Cast: Max Adrian

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


Pool of London

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

7.1

31 votes

7.1

31 votes

The Devils

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Oliver Reed · Dudley Sutton · Max Adrian

Synopsis This is the disturbing story of a highly influential priest in the French city of Loudon. Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast John Williams · Hilda Plowright · Max Adrian · George Dillon

Synopsis John Bedford is suspected of being the murderer of his wealthy aunt, Miss Ferguson, but the police are unable to break his alibi. Now, exactly two years after the crime, a retired Scotland Yard investigator named William Brent, puts together...

6.8

197 votes

6.8

197 votes

The Deadly Affair

1966 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast James Mason · Simone Signoret · Maximilian Schell · Harriet Andersson

Synopsis Based on a John le Carre novel and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Deadly Affair is a cold war thriller centred in the world of espionage. When foreign Office official Samuel Fennan and his wife (Simone Signoret) are anonymously accused...

6.5

952 votes

6.5

952 votes

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Donald Sutherland · Michael Gough

Synopsis Five men in a carriage on a train journey are joined by the mysterious Dr Schreck who produces a set of tarot cards and offers to tell the fate that will befall each of them. Werewolf: Realtor Jim Dawson is...

6.2

827 votes

6.2

827 votes

The Boy Friend

1971 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Twiggy · Christopher Gable · Max Adrian · Tommy Tune

Synopsis The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors...

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

Song of Summer: Frederick Delius (TV)

1968 · Documentary · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Max Adrian · Maureen Pryor · Christopher Gable

Synopsis Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished...

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The Terrornauts

1967 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Simon Oates · Zena Marshall · Charles Hawtrey · Patricia Hayes

Synopsis Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidknapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a satelite inhabited only by robots, where they are presented with a series of intelligence tests. Since this is...

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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers (TV)

1965 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Leeston-Smith

Cast William Hartnell · Adrienne Hill · Peter Purves · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor, not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp, where he meets Agamemnon and...

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Kipps

1941 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Philip Frost · Michael Redgrave · Diana Wynyard · Diana Calderwood

Synopsis Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really...

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Direction John Newland

Cast Doris Dowling · Max Adrian · John Wengraf · Deirdre Owens

Synopsis An inspector is suspicious about the death of the wife of a Marquis, who, in fact, did kill her with his lover Charlotte as his accomplice. The Marquis becomes increasingly haunted by a stain on the wall which seems to...

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W. Somerset Maugham (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Moira Armstrong · Gilchrist Calder · Guy Verney · James Cellan Jones

Cast Anna Massey · Joss Ackland · Rossano Brazzi · Amanda Murray

Synopsis TV Series (1969-1970). 2 seasons. 26 episodes.

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Penn of Pennsylvania

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Clifford Evans · Deborah Kerr · Dennis Arundell · Aubrey Mallalieu

Synopsis William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony.

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Uncle Vanya

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

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Her Favourite Husband

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Soldati

Cast Jean Kent · Robert Beatty · Gordon Harker · Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis While casing a bank he intends to rob, tough-gangster Leo discovers that Antonio, a meek, mild clerk in the bank is his exact double. Leo kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank. making certain there are plenty of witnesses to testify...

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Famous Gossips (TV Miniseries)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

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.

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