Direction: Mike Vardy

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mike Vardy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Paul Freeman · Isla Blair

Synopsis Francis Urquhart is too experienced a politician not to know that everything must end, even his long career as British prime minister. In order to secure his retirement and establish monument to himself, he takes part in negotiations aimed at...

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Man at the Top

1973 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Nanette Newman · Harry Andrews · William Lucas

Synopsis A man becomes involved with a pharmaceutical concern that has moved a drug to market too quickly, rendering hundreds of African women sterile. When the man approaches his superior, he finds that, perhaps, he is in over his head.

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Minder (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker · Francis Megahy · Terry Green · Ian Toynton

Cast George Cole · Glynn Edwards · Dennis Waterman · Gary Webster

Synopsis Serie about the London criminal underworld. Arthur Daley, a small-time conman, hires former boxer Terry McCann to be his 'minder', so Terry can protect him (Arthur) from other, small-time, crooks. While Terry is trying his hardest to satisfy his employer's...

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Enemy at the Door (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · Jonathan Alwyn · Christopher Hodson · Martyn Friend

Cast Alfred Burke · Bernard Horsfall · Antonia Pemberton · Simon Cadell

Synopsis TV Series (1978-1980). 26 episodes. Drama about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

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Taggart (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Glenn Chandler · Alan Macmillan · Ian Madden · Patrick Harkins

Cast Blythe Duff · Colin McCredie · John Michie · Alex Norton

Synopsis TV Series (1983-Present). The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.

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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

Synopsis (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 most suits and will never prosecute. Each of his trials...

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Callan (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Mitchell · Peter Duguid · Jim Goddard · Mike Vardy

Cast Edward Woodward · Russell Hunter · Lisa Langdon · Anthony Valentine

Synopsis TV Series (1967-1972). 4 seasons. David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This bleak, "Spy who Came in from...

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Special Branch (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dennis Vance · William Brayne · Mike Vardy · Jim Goddard

Cast Derren Nesbitt · George Sewell · Morris Perry · Fulton Mackay

Synopsis (1969–1974). A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.

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Time and the Conways (TV)

1985 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Peter Chelsom · Nicholas Le Prevost · Mel Martin · Keith Drinkel

Synopsis Time and the Conways is in three acts. The first act is set in the Conway house in 1919 on the night of the birthday of one of the daughters, Kay. Act Two moves to the same night in 1937...

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Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines

Synopsis This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had...

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London's Burning (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Les Blair · Steve Finn · John Reardon · Gerry Mill

Cast Glen Murphy · Kim Clifford · Shirley Greenwood · Richard Walsh

Synopsis TV Series (1988-2002). 14 seasons. Based on the 1986 TV Movie of the same name written by Jack Rosenthal, London's Burning is a British drama series about the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, most notably those of...

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