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  • Orde Wingate
  • Orde Wingate review by SRB from Richmond, Surrey
    Rated - 3 stars Interesting biopic filmed in a studio 17 January 2006
    ..., so the biopic blends archive footage with studio scenes representing Wingate (Barry Foster) in Palestine, India and Burma as well as back home in Britain. After a while I...  

Barry Foster - filmography


  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 726 members
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  • Smiley's People (2 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Mario Adorf,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: 15
    John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 81% from 824 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.Barry Foster stars again as Piet Van Der Valk, the tough Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, investigating murders in the episodes "A Death by the Sea,'' "A Man of No Importance," ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 59% from 99 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 4 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.This collection presents the final four episodes in the first series, featuring Barry Foster as Piet Van Der Valk, the hardened Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, investigating yet ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 59% from 102 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 (1973)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is unavailable for rental.This collection features Van der Valk (Barry Foster), the hardened Commissaris of the Amsterdam police, in three more episodes: "Elected Silence,'' "Thicker than Water," and "The Adventurer."
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 90 members
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec McCowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: 18
    FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 556 members
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  • Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 1 Of 4 (1972)
    Starring: Barry Foster
    Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.This collection presents the first three episodes of the classic 1970s series featuring Barry Foster as Piet Van Der Valk, the Commissaris of the Amsterdam police. This disc features ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 50% from 175 members
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  • Robbery on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Joanna Pettet,  James Booth
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: PG
    Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 61% from 102 members
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  • King And Country on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Tom Courtenay,  Leo McKern
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: PG
    The intensely dramatic story of a young soldier who faces a court-martial for desertion at the battle of Passchendaelle in 1917. Dirk Bogarde stars as the officer tasked with the job of saving him from the firing squad.
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 183 members
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Barry Foster facts

5 most recent films


Maurice - 3.5 stars
Heat And Dust - 3.0 stars
Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Sweeney! - 3.0 stars
Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2 - 3.5 stars
Maurice - 3.5 stars
Ryan's Daughter - 3.5 stars
Frenzy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Orde Wingate - 2.5 stars
Van Der Valk - Series 1-5 - Complete - 3.0 stars
Inspector Clouseau - 2.5 stars
Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 1 Of 4 - 2.5 stars
Heat And Dust - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Denholm Elliott - 3 times - show films
Leo McKern - 2 times - show films
Diane Keen - 2 times - show films
Billie Whitelaw - 2 times - show films
Ian Bannen - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


none - 5 times - show films
David Wickes - 2 times - show films
James Ivory - 2 times - show films
Tom Clegg - 1 times - show films
Peter Yates - 1 times - show films