Cast: Anthony Ainley

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


Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Elizabeth R (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roderick Graham

Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley

Plot When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions...

7.0

90 votes

7.0

90 votes

Doctor Who (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Newman · Douglas Camfield · David Maloney · Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Patrick Troughton · Jon Pertwee · Tom Baker

Plot TV Series (1963-1989). 26 Seasons. 696 Episodes. The quintessential "mortgage lifter" for many a financially flagging PBS station, the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who was not always a...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (TV)

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Moffatt

Cast Peter Davison · Jon Pertwee · Patrick Troughton · Richard Hurndall

Plot A feature-length twentieth anniversary special in the classic series, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough learn that the previous incarnations of The Doctor are being abducted one by one from...

6.0

67 votes

6.0

67 votes

Doctor Who: Castrovalva (TV)

1982 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fiona Cumming

Cast Peter Davison · Janet Fielding · Matthew Waterhouse · Sarah Sutton

Plot While the Doctor tries to recover from an unstable regeneration, the Master sends the TARDIS hurtling back in time to the Big Bang, where it will be torn apart. Adric,...

5.9

23 votes

5.9

23 votes

Blood on Satan's Claw

1971 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Patrick Wymark · Linda Hayden · Barry Andrews · Michele Dotrice

Plot Horror thriller set in 17th century England about the children of a village slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers.

5.5

330 votes

5.5

330 votes

Assault

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Suzy Kendall · Frank Finlay · Freddie Jones · Lesley-Anne Down

Plot After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are...

5.2

72 votes

5.2

72 votes

5.2

443 votes

Doctor Who: The King's Demons (TV)

1983 · Movie · 49 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Virgo

Cast Peter Davison · Janet Fielding · Mark Strickson · Anthony Ainley

Plot The TARDIS materialises in 13th Century England during a joust held in the presence of King John. The King welcomes the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough as his 'demons', but his...

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Doctor Who: Time-Flight (TV)

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ron Jones

Cast Peter Davison · Sarah Sutton · Janet Fielding · Richard Easton

Plot The Doctor finally manages to deliver Tegan to Heathrow Airport, where he gets drawn into investigating the in-flight disappearance of a Concorde. Following the same flight path in another Concorde,...

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Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe (TV)

1986 · Movie · 54 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Clough

Cast Colin Baker · Michael Jayston · Bonnie Langford · Anthony Ainley

Plot As the Doctor's trial for interfering in galactic affairs nears its conclusion, the Master appears in the courtroom. He reveals that the entire trial is the result of a conspiracy...

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Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken (TV)

1981 · Movie · 24 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Black

Cast Tom Baker · Matthew Waterhouse · Anthony Ainley · Sheila Ruskin

Plot The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue....

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Doctor Who: Survival (TV)

1989 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Wareing

Cast Sylvester McCoy · Sophie Aldred · Anthony Ainley · Lisa Bowerman

Plot The final story of classic Doctor Who. Ace returns to her home town, only to find many of her friends have gone missing. The Doctor discovers that they have been...

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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani (TV)

1985 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sarah Hellings

Cast Colin Baker · Nicola Bryant · Anthony Ainley · Kate O'Mara

Plot The TARDIS arrives in Killingworth in 19th Century England, where the Master is plotting to kill some of the key figures of the industrial revolution. Also present is the Rani,...

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Nicholas Nickleby (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 330 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast Nigel Havers · Peter Bourke · Kate Nicholls · Derek Godfrey

Plot Nigel Havers stars as the young Nicholas Nickleby in the BBC's triumphant adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. Darkly satirical, angry, funny, hugely entertaining - and filled...

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Doctor Who: Planet of Fire (TV)

1984 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fiona Cumming

Cast Peter Davison · Mark Strickson · Peter Wyngarde · Anthony Ainley

Plot On holiday in Lanzarote, a young American girl named Peri narrowly escapes drowning when she is rescued from the sea by Turlough and taken into the TARDIS to recover. The...

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