Batman' movie franchise explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 12,009 members
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  • Dead Fish on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Gary Oldman,  Elena Anaya
    Director: Charley Stadler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A hitman named Lynch (Oldman) finds his life changing in unexpected ways after his mobile phone is accidentally switched with one belonging to a young man named Abe (Lee Potts). Include Danny Devine (Carlisle) and a wacky circle of misunderstandings, kidnappings and coincidences drives this story ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 323 members
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  • Tiptoes on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Patricia Arquette,  Peter Dinklage,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Matthew Bright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Off-beat romantic comedy starring Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale and Matthew McConaughey. When Steven (McConaughey) finds out that his fiancée Carol (Beckinsale) is pregnant, he decides he should tell her the truth about his family. Introducing her to his brother Rolfe (Oldman), Carol learns that ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 704 members
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  • Sin on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Brian Cox,  Arie Verveen,  Gregg Henry
    Director: Michael Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Retired homicide detective Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) finds himself back on the job when he discovers that his sister has gone missing. On the trail of a sadistic monster (Gary Oldman), Burns soon realises that he has a lot in common with this monster as he is pulled into the underworld of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 999 members
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  • Interstate 60 on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Paul Brogren,  Gary Oldman,  Chris Cooper
    Director: Bob Gale
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A road trip with a difference. Twenty-something Neal Oliver (James Marsden) is at a crossroads, trying to reach a decision over what to do with his future. His father wants him to take a law degree, but James would sooner follow a career in art, not least because of the girl who appears in his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,565 members
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  • Hannibal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Giancarlo Giannini,  Anthony Hopkins,  Mark Margolis
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991). It is ten years since the events of the previous film and FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), recently in trouble with her superiors over a bungled shoot-out, suddenly receives a letter from the escaped Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins). It does not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 20,817 members
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  • Hannibal - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Giancarlo Giannini,  Anthony Hopkins,  Mark Margolis
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991). It is ten years since the events of the previous film and FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), recently in trouble with her superiors over a bungled shoot-out, suddenly receives a letter from the escaped Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins). It does not ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 984 members
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  • The Contender on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Sam Elliott,  Christian Slater
    Director: Rod Lurie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    White House drama about the behind-the-scenes conflicts involved in the appointment of a new vice-president. When the old vice-president dies, President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) choses Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) as his successor, thereby making her the first woman ever to occupy the post...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,589 member
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  • Lost in Space on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Heather,  Gary Oldman,  William Hurt
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Big-budget, big-screen version of the 60s TV sci-fi series. In 2058, the Earth's natural resources have been depleted to the extent that the human race must begin to colonize other planets for survival. The Robinson family have been earmarked to become the first inhabitants of 'Alpha Prime', but ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 9,265 members
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  • Nil By Mouth on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Charlie Creed-Miles,  Kathy Burke
    Director: Gary Oldman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A working class British family struggles with their demons -- sometimes violently -- in this intensely emotional drama that marked the directorial debut of actor Gary Oldman. Janet (Laila Morse) is a widowed factory worker who shares her home with her aged mother Kath (Edna Dore), her daughter ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 11,314 members
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  • Lost in Space - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  William Hurt,  Matt Le Blanc
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Big-budget, big-screen version of the 60s TV sci-fi series. In 2058, the Earth's natural resources have been depleted to the extent that the human race must begin to colonize other planets for survival. The Robinson family have been earmarked to become the first inhabitants of 'Alpha Prime', but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 580 members
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  • The Fifth Element on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Gary Oldman,  Milla Jovovich
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Having established an ancient temple on the planet Earth, the alien Mondoshawan race return in 1914 with four mystic stones, representing the elements, and remove a casket containing the Fifth Element, known as the Supreme Being. In the 23rd century an alien sphere of pure evil threatens the Earth, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 45,064 members
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  • The Fifth Element - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Gary Oldman,  Milla Jovovich
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Having established an ancient temple on the planet Earth, the alien Mondoshawan race return in 1914 with four mystic stones, representing the elements, and remove a casket containing the Fifth Element, known as the Supreme Being. In the 23rd century an alien sphere of pure evil threatens the Earth, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 1,966 member
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  • Air Force One on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  William H. Macy,  Glenn Close
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    American President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is flying home from Moscow with his family and entourage on the presidential plane Air Force One. After posing as journalists to get on board, a group of terrorists, led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman), seize control of the craft. They threaten to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,977 members
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  • Air Force One - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  William H. Macy,  Glenn Close
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    American President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is flying home from Moscow with his family and entourage on the presidential plane Air Force One. After posing as journalists to get on board, a group of terrorists, led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman), seize control of the craft. They threaten to ..read more »
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  • Basquiat on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Claire Forlani,  Paul Bartel,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Julian Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,310 members
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  • Scarlet Letter on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Edward Hardwicke,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is convicted of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet A until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 965 members
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  • Immortal Beloved on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Isabella Rossellini,  Johanna Ter Steege
    Director: Bernard Rose
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini and Valeria Golino star in Immortal Beloved, a mesmerizing mystery based on the tumultuous real life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Oldman gives a tour de force performance as the passionate, volatile genius who inspired love and hatred in equal measure. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,893 members
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  • Murder In The First on DVD (1994)
    Starring: William H. Macy,  R. Lee Ermey,  Brad Dourif
    Director: Marc Rocco
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Kevin Bacon plays a prisoner who tries unsuccessfully to escape from Alcatraz and as a result is put in a six by nine foot cell with no light or heating. He is left there with no clothes and little food for three years and is subjected to a series of beatings by the prison warden (Gary Oldman). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,146 members
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  • Leon - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Peter Appel,  Jean Reno
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    English language thriller from Luc Besson, the director of 'Nikita'. Gary Oldman plays Norman Stansfield, a psychotic government official whose actions provide the catalyst for murder on the New York streets. When a young girl named Mathilda (Natalie Portman) witnesses her family being gunned down ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 6,097 members
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  • Leon on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Peter Appel,  Jean Reno
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    English language thriller from Luc Besson, the director of 'Nikita'. Gary Oldman plays Norman Stansfield, a psychotic government official whose actions provide the catalyst for murder on the New York streets. When a young girl named Mathilda (Natalie Portman) witnesses her family being gunned down ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 95,447 members
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  • True Romance on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Patricia Arquette,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 24,750 members
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  • Romeo is Bleeding on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Lena Olin,  Anabella Sciorra
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gary Oldman plays veteran New York cop, Jack Grimaldi, working for both the Organized Crime Task Force as a witness-protector and the mob as a witness-seller. Grimaldi cheats on everyone; the law, the mob, his wife (Annabelle Sciorra) and his mistress (Juliette Lewis), thinking he's doing just fine ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,098 member
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  • True Romance - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jack,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Val Kilmer
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This violent and amoral lovers-on-the-run thriller, based on an early script by Quentin Tarantino, took over a year for the British censors to give it a video certificate. Clarence (Christian Slater) is a kung-fu loving guy whose boss buys him a night with a hooker, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). The ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 2,266 members
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  • Bram Stoker's Dracula on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Winona Ryder,  Bill Campbell
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 13,146 members
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  • Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Tim Roth,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Tom Stoppard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Tom Stoppard directs this adaptation of his own play, in which two minor characters from 'Hamlet' amble unknowingly toward their inevitable demise. Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Roth) arrive in Elsinore, summoned by the King to discover the source of Prince Hamlet's melancholy. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,450 member
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  • JFK (1991)
    Starring: Jay O. Sanders,  Sissy Spacek,  Sally Kirkland
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's detailed examination of possible answers to unsolved mysteries surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Kevin Costner plays New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who remained unconvinced by the Warren Commission Report and launched his own investigation. This film was ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 15,120 members
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  • State Of Grace on DVD (1990)
    Starring: John Turturro,  Sean Penn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Phil Joanou
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Irish-American Terry (Sean Penn) returns to his old neighbourhood, after a mysterious absence. He is reunited with his childhood friend Jackie (Gary Oldman), now working in arson and extortion rackets, but a possible alliance with an Italian mob brings trouble for Terry's friends, and Terry himself ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,386 members
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  • The Firm on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Lesley Manville,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Alan Clarke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gary Oldman stars in this controversial BBC drama, playing a middle-class professional who leads a double life as the leader of the Inner City Crew, a gang of notorious football hooligans. Determined to unite British gangs for the inevitable clashes against foreign fans in the forthcoming European ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,329 members
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  • Chattahoochee (1989)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Mick Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The story chronicles the actions and emotions of Gary Oldman's character who is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 13 members
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  • Track 29 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Theresa Russell,  Christopher Lloyd,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Nicolas Roeg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Dennis Potter penned this psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg. Doctor's wife Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) is bored with her surgeon husband Henry (Christopher Lloyd) and their sexless, childless marriage. When Linda meets mysterious young British hitchhiker Martin (Gary Oldman), she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 240 members
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  • Prick Up Your Ears on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Roger Lloyd Pack,  Gary Oldman,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,908 members
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  • Sid and Nancy on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Chloe Webb,  Courtney Love
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The film follows the turbulent relationship between Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), following their love affair from their first encounters on the London Punk scene to Spungen's death at her boyfriend's hands in a seedy New York hotel. Director Alex Cox ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,028 members
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  • Meantime on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Pam Ferris,  Jeff Robert,  Tim Roth
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    East London, the early 1980s. Frank Pollack (Jeff Robert) and his sons Mark and Colin (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) are all unemployed. The situation seems hopeless, and things are made worse when Colin's Auntie Barbara (Marion Bailey) tries to help out by offering him some decorating work, an act ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,320 members
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Gary Oldman facts

5 most recent films

RoboCop - 4.0 stars
Lawless - 3.5 stars
The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Lawless - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Dark Knight Rises - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Leon - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Batman Begins - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Dark Knight - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Leon - 4.0 stars
True Romance - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dramarama - Vol.1 - Thames Television - 2.0 stars
Chattahoochee - 2.5 stars
Immortal Beloved - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
RoboCop - 4.0 stars
Rain Fall - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Gambon - 10 times - show films
Christian Bale - 9 times - show films
Michael Caine - 9 times - show films
Morgan Freeman - 9 times - show films
Colin Firth - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Nolan - 14 times - show films
David Yates - 6 times - show films
Luc Besson - 6 times - show films
Mike Newell - 4 times - show films
Alfonso Cuaron - 4 times - show films