Cast: David Swift

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


The Storyteller (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Plot TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

War & Peace (TV Miniseries)

1972 · Series · 890 min. · United Kingdom

7.0

39 votes

7.0

39 votes

Les Miserables (TV)

1978 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin

Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

6.7

73 votes

6.7

73 votes

The Black Panther

1977 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian Merrick

Cast Donald Sumpter · Debbie Farrington · Marjorie Yates · Sylvia O'Donnell

Plot The Black Panther an intelligent true-crime drama that charts the infamous killing spree which Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, carried out across England in the mid-70s, culminating in the...

6.6

25 votes

6.6

25 votes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The King of Clubs (TV)

1989 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Renny Rye

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Niamh Cusack

Plot A deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the tyrannical head of a movie studio.

6.2

130 votes

6.2

130 votes

Jack & Sarah

1995 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Sullivan

Cast Richard E. Grant · Samantha Mathis · Judi Dench · Ian McKellen

Plot Jack (Richard E. Grant) and Sarah (Imogen Stubbs) are expecting a baby together, but a complication during the birth leads to the death of Sarah. Jack, grief stricken, goes on...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

The Day of the Triffids (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Series · 160 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hannam

Cast John Duttine · Emma Relph · Maurice Colbourne · David Swift

Plot A terrible catastrophe has struck the population of Earth. Almost everyone on the planet has been rendered blind by the arrival of a bright comet lighting up the darkened skies,...

5.4

127 votes

5.4

127 votes

No Sex Please - We're British

1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cliff Owen

Cast Ronnie Corbett · Beryl Reid · Arthur Lowe · Ian Ogilvy

Plot Porn store owner Pete orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newly-weds David (the...

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Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV)

1984 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Young

Cast Jimmy Jewel · Michael Elphick · David Swift · Vas Blackwood

Plot Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.

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Vanity Fair (TV Miniseries)

1987 · Movie · 560 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence · Michael Owen Morris

Cast Eve Matheson · Rebecca Saire · Simon Dormandy · Jack Klaff

Plot In the time of Napoleon, Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers,...

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Uppdraget

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · Sweden

Direction Mats Arehn

Cast Christopher Plummer · Thomas Hellberg · Carolyn Seymour · Fernando Rey

Plot A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.

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Private Schulz (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Chetwyn

Cast Michael Elphick · Ian Richardson · Cyril Shaps · Billie Whitelaw

Plot TV Series (1981). 6 episodes. The Time - WWII, the place - Germany. The Germans have a plan to destroy the British economy by flooding the country with forged £5...

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Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (TV)

1983 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom

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Going Straight (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Lotterby

Cast Ronnie Parker · Richard Beckinsale · Nicholas Lyndhurst · Patricia Brake

Plot Spin-off from "Porridge". Fletcher leaves Slade Prison and returns home to find his wife has left him and his daughter Ingrid is now engaged to former cell-mate Godber. Meanwhile Fletcher's...

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Freud (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Moira Armstrong

Cast David Suchet · Helen Bourne · David Swift · Alison Key

Plot The life and times of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.

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Drop the Dead Donkey (TV Series)

1990 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Liddy Oldroyd · Andy Hamilton · Guy Jenkin

Cast Neal Pearson · Jeff Rawle · David Swift · Stephen Tompkinson

Plot (1990-1998). 6 seasons. Political satire about a TV news company.

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ferdinand Fairfax

Cast Robert Hardy · Sian Phillips · Nigel Havers · Tim Pigott-Smith

Plot TV Mini-Series. 8 episodes. The story of Winston Churchill's life between 1929, when he lost his cabinet position, and 1939, when he joined Great Britain's War Cabinet - a period...

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We Think the World of You

1988 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Colin Gregg

Cast Alan Bates · Gary Oldman · Max Wall · Liz Smith

Plot An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of...

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Fall of Eagles (TV Miniseries)

1974 · Movie · 600 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Elliot · David Cunliffe · Bill Hays · Rudolph Cartier

Cast Patrick Stewart · John Rhys-Davies · Gemma Jones · Michael Kitchen

Plot A 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the ruling dynasties Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the...

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