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

Synopsis 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 head of the household, is a member of Parliament, and...

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

Synopsis 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 and high achievement.

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

Synopsis 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 big favorite in America. The series detailed the wide-ranging adventures...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Direction Peter Moffatt

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

Synopsis 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 their time zones along with his former companions. They all...

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

Synopsis 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, Nyssa and Tegan manage to save the time machine and...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of...

5.2

72 votes

5.2

72 votes

Direction Tony Virgo

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

Synopsis 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 actions toward the family of his host Ranulf are decidedly...

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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

Synopsis 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, with the TARDIS stowed in the hold, he discovers that...

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Direction Chris Clough

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

Synopsis 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 by the corrupt High Council. Even more, the sinister prosecutor...

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Direction John Black

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

Synopsis 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. The Keeper is nearing the end of his reign and...

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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

Synopsis 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 abducted to an savage alien planet by a race of...

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Direction Sarah Hellings

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

Synopsis 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, a Time Lord biochemist who was cast out from Gallifrey...

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Direction Christopher Barry

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

Synopsis 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 with the richest assortment of oddball characters that could only...

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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

Synopsis 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 Doctor is on the island because the TARDIS has detected...

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