Direction: Robert Knights
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Knights. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Waking the Dead (TV Series)
2000 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Barbara Machin · Andy Hay · Edward Bennett · David Thacker
Cast Trevor Eve · Sue Johnston · Wil Johnson · Tara Fitzgerald
Plot One of the BBC's most popular dramas, Waking the Dead regularly draws audiences of over 8 million in the UK. It's twice been nominated for an International Emmy and in...
5.6
151 votes
5.6
151 votes
The Dawning
1988 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Rebecca Pidgeon · Anthony Hopkins · Hugh Grant · Jean Simmons
Plot The film opens with Angus Barrie (Anthony Hopkins), a Irish Republican Army member, walking through hills, and coming to rest on a beach, where there is a little hut. Meanwhile,...
5.4
37 votes
5.4
37 votes
Dead of Night (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Annett · Simon Langton · Don Taylor · Rodney Bennett
Cast Peter Barkworth · Anna Cropper · Bernard Brown · Sylvia Kay
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Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Donald McWhinnie · Roger Bamford · Julian Amyes · Robert Tronson
Cast Leo McKern · Jonathan Coy · Julian Curry · Marion Mathie
Plot (1978-1992). 7 seasons. Horace Rumpole is an "Old Bailey Hack," one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Rumpole refused to handle...
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Double Vision (TV)
1992 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Kim Cattrall · Gale Hansen · Macha Méril · Naveen Andrews
Plot The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her dad and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, living in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams...
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Zafarrancho en Cambridge (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Series · 200 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast David Jason · Ian Richardson · Paul Rogers · John Woodnutt
Plot For the first time in five hundred years, the master of Porterhouse fails to name his successor on his deathbed before dying. He succumbs to a Porterhouse Blue - a...
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All for Love (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights · Moira Armstrong · John Irvin · Jack Gold
Cast Maggie Smith · Jean Simmons · Rupert Graves · Joan Plowright
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The History Man (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Movie · 206 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Antony Sher · Geraldine James · Isla Blair · Laura Davenport
Plot TV Mini-Series (1981). 4 episodes.
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Will Shakespeare (TV Miniseries)
1978 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mark Cullingham · Robert Knights · Peter Wood
Cast Tim Curry · Paul Freeman · John Normington · Ron Cook
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The Glittering Prizes (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1976 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Waris Hussein · Robert Knights
Cast Tom Conti · Barbara Kellerman · Mark Wing-Davey · Clive Merrison
Plot TV Mini-Series (1976). 6 episodes. Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.
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And a Nightingale Sang
1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Joan Plowright · Phyllis Logan · Tom Watt · John Woodvine
Plot A touching and richly comic account of one Geordie family's war. While Mam worries about the church being bombed, Grandpa mourns his dead whippet and Dad turns communist, while their...
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Tender Is the Night (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Movie · 360 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Peter Strauss · Mary Steenburgen · John Heard · Sean Young
Plot Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at...
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The Ebony Tower (TV)
1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Knights
Cast Laurence Olivier · Roger Rees · Greta Scacchi · Toyah Willcox
Plot A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and...
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