Cast: Maureen Lipman

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Maureen Lipman. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Pianist

2002 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

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

Plot The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last...

8.2

149K votes

8.2

149K votes

Thriller (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom

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

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

Plot 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...

7.2

95 votes

7.2

95 votes

Educating Rita

1983 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

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

Plot 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...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Solomon and Gaenor

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Morrison

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

Plot 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...

6.6

71 votes

6.6

71 votes

Plebs (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 23 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Leifer

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

Plot 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...

6.5

114 votes

6.5

114 votes

Gumshoe

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

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

Plot 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...

6.4

190 votes

6.4

190 votes

Captain Jack

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Young

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

Plot 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.

4.8

58 votes

4.8

58 votes

Carry on Columbus

1992 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

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

Plot 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,...

3.8

30 votes

3.8

30 votes

The Knowledge (TV)

1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bob Brooks

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

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

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Agony (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Reardon · Len Richmond

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

Plot 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....

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The Agent

2008 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lesley Manning

Cast William Beck · Stephen Kennedy · Maureen Lipman

Plot 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...

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Cold Enough for Snow (TV)

1997 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

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

Plot 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...

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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV)

1981 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

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

Plot 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...

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A Little Princess (TV Miniseries)

1986 · Series · 163 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Wiseman

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

Plot 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...

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All at Number 20 (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Frazer-Jones · Mark Stuart

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

Plot 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...

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Love's Labour's Lost (TV)

1985 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

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

Plot 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...

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The Lovers (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Rosenthal · Les Chatfield · Michael Apted

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

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

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Ladies of Letters (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Henderson

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

Plot 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...

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The Evacuees (TV)

1975 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Parker

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

Plot 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...

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Interview Day (TV)

1996 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

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

Plot 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...

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Not rated