Cast: Maureen Lipman

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Synopsis The Pianist (2002) follows the harrowing journey of Władysław Szpilman, a talented Jewish pianist in Warsaw, as he struggles to survive the devastation of World War II. As the Nazis occupy Poland, Szpilman's life is upended, and he is forced...

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Synopsis It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Caine · Julie Walters · Michael Williams · Maureen Lipman

Synopsis Bored with teaching undergraduates English literature, Frank Bryant morosely reflects through a whisky glass on his failed marriage and his attempt at becoming a poet. His world is turned upside down by the arrival of Rita, a hairdresser who has...

Direction Paul Morrison

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Nia Roberts · Sue Jones-Davies · William Thomas

Synopsis Set in the Welsh Valleys around 1911, SOLOMON & GAENOR tells the moving and ultimately tragic story of the love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy. Gaenor (Nia Roberts) comes from a Welsh mining family, who are regular...

Direction Sam Leifer

Cast Tom Rosenthal · Joel Fry · Ryan Sampson · Sophie Colquhoun

Synopsis PLEBS follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - a city that happens to be Ancient Rome.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Albert Finney · Billie Whitelaw · Frank Finlay · Janice Rule

Synopsis Ginley (Albert Finney) is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. He dons a trench coat, and begins engaging others in rapid-fire dialogue as...

Direction Robert Young

Cast Bob Hoskins · Gemma Jones · Sadie Frost · Anna Massey

Synopsis An eccentric seaman puts together an equally eccentric crew with the idea of sailing from northern England to the Artic along the path of Captain Scoresby, a 1791 sea captain.

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Jim Dale · Bernard Cribbins · Maureen Lipman · Peter Richardson

Synopsis Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of Turkey, who makes a great deal of money through taxing the...

Direction Bob Brooks

Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Mick Ford · Kim Taylforth · Jonathan Lynn

Synopsis Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

Direction John Reardon · Len Richmond

Cast Maureen Lipman · Simon Williams · Maria Charles · Jeremy Bulloch

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1981). 20 episodes. Jane Lucas, an Agony Aunt with a call-in radio show, has her own set of troubles with her very Jewish mother and her husband Laurence. Then there's the crazy lives of her station co-workers and...

Direction Lesley Manning

Cast William Beck · Stephen Kennedy · Maureen Lipman

Synopsis It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Maureen Lipman · David Ross · Benedict Sandiford · Anna Carteret

Synopsis Following on from the events in El día del esquimal, Pippa Lloyd and Neil Whittle have now started going out together, much to the dismay of Pippa's father. They take their A level exams and leave home to go to...

Direction Val Guest

Cast Bernard Cribbins · Bill Maynard · Joss Ackland · Bernard Lee

Synopsis Det. Const. "Dangerous" Davies is not known for his finesse, but often finds himself on the receiving end of violence in various forms. Only thrown into cases where others fear to tread, or to shake up the natives with his...

Direction Carol Wiseman

Cast Maureen Lipman · Amelia Shankley · Miriam Margolyes · Annette Badland

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1986-). 6 Episodes. Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army captain, and the Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's...

Direction Peter Frazer-Jones · Mark Stuart

Cast Maureen Lipman · Lisa Jacobs · Martin Clunes · Gary Waldhorn

Synopsis Sheila Haddon's husband died 18 months ago, sans life insurance, leaving her with nothing but cherished memories and a hefty mortgage on 'No. 20.' Now Sheila and daughter Monica face the awful prospect of selling their beloved family home. The...

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Jonathan Kent · Maureen Lipman · Christopher Blake · Geoffrey Burridge

Synopsis When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic...

Direction Jack Rosenthal · Les Chatfield · Michael Apted

Cast Paula Wilcox · Richard Beckinsale · Joan Scott · Robin Nedwell

Synopsis TV Series (1970-1971). 2 Seasons. 13 Episodes. The ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.

Direction John Henderson

Cast Anne Reid · Maureen Lipman · Morag Siller · Paul Chahidi

Synopsis Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them.

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Steven Serember · Gary Carp · Maureen Lipman · Margery Mason

Synopsis During the IIWW, two young Jewish boys are evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool trying to avoid the Blitz from the german aerial Luftwaffe over the England cities. Based on Rosenthal's own experiences as a wartime evacuee and directed by (now...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Maureen Lipman · David Ross · Benedict Sandiford · Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.