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...

Max

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...

Max

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

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

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

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