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Michael Williams - what members say

A Fine Romance - Series 1 review by A customer from Coventry, UK

Sitcom that ages pretty well. 11 February 2006
...this when it was first on years ago, so thought I'd take a look. Judi Dench and Michael Williams are fine actors, and they help to sell some of the slightly cheesy dialogue. V... Read customer review

A Fine Romance - Series 4 review by A customer from Cheshire, England

Fine Romance indeed 1 February 2007
...irst released. The excellent performances from real life couple Judi Dench and Michael Williams are just as delightful to watch now as then. ... Read customer review

Michael Williams - filmography

September Song - Series 3 - Complete (1995)
Starring: Russ Abbott, Michael Williams, Rebecca Callard
Director: David Richards
Certificate:
Premiering with a one-hour episode in 1993, the comedy-drama SEPTEMBER SONG settled into a weekly half-hour berth not long afterward. Russ Abbot and Michael Williams were respectively cast as the recently widowed Ted Fenwick and Ted's best friend, professional comedian Billy Balsam. Electing to ..read more »

20% from 1 member
Not available for rental

September Song - Series 2 - Complete (1994)
Starring: Russ Abbott, Michael Williams, Susan Brown
Director: David Richards
Certificate:
Premiering with a one-hour episode in 1993, the comedy-drama SEPTEMBER SONG settled into a weekly half-hour berth not long afterward. Russ Abbot and Michael Williams were respectively cast as the recently widowed Ted Fenwick and Ted's best friend, professional comedian Billy Balsam. Electing to ..read more »

36% from 3 members
Not available for rental

September Song - Series 1 - Complete (1993)
Starring: Russ Abbott, Michael Williams, Susan Brown
Director: David Richards
Certificate:
Premiering with a one-hour episode in 1993, the comedy-drama SEPTEMBER SONG settled into a weekly half-hour berth not long afterward. Russ Abbot and Michael Williams were respectively cast as the recently widowed Ted Fenwick and Ted's best friend, professional comedian Billy Balsam. Electing to ..read more »

65% from 4 members
Not available for rental

Blunt: The Fourth Man (1985)
Starring: Ian Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Williams
Director: John Glenister
Certificate:
The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.

13% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Educating Rita on DVD (1983)
Starring: Julie Walters, Michael Caine, Malcolm Douglas
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her ..read more »

70% from 9,598 members

Educating Rita - Blu-ray (1983)
Starring: Julie Walters, Michael Caine, Malcolm Douglas
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her ..read more »

65% from 149 members
Currently unavailable

Love In A Cold Climate (1980)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Diana Fairfax
Director: Donald McWhinnie
Certificate:
An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, and starring Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Michael Aldridge, Diana Fairfax and Simon Cadell, Love in a Cold Climate presents the English upper class of the Twenties and Thirties as seen by one of its most gifted chroniclers. The ..read more »

60% from 1 member
Not available for rental

The Comedy Of Errors (1978)
Starring: Brian Coburn, Griffith Jones, Roger Rees
Director: Philip Casson
Certificate:
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.

20% from 2 members
Not available for rental

Marat Sade (1967)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams
Director: Peter Brook
Certificate:
In an Asylum, Marquis de Sade directs the Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theather play.

73% from 16 members
Currently unavailable

Marat/Sade (1966)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams
Director: Peter Brook
Certificate:
In an insane Asylum, Marquis de Sade directs the Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theather play. The actors are the patients.

53% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

A Fine Romance - Series 1
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon
Director: none
Certificate:
Husband and wife team and Royal Shakespeare Company players Dame Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in a much-admird comedy series from the early 1980s. She plays Laura, who is thirty-seven and unmarried. He plays Mike, also single. Laura's sister, Helen, (Susan Penhaligon) is anxious to see ..read more »

60% from 321 members
Not available for rental

A Fine Romance - Series 2
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon
Director: James Cellan Jones
Certificate:
From the vaults of British television comes a comedy gem starring two consummate actors who were also a couple in real life: Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of middle-aged, dating-game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Episodes ..read more »

65% from 157 members
Not available for rental

A Fine Romance - Series 4
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
Director: Simon Cellan Jones, Graham Evans, Don Leaver
Certificate:
Real-life husband and wife team Michael Williams and Dame Judi Dench prove it's never too late to fall in love in this classic British comedy series about the bumpy road to romance for an unlikely couple of middle-aged lovebirds.

66% from 90 members
Not available for rental

A Fine Romance - Series 3
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon
Director: Don Leaver
Certificate:
Husband and wife team and Royal Shakespeare Company players Dame Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this BAFTA award-winning ITV series from the early 1980s. Laura and Mike are still together but everything they plan seems to end in disaster. The problems really begin when Laura gets broody ..read more »

65% from 148 members
Not available for rental

Michael Williams facts

5 most recent films

September Song - Series 3 - Complete - 1.0 stars
September Song - Series 2 - Complete - 2.0 stars
September Song - Series 1 - Complete - 3.5 stars
Blunt: The Fourth Man - 0.5 stars
Educating Rita - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Educating Rita - 3.5 stars
A Fine Romance - Series 4 - 3.5 stars
A Fine Romance - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Educating Rita - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A Fine Romance - Series 3 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Blunt: The Fourth Man - 0.5 stars
The Comedy Of Errors - 1.0 stars
September Song - Series 3 - Complete - 1.0 stars
September Song - Series 2 - Complete - 2.0 stars
Marat/Sade - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Judi Dench - 6 times - show films
Maureen Lipman - 3 times - show films
Malcolm Douglas - 3 times - show films
Susan Penhaligon - 3 times - show films
Russ Abbott - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lewis Gilbert - 3 times - show films
David Richards - 3 times - show films
Don Leaver - 2 times - show films
Peter Brook - 2 times - show films
none - 1 times - show films

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