Screenplay: Hugh Leonard

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hugh Leonard. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

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

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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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