Direction: Rodney Bennett

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


Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Tom Baker · Elisabeth Sladen · Ian Marter · John Gregg

Synopsis One of the most famous adventures of the Fourth Doctor. The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to the Nerva Beacon in the far future, where the remnants of humanity have been placed in suspended animation because of deadly...

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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...

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Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Irene Richard · Tracey Childs · Annie Leon · Robert Swann

Synopsis Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.

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110 votes

6.0

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Edwin (TV)

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Alec Guinness · Renée Asherson · Paul Rogers

Synopsis Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.

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Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Alec Guinness · Leo McKern · Ian Richardson · Graham Crowden

Synopsis In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene Quixote is an old spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the village's mayor and his car called Rosinante. On...

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The House of Eliott (TV Series)

1991 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hannam · Graeme Harper · Alister Hallum · Jeremy Silberston

Cast Stella Gonet · Louise Lombard · Aden Gillett · Cathy Murphy

Synopsis (1991-1994). 3 seasons. House of Eliott is a story of passionate romance, unlikely coincidences, extraordinaryaccomplishments, society in evolution, and a marvelous revelation of life.

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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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The Lost Boys (TV Miniseries)

1978 · Series · 270 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Ian Holm · Anna Cropper · William Hootkins · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1978). 3 episodes. The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (TV)

1980 · Movie · 210 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Derek Jacobi · Claire Bloom · Patrick Stewart · Eric Porter

Synopsis Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.

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Doctor Finlay (TV Series)

1993 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Patrick Lau · Aisling Walsh · Rodney Bennett · Sarah Hellings

Cast David Rintoul · Annette Crosbie · Ian Bannen · Gordon Reid

Synopsis (1993-1996). A.J. Cronin's famous characters are lovingly recreated in the popular Scotish period drama.

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North and South (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Rosalie Shanks · Patrick Stewart · Robin Bailey · Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis A young woman is uprooted from her idyllic village in Southern England, has her eyes opened to class warfare in the industrial North, and receives a surprising marriage proposal.

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Madame Bovary (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1975 · Series · 220 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Francesca Annis · Tom Conti · Gabrielle Lloyd · Ray Smith

Synopsis TV-Miniseries (1975). 4 episodes.

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Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Tom Baker · Elisabeth Sladen · Jon Laurimore · Antony Carrick

Synopsis The TARDIS is temporarily captured by the Mandragora Helix, a spiral of energy with a controlling influence, at the centre of which the ship is infiltrated by a sparkling ball of energy. The travellers then move on to the Dukedom...

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Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Tom Baker · Elisabeth Sladen · Ian Marter · Peter Walshe

Synopsis The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on a desolate and apparently deserted Earth to discover that a group of shipwrecked astronauts from a human colony, GalSec, have been lured there by a fake distress call. One of their number, Roth,...

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The Darling Buds of May (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Giles · Robert Tronson · Rodney Bennett · Steve Goldie

Cast David Jason · Pam Ferris · Stephanie Ralph · Philip Franks

Synopsis TV Series (1991-1993). 3 seasons. 20 episodes. The life of the Larkin family, farmers in Kent.

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