Screenplay: Hugh Leonard
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hugh Leonard. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 22
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Antony Kearey · Viktors Ritelis · Max Varnel · Bill Bain
Cast Peter Cushing · Douglas Wilmer · Nigel Stock · Peter Madden
Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 2 seasons. The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never...
6.7
170 votes
6.7
170 votes
Widows' Peak
1994 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Irvin
Cast Mia Farrow · Joan Plowright · Natasha Richardson · Adrian Dunbar
Plot A quaint Irish town in the 20s is set buzzing when a sexy, secretive stranger arrives, seducing the men and manipulating the women in this comic murder-mystery.
6.2
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6.2
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Father Brown (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Tronson · Peter Jefferies · Ian Fordyce
Cast Kenneth More · Dennis Burgess · Graham Crowden · Ronald Pickup
Plot TV Series (1974). 1 Season. 13 episodes. TV Adaptation of Father Brown (Kenneth Moore), fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.
5.8
65 votes
5.8
65 votes
Wuthering Heights (TV)
1978 · Movie · 300 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond
Cast Ken Hutchison · Brian Wilde · Pat Heywood · John Duttine
Plot An eternally romantic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine.
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Da
1988 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Matt Clark
Cast Barnard Hughes · Martin Sheen · William Hickey · Karl Hayden
Plot A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and...
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The Irish R.M. (TV Series)
1983 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker · Robert Chetwyn · John Howard · Peter Sykes
Cast Peter Bowles · Bryan Murray · Beryl Reid · Niall Toibin
Plot TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. A drama about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-20th-century West Ireland. When fine gentleman Major Sinclair Yeates...
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The Hidden Truth (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Frankau · Lionel Harris · Peter Moffatt · Michael Currer-Briggs
Cast Alexander Knox · James Maxwell · Zia Mohyeddin · Ruth Meyers
Plot 13 Episodes. Medical crime drama in which Professor Lazard and his team, try to seek justice for their clients with their forensic skills, while trying not to get emotionally involved.
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Six Dates with Barker (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Murphy
Cast Ronnie Parker · Michael Bates · Michael Hordern · Dennis Ramsden
Plot Six one-off episodes, by different writers, featuring actor-comedian Ronnie Barker.
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Alleyn Mysteries (TV Series)
1990 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Silvio Narizzano · Martyn Friend · John Woods · Sarah Pia Anderson
Cast William Simons · Patrick Malahide · Belinda Lang · Tim Dutton
Plot Drawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this...
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Our Miss Fred
1972 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bob Kellett
Cast Danny La Rue · Alfred Marks · Lance Percival · Lally Bowers
Plot Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He...
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The Moonstone (TV)
1972 · Movie · 225 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paddy Russell
Cast Basil Dignam · Robin Ellis · Vivien Heilbron · Anna Cropper
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Country Matters (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Donald McWhinnie · Barry Davis · David Giles · Peter Wood
Cast Peter Firth · Ian McKellen · Prunella Ransome · Stephan Chase
Plot TV Series (1972-1973). 2 Seasons, 13 Episodes. Country Matters portrays several romance stories, set in rural England just after the first World War. Each episode provides accurate and fascinating costume...
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Dombey and Son (TV Miniseries)
1969 · Movie · 325 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joan Craft
Cast John Carson · Kara Wilson · William Moore · Christopher Sandford
Plot The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to...
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Broth of a Boy
1959 · Movie · 77 min. · Ireland
Direction George Pollock
Cast Barry Fitzgerald · June Thorburn · Eddie Golden · Geoffrey Quigley
Plot A British TV producer is traveling in Ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world. He decides...
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Percy
1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Hywel Bennett · Denholm Elliott · Elke Sommer · Britt Ekland
Plot Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him...
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Interlude
1968 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kevin Billington
Cast Oskar Werner · Barbara Ferris · Virginia Maskell · Donald Sutherland
Plot A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and finds he's given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an...
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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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The Lively Arts (TV Series)
1975 · Documentary · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Barrie Gavin · Peter Butler · Kenneth Corden · Donald McWhinnie
Cast Melvyn Bragg · Andre Previn · Benjamin Luxon · Richard Baker
Plot TV Series (1975-1981). 40 episodes. Documentary series taking a serious and wide-ranging look at the arts, encompassing intellectual subject matter and popular culture.
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W. Somerset Maugham (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Moira Armstrong · Gilchrist Calder · Guy Verney · James Cellan Jones
Cast Anna Massey · Joss Ackland · Rossano Brazzi · Amanda Murray
Plot TV Series (1969-1970). 2 seasons. 26 episodes.
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Out of the Unknown (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond · Roger Jenkins · Naomi Capon · John Gorrie
Cast Peter Copley · Geoffrey Palmer · Erik Chitty · Charles Tingwell
Plot TV Series (1965–1971). Features adaptations of stories by famous sci-fi authors such as Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Fredrik Pohl, John Wyndham and others.
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