Cast: Alan Badel

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alan Badel. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Plot Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

This Sporting Life

1963 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Richard Harris · Glenda Jackson · Rachel Roberts · Alan Badel

Plot Richard Harris is Frank Machin, an aggressive rugby-playing miner in the north of England who destroys the relationship he wants most by the force of his rebellious will. Anderson's incisive...

7.0

858 votes

7.0

858 votes

Shogun (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Series · 550 min. · United States

Direction Jerry London

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Shimada · Frankie Sakai

Plot TV Series (1980). 10 episodes. John Blackthorne, an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked upon the Japanese coast in the early 17th century is forced to deal with the two...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Three Cases of Murder

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Eady · George More O'Ferrall · Wendy Toye

Cast Orson Welles · Alan Badel · John Gregson · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends...

6.6

223 votes

6.6

223 votes

Arabesque

1966 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Gregory Peck · Sophia Loren · Alan Badel · Kieron Moore

Plot Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics. Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is an expert in ancient...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The Medusa Touch

1978 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Richard Burton · Lino Ventura · Lee Remick · Harry Andrews

Plot The Medusa Touch is the fantastic story of a middle age English man tormented by the terrifying revelation, he is responsible for the the world's disasters. Richard Burton gives an...

6.0

398 votes

6.0

398 votes

Force Ten from Navarone

1978 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Robert Shaw · Harrison Ford · Barbara Bach · Edward Fox

Plot During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Telefon

1977 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Charles Bronson · Lee Remick · Donald Pleasence · Tyne Daly

Plot Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under...

5.8

547 votes

5.8

547 votes

Agatha

1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Timothy Dalton · Dustin Hoffman · Helen Morse

Plot A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car...

5.7

455 votes

5.7

455 votes

Salome

1953 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Rita Hayworth · Stewart Granger · Charles Laughton · Judith Anderson

Plot "Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a slogan which became laughable whenever a radio announcer would...

5.7

686 votes

5.7

686 votes

Children of the Damned

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anton Leader

Cast Ian Hendry · Alan Badel · Barbara Ferris · Alfred Burke

Plot Scientists discovers that there are six children who each have an enormous intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but they each escape their embassy and gather...

5.5

330 votes

5.5

330 votes

Magic Fire

1955 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Carlos Thompson · Rita Gam · Valentina Cortese

Plot The life and career of German composer Richard Wagner.

5.2

21 votes

5.2

21 votes

The Riddle of the Sands

1979 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Maylam

Cast Michael York · Jenny Agutter · Simon MacCorkindale · Alan Badel

Plot In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a...

5.2

27 votes

5.2

27 votes

The Adventurers

1970 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Charles Aznavour · Alan Badel · Candice Bergen · Thommy Berggren

Plot The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his...

5.2

70 votes

5.2

70 votes

Otley

1968 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dick Clement

Cast Tom Courtenay · Romy Schneider · Alan Badel · James Villiers

Plot Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he is wanted by the police for murder....

5.0

21 votes

5.0

21 votes

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King Lear (TV)

1953 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Andrew McCullough

Cast Orson Welles · Natasha Parry · Arnold Moss · Bramwell Fletcher

Plot Based on Shakespeare's play: King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The...

Not rated

Not rated

Will Any Gentleman...?

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast George Cole · Veronica Hurst · Heather Thatcher · Jon Pertwee

Plot About a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London. After a mix-up at a music hall, he finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who...

Not rated

Not rated

BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein

Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman

Plot TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes

Not rated

Not rated

Bill Brand (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Trevor Griffiths · Roland Joffé · Stuart Burge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jack Shepherd · Lynn Farleigh · Rosemary Martin · Allan Surtees

Plot TV Series (1976). 11 episodes. Bill Brand is a new left-wing firebrand (sic) MP who gets involved with the political issues of the day (mid-1970s), while experiencing frustration with the...

Not rated

Not rated