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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Loser Takes All
1956 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Glynis Johns · Rossano Brazzi · Robert Morley · Tony Britton
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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...
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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,...
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