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  • WIN! A Frenchman's Guide To Love DVD, signed by Hugh Bonneville - 8 February 2011
    ate the release of A Frenchman’s Guide To Love, available to rent or own on DVD now, we have a copy of the film signed by Hugh Bonneville to give away.- -Hugh Bonnneville (Downton Abbey, Notting Hill), Eric Cantona (Looking for Eric, Elizabeth), Douglas Henshall

Hugh Bonneville - what members say


  • Iris
  • Iris review by from Swansea, Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Beautiful piece of filmmaking 27 November 2007
    ... Likenesses between the present and the past are almost instantly recognisable (Hugh Bonneville for example does a wonderful performance and is a wonerful likeness as the youn...   Read customer review
  • Miss Austen Regrets
  • Miss Austen Regrets review by Lorenzo57 from Birmingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars Miss Austen Regrets 10 July 2008
    ...Starring: Jack Huston | Pip Torrens | | Imogen Poots | Phyllida Law | Hugh Bonneville | Greta Scacchi | Adrian Edmondson Great performance Olivia Williams in a passionate ...   Read customer review
  • Lost In Austen
  • Lost In Austen review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb................................ 30 September 2008
    ...ne, which includes: Jemima Rooper as Amanda Price, Alex Kingston as Mrs Bennet, Hugh Bonneville as Mr Bennet, Elliot Cowan as Fitzwilliam Darcy, Morven Christie as Jane Bennet...   Read customer review

Hugh Bonneville - filmography


  • Twenty Twelve - Series 2 (2011)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  Karl Theobald,  Olivia Coleman
    Director: John Morton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the creator of PEOPLE LIKE US, the hilarious mockumentary series TWENTY TWELVE follows the personal and professional tribulations of those tasked with organising what is set to become the greatest show on Earth: the 2012 London Olympics. Includes every episode from series 2.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5 members
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  • Christmas at Downton (2011)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  Jim Carter,  Elizabeth McGovern
    Director: Brian Percival
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    DOWNTON ABBEY returns in this Special episode. This period drama set in England leading up to the First World War, DOWNTON ABBEY tells the story of a community and its fiercely jealous servants while some loyal to their family who live, but the mischievous dream and plan for the betterment of love ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 36 members
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  • Third Star on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  Tom Burke,  Benedict Cumberbatch
    Director: Hattie Dalton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 757 members
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  • Knife Edge on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Press,  Hugh Bonneville,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Anthony Hickox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma has given up a successful career on Wall Street to return to England and give her 6 year old son a new life. Her husband has already bought their new dream home: a massive mansion house in the country - a house which had stood empty for 20 years but which ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 947 members
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  • Marple - Series 5 (4 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julia McKenzie,  Lindsay Duncan,  Joanna Lumley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Celebrated actress Julia McKenzie (Cranford; Notes On A Scandal) stars as the world-famous crime writer, Miss Jane Marple in this stunning collection of 4 new murder mysteries. Miss Marple's sweet old lady exterior hides an excellent perception of human nature and a razor sharp intuition for ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 74 members
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  • Lost in Austen - E04 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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  • Miss Austen Regrets on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jack Huston,  Pip Torrens,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Jeremy Lovering
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,062 members
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  • Lost in Austen - E01 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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  • Lost In Austen (2 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Riley,  Alex Kingston,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) is a devoted Jane Austen fan; often immersing herself into a world of dashing gents, elegant corsets and picturesque manor houses. Unsatisfied with her life and relationship in modern day London, Amanda's ordinary existence is changed forever when she discovers ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,678 members
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  • Lost in Austen - E02 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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  • Lost in Austen - E03 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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  • Four Last Songs on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Stanley Tucci,  Rhys Ifans,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Francesca Joseph
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Larry (Stanley Tucci) is a chronically unsatisfied ex-pat residing on a remote island village in the Mediterranean. The village is tiny but famous for having been the home of one of Europe's most celebrated composers. Although Larry hoped to absorb some of the great man's glory, his modest talents ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 133 members
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  • Freezing (2007)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Tom Hollander,  Tom Riley
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television comedy starring Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Richard E. Grant. Elisabeth (McGovern) is an American Oscar-nominated actress who was discovered by Robert Redford. She's acted in numerous successful films with stars like Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Robert de Niro. That was then. Now ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20 members
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  • Scenes Of A Sexual Nature on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Eileen Atkins,  Hugh Bonneville,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Ed Blum
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11,475 members
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  • Five Days (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  David Oyelowo,  Sarah Smart
    Director: Otto Bathurst,  Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes -- leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car -- lost and far from home. Her two small ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,537 members
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  • Asylum on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Ian McKellen,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: David Mackenzie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in late-1950s England, David Mackenzie's ASYLUM is a Gothic romance filled with erotic obsession, deception, and murder. Natasha Richardson gives a bravura performance as Stella Raphael, an unhappy woman who is forced to move with her son, Charlie (Gus Lewis), to rural Yorkshire when her ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 5,866 members
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  • The Underclassman on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Nick Cannon,  Roselyn Sanchez,  Shawn Ashmore
    Director: Marcos Siega
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When a student at an elite private school gets murdered, the rough-edged rookie, Stokes gets assigned as the undercover detective to track down the killer. The resulting culture shock is only one of his difficulties. The ever-resourceful Stokes resorts to using his unique blend of sharkish good ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,740 member
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  • Piccadilly Jim (2004)
    Starring: Cassandra Bell,  Brenda Blethyn,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: John McKay
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Period comedy based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse. Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is a young American journalist living in London in the 1930s, writing a column under the name 'Piccadilly Jim', and whose wild, hard-drinking antics have scandalised his mother (Allison Janney) and father (Tom Wilkinson) ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 625 members
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  • Conspiracy of Silence on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jonathan Forbes,  Hugh Bonneville,  Brenda Fricker
    Director: John Deery
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 113 members
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  • Tipping The Velvet on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Rachael Stirling,  John Bowe
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TIPPING THE VELVET is a slightly raunchy drama from the BBC that more than anything is a passionate love story between two Victorian women. Set in the 1890s, it follows the rise of Kity Butler, a male impersonator in the musical halls and her devoted dresser Nan. When Kitty ends their affair, Nan ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,940 members
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  • Doctor Zhivago (2 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Chris Marshall,  Hans Matheson
    Director: Giacomo Campiotti
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young married man Yury Zhivago falls in love with a Lara. Meanwhile Lara attempts to escape from her lover Komarovsky.This television mini-series, based on Boris Pasternak's romantic novel, set amid the atrocious, bloody events of the Russian Revolution, stars Hans Matheson as Yury Zhivago and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,093 member
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  • Daniel Deronda on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Romola Garai,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The title character of this Masterpiece Theater presentation is the illegitimate son of a wealthy British aristocrat. With a secretive past and an unlimited supply of cash, he turns to gambling where he meets Gwendolyn, a beautiful woman in desperate need of money. From their meeting at a roulette ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 459 members
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  • Blow Dry on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Alan Rickman,  Warren Clarke
    Director: Paddy Breathnach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The British Hairdressing Championship is coming to the small Yorkshire town of Keighley. The Mayor (Warren Clarke) is ecstatic--but initially the townspeople are underwhelmed. The exotic models and their even more exotic hairdressers arrive--among them reigning champion, Ray Robertson (Bill Nighy). ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,635 member
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  • Iris on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Judi Dench,  Hugh Bonneville,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 10,699 members
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  • Madame Bovary on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Frances O'Connor,  Hugh Bonneville,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,152 member
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  • Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    William Thacker (Hugh Grant), is the owner of a bookshop in the heart of Notting Hill in London. One day, by a one-in-a-million chance, the worlds most famous actress, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), comes into his shop. He watches in amazement as she leaves and he thinks he'll never see her again. But ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 46,973 members
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  • Mansfield Park (1999)
    Starring: Embeth Davidtz,  Jonny Lee Miller,  Alessandro Nivola
    Director: Patricia Rozema
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This sterling adaptation of Austen's third published novel, set in early 19th century Portsmouth, England, concerns Fanny Price (O'Connor), an intelligent young woman who is sent to live with her mother's wealthy family. Settling into her new life, Fanny is treated poorly by everyone except her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,573 members
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  • Notting Hill - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant forge memorable chemistry in this charmer about William, an unassuming bookstore owner in London's Notting Hill section and Anna, a Hollywood actress who, against the odds, are able to fall in love. After Anna wanders into William's shop while filming on location in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 253 members
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  • Diary Of A Nobody on DVD
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Susanna White
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Since its publication in the pages of Punch, The Diary of a Nobody has never been out of print. What started out as a witty weekly series commenting on late Victorian manners has become an undisputed classic of comic literature. The 'author of the diary is Mr Charles Pooter (Hugh Bonneville), one ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 58 members
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  • The Robinsons on DVD
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  Richard Johnson,  Anna Massey
    Director: Mark Busell,  Justin Sbresni
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in Wimbledon, South London, THE ROBINSONS is focuses of the dysfunctional family of the title and revolves around Ed; recently divorced at 32 and living in his aunt’s spare room, he’s considered to be the black sheep of the family. But when the family in question counts his miserable older ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 68 members
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Hugh Bonneville facts

5 most recent films

Twenty Twelve - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Christmas at Downton - 3.5 stars
Downton Abbey Special - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Twenty Twelve - Series 1 - 3.5 stars
Doctor Who - Series 6 Part 1 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Doctor Who - Series 6 Part 1 - 4.0 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Downton Abbey - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Lost In Austen - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tsunami: The Aftermath - 3.0 stars
Midsomer Murders - The Fans' Favourites - 3.0 stars
Freezing - 3.5 stars
Christmas at Downton - 3.5 stars
Twenty Twelve - Series 2 - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lindsay Duncan - 15 times - show films
Tom Riley - 10 times - show films
Alex Kingston - 10 times - show films
Jemima Rooper - 9 times - show films
Perdita Weeks - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Dan Zeff - 9 times - show films
James Strong - 6 times - show films
Nick Hurran - 5 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Brian Percival - 4 times - show films