Cast: Joss Ackland
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joss Ackland. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1984 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Cox · Alan Grint · Paul Annett · John Bruce
Cast Jeremy Brett · David Burke · Rosalie Williams · Eric Porter
Plot Together the intrepid detective and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one...
7.5
813 votes
7.5
813 votes
The Hunt for Red October
1990 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction John McTiernan
Cast Alec Baldwin · Sean Connery · Sam Neill · Scott Glenn
Plot While engaging in an intricate series of military exercises in the North Atlantic, the respected captain and selected crew members of a Soviet nuclear missile submarine announce their plan to...
7.1
57K votes
7.1
57K votes
Citizen X (TV)
1995 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Chris Gerolmo
Cast Stephen Rea · Donald Sutherland · Max von Sydow · Jeffrey DeMunn
Plot Based on a true story and the book "The Killer Department" by Robert Cullen, CITIZEN X is the tale of the Soviet Union's eight year pursuit of a bloodthirsty serial...
7.1
5K votes
7.1
5K votes
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Greenaway
Cast Andrea Ferréol · Brian Deacon · Eric Deacon · Frances Barber
Plot Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large...
6.8
612 votes
6.8
612 votes
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise
Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins
Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...
6.8
49 votes
6.8
49 votes
Saint Jack
1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Peter Bogdanovich
Cast Ben Gazzara · Denholm Elliott · James Villiers · Joss Ackland
Plot An ordinary businessman is driven into the mainstream of Singapore's political corruption when he becomes the operator of the classiest whorehouse in the world. However, the Chinese competition soon decide...
6.6
425 votes
6.6
425 votes
Seven Days to Noon
1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Barry Jones · André Morell · Hugh Cross · Sheila Manahan
Plot An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of...
6.6
80 votes
6.6
80 votes
The Persuaders! (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Basil Dearden · David Greene
Cast Tony Curtis · Roger Moore · Laurence Naismith · Juliet Harmer
Plot English Lord Brett Sinclair and American Danny Wilde are both wealthy playboys, they are teamed together by Judge Fullton to investigate crimes which the police can't solve. These two men...
6.5
228 votes
6.5
228 votes
Firelight
1997 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction William Nicholson
Cast Sophie Marceau · Stephen Dillane · Kevin Anderson · Lia Williams
6.5
915 votes
6.5
915 votes
Operation: Daybreak
1975 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Timothy Bottoms · Martin Shaw · Joss Ackland · Nicola Pagett
Plot In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The terror and oppression that follow cause Allied authorities in London to authorize...
6.3
516 votes
6.3
516 votes
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (TV)
1991 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Norman Stone
Cast Joan Hickson · Jean Simmons · Joss Ackland · Faith Brook
Plot Ruth van Rydock is worried about her sister's health and well-being and asks their mutual friend Jane Marple to visit her for a awhile. Her sister, Carrie-Louise Serrocold, is married...
6.3
152 votes
6.3
152 votes
The Little Prince
1974 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Richard Kiley · Bob Fosse · Steven Warner · Gene Wilder
Plot Stanley Donen directed this lugubrious musical fantasy based on the classic Antoine de Saint-Exupery children's parable, featuring a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- their first...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Swept From the Sea
1997 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Beeban Kidron
Cast Vincent Pérez · Rachel Weisz · Ian McKellen · Kathy Bates
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The Black Windmill
1974 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Michael Caine · Donald Pleasence · Delphine Seyrig · Clive Revill
Plot A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his...
6.1
602 votes
6.1
602 votes
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael York · Raquel Welch · Oliver Reed
Plot Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much...
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Duffell
Cast Peter Cushing · Denholm Elliott · Jon Pertwee · Christopher Lee
Plot A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house: 1) A writer encounters a strangler of his own creation, 2) Two men are obsessed with a...
6.0
408 votes
6.0
408 votes
Flawless
2007 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Radford
Cast Demi Moore · Michael Caine · Lambert Wilson · Joss Ackland
Plot A crime/drama set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire janitor (Caine) convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive (Moore) to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their...
6.0
8K votes
6.0
8K votes
Villain
1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Tuchner
Cast Richard Burton · Ian McShane · Nigel Davenport · Donald Sinden
Plot Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The...
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ennio De Concini
Cast Alec Guinness · Simon Ward · Adolfo Celi · Diane Cilento
6.0
196 votes
6.0
196 votes
Lethal Weapon 2
1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Richard Donner
Cast Mel Gibson · Danny Glover · Joe Pesci · Joss Ackland
Plot Buddy cops Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and his partner Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are assigned to protect a witness, Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), who soon tells them he has done...
6.0
50K votes
6.0
50K votes