Cast: Alan Howard

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


The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Cox · Peter Hammond · David Carson

Cast Jeremy Brett · Edward Hardwicke · Rosalie Williams · Colin Jeavons

Plot Dr. Watson, finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with...

7.4

496 votes

7.4

496 votes

Little Big Man

1970 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Faye Dunaway · Martin Balsam · Richard Mulligan

Plot Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

1989 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Richard Bohringer · Michael Gambon · Helen Mirren · Alan Howard

Plot One of the most controversial films of all time, the title of this Jacobean revenge-tragedy, set in an upscale French restaurant, says it all. The restaurant is visited nightly by...

7.1

6K votes

7.1

6K votes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Dream (TV)

1989 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Plot A famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

A Perfect Spy (TV Miniseries)

1987 · Series · 374 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Smith

Cast Jane Booker · Ray McAnally · Alan Howard · Sarah Badel

Plot TV Mini-Series (1987). 7 Episodes. This is the story of Magnus Pym, from his childhood to the end of his career in middle age.

5.9

35 votes

5.9

35 votes

Oxford Blues

1984 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Boris

Cast Rob Lowe · Ally Sheedy · Amanda Pays · Julian Sands

Plot A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll...

4.1

506 votes

4.1

506 votes

The Tragedy of Coriolanus (TV)

1984 · Movie · 145 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Alan Howard · Joss Ackland · Irene Worth · Mike Gwilym

Plot Caius Martius, renamed Coriolanus after his victorious attack on the city of Corioli, returns to Rome to become its joint head of state. A warrior and not a politician, Coriolanus...

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Antigone/Rites of Passion

1990 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Amy Greenfield

Cast Bertram Ross · Janet Eilber · Amy Greenfield · Sean McElroy

Plot An innovative dance/film interpretation of the classic Greek drama of the heroine who defied the state to bury her brother. The film examines the conflict between moral and political law.

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Strapless

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

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The Race for the Double Helix (TV)

1987 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Jeff Goldblum · Tim Pigott-Smith · Alan Howard · Juliet Stevenson

Plot a dramatic rendering of intellectual competition for the discovery of the DNA structure in the 1950s. The story of the rivalries of the two teams of scientists attempting to discover...

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Frederick Forsyth Presents (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark · Tom Clegg

Cast Alan Howard · Richard Hope · David Threlfall · Mike Farrell

Plot Frederick Forsyth, the internationally acclaimed author of Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Negotiator, is the creator and presenter of this series of six original and exciting...

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Notorious Woman (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1974 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Waris Hussein

Cast Rosemary Harris · Marina McConnell · Lewis Fiander · Jonathan Newth

Plot 7 episodes. Notorious Woman was a 1974 BBC television serial based on the life of the French author George Sand (1804-1976).

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Work Is a 4-Letter Word

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hall

Cast David Warner · Cilla Black · Zia Mohyeddin · Elizabeth Spriggs

Plot Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms.

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The Secret Rapture

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Howard Davies

Cast Juliet Stevenson · Joanne Whalley · Penelope Wilton · Neal Pearson

Plot Katherine Coleridge (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) is a basically miserable and mentally unstable woman who is married to even-aged Isobel's father, Robert (Peter Whitaker), who is the only one willing to give...

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A Little Piece of Sunshine (TV)

1990 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Cellan Jones

Cast Larry Lamb · Chris Cooper · Philip Michael Thomas · Kitty Aldridge

Plot Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of...

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Death in Holy Orders (TV)

2003 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jonny Campbell

Cast Martin Shaw · Robert Hardy · Alan Howard · Hugh Fraser

Plot New Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgleish is asked to have a second look at the death of Ronald Treeves, a student at St. Anselm's seminary. He was killed when a...

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