Cast: Jonathan Cecil

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Peter Ustinov · Jean Stapleton · Constance Cummings · Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis Peter Ustinov stars once more as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective. Unlike many of Ustinov's earlier Poirot vehicles, which were set in the 1930s, the made-for-TV Dead Man's Folly takes place in contemporary England. Jean Stapleton costars...

Direction Lou Antonio

Cast Peter Ustinov · Faye Dunaway · Jonathan Cecil · Bill Nighy

Synopsis An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Peter Ustinov · Tony Curtis · Emma Samms · Jonathan Cecil

Synopsis Peter Ustinov portrays the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for the fifth time in this television movie. Poirot is enjoying a house party with his old friend Arthur Hastings at the residence of a retired American actor, Charles Cartwright, and his...

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Julie Andrews · Jean-Michel Cannone · Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.

Direction Mike Figgis

Cast Stephen Rea · Jonathan Cecil · Nigel Hawthorne · Dudley Sutton

Direction Christine Edzard

Cast Tony Armatrading · Celia Bannerman · Ewen Bremner · Jonathan Cecil

Synopsis This is a modern-dress rendition of Shakespeare's famous "comedy," a semi-serious drama with a story featuring mistaken identities and confused declarations of love. Though it screens far more of the classic play's dialogue than the 1936 version featuring Laurence Olivier,...

Direction Barry Letts

Cast Andrew Burt · Jonathan Cecil · Elisabeth Sladen · Godfrey James

Direction James MacTaggart

Cast Sarah Sutton · Brenda Bruce · Richard Pearson · Judy Parfitt

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast John Cleese · Sarah Badel · Simon Chandler · Anthony Pedley

Synopsis Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate,...

Direction Bob Kellett

Cast Frankie Howerd · Bill Fraser · William Mervyn · Nicholas Bennett

Synopsis Frankie Howerd stars in this comedy as a lowly boot-boy who is a terrible coward. He only goes to war in 1914 after he has been hypnotised to 'save England'. With the German master plan tattooed on his backside (this...

Direction Patrick Garland

Cast Alan Bennett · Alan Badel · Nigel Stock · Patience Collier

Synopsis 6 episodes. Six literary immortals are brought to life by six well-known actors.