Cast: Tony Britton

Direction Fred Zinnemann

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

Synopsis 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 the men who died there. So they form a group...

Direction David Yates

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

Synopsis 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 'something in the city', but the "something" part is not...

Direction John Schlesinger

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

Synopsis 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 are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the...

Direction Brian Cooke · Johnnie Mortimer · Peter Frazer-Jones

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

Synopsis 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.

Direction Michael McCarthy

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

Synopsis 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 mouse with the Dutch army, knowing that one of their...

Direction Michael Apted

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

Synopsis 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 with her expensive fur coat is found abandoned at the...

Direction Brian G. Hutton

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

Synopsis 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?

Direction John Boulting

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

Synopsis 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 and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into...

Direction Roy Boulting

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

Synopsis 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 any romantic illusions. At first, her candor and cynicism put...

Direction Kevin Connor

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

Synopsis 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 the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in...

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

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

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

Direction Douglas Allen · Dorothea Brooking

Cast Lana Morris · Tony Britton · Julia Lockwood · Andrew Sachs

Direction Alfred Viola · Roy Boulting

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

Synopsis 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 itself he agrees to go, not so much for the...

Direction Lance Comfort

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

Synopsis 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 way to a secluded hotel on the moors where Tredgar...

Direction Pat Jackson

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

Synopsis 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 Customs discover the watch he is charged and, unusually, given...

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

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

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

Direction James Neilson

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

Synopsis 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 King George to order the Royal Army's General Pugh to...

Direction James Neilson

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

Synopsis 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 at local inns and pubs, in order to enslave them...

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Glynis Johns · Rossano Brazzi · Robert Morley · Tony Britton

Direction Frank Dunlop · Anker Sørensen · Edvin Tiemroth

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

Synopsis 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 action, but a traitor is among them.