Cast: Tony Britton

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Tony Britton. 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

The Way We Live Now (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast David Suchet · Matthew Macfadyen · Shirley Henderson · Cillian Murphy

Plot TV miniseries. 4 episodes. At the center of the story is Augustus Melmotte, a European-born city financier, whose origins are as mysterious as his business dealings. Trollope describes him as...

7.0

76 votes

7.0

76 votes

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

1971 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Finch · Murray Head · Peggy Ashcroft

Plot A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only...

6.4

605 votes

6.4

605 votes

Robin's Nest (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Cooke · Johnnie Mortimer · Peter Frazer-Jones

Cast Richard O'Sullivan · Tessa Wyatt · Tony Britton · David Kelly

Plot TV Series (1977-1981). Now a qualified chef, Robin from "Man About the House" (1973) sets up home with his girlfriend, and a business with his girlfriend's father.

6.2

147 votes

6.2

147 votes

Operation Amsterdam

1959 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael McCarthy

Cast Peter Finch · Eva Bartok · Tony Britton · Alexander Knox

Plot During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and...

6.2

86 votes

6.2

86 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

Night Watch

1973 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Laurence Harvey · Billie Whitelaw · Robert Lang

Plot Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

5.3

137 votes

5.3

137 votes

Suspect

1960 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Tony Britton · Virginia Maskell · Ian Bannen · Kenneth Griffith

Plot A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed...

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

There's a Girl in my Soup

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Peter Sellers · Goldie Hawn · Tony Britton · Nicky Henson

Plot TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses...

5.3

125 votes

5.3

125 votes

The People That Time Forgot

1977 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Connor

Cast Patrick Wayne · Doug McClure · Sarah Douglas · Dana Gillespie

Plot A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in...

4.6

317 votes

4.6

317 votes

Behind the Mask

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Michael Redgrave · Tony Britton · Carl Möhner · Niall MacGinnis

Plot Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.

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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Viola · Roy Boulting

Cast John Hurt · Hayley Mills · Dudley Sutton · Tony Britton

Plot A young london biologist spends most of his time pursuing girls rather than pursuing science. When the opportunity to go to the Antarctic to study a colony of penguins presents...

Not rated

Not rated

The Break

1962 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Tony Britton · William Lucas · Eddie Byrne · Robert Urquhart

Plot A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps from a speeding train in the Dartmoor countryside. In the ensuing fight Jacko kills the guard and makes his...

Not rated

Not rated

The Birthday Present

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Tony Britton · Sylvia Syms · Jack Watling · Walter Fitzgerald

Plot A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife's birthday. This is illegal in 1950's Britain and when...

Not rated

Not rated

The Root of All Evil? (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hodson · Marc Miller · Peter Moffatt · James Ormerod

Cast George Cole · Edward Woodward · John Stride · Susan Travers

Plot TV Series (1968-1969). 2 seasons. 13 episodes. An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.

Not rated

Not rated

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Neilson

Cast Patrick McGoohan · George Cole · Tony Britton · Eric Pohlmann

Plot A poor 18th century English coastal farming community survives the King's ruinous taxes thanks to a smuggling ring created by its masked leader called the Scarecrow. The ring's success leads...

Not rated

Not rated

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1963 · Series · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Neilson

Cast Patrick McGoohan · George Cole · Tony Britton · Michael Hordern

Plot Dr. Syn, a country priest leads a rebel band against the King's naval press gangs. Press gangs (impressment) roam the country side beating young men into submission or unconsciousness, usually...

Not rated

Not rated

Loser Takes All

1956 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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Den sidste vinter

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Denmark

Direction Frank Dunlop · Anker Sørensen · Edvin Tiemroth

Cast Tony Britton · Dieter Eppler · John Wittig · Brigitte Federspiel

Plot During the latter part of WW2, The Danish resistance is taking care of an English agent after getting hurt on his arrival by plane. The agent's goal is a sabotage...

Not rated

Not rated

The Heart of a Man

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Frankie Vaughan · Anne Heywood · Tony Britton · Peter Sinclair

Plot Frankie, an out-of-work sailor, meets Bud, a tramp who claims he is a millionaire. Bud gives him a shilling and promises him that if he can make £100 from it,...

Not rated

Not rated