Screenplay: Edmund Ward

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


The Professionals (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston

Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice

Synopsis This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. The relationship between Bodie,...

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 votes

A Prayer for the Dying

1987 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Mickey Rourke · Bob Hoskins · Liam Neeson · Alan Bates

Synopsis Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

The Plane Makers (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Ferman · John Cooper · Quentin Lawrence · John Nelson-Burton

Cast Patrick Wymark · Jack Watling · Norma Ronald · Reginald Marsh

Synopsis The day-to-day story of a multi-million pound aerospace company, its new jet plane, its test-pilot, its workers and its ruthless and hard-nosed managing director John Wilder, the embodiment of modern, unflinching capitalism.

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Kings and Desperate Men

1981 · Movie · 118 min. · Canada

Direction Alexis Kanner

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Alexis Kanner · Andrea Marcovicci · Margaret Trudeau

Synopsis On the eve of Christmas, an urbane, loutish and acidly cynical Montreal radio talk-show host is taken hostage in his own studio by a band of crusading terrorists who want a new on-the-air trial of a comrade they feel was...

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1990 (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Gibson · David Sullivan Proudfoot · Kenneth Ives · Peter Sasdy

Cast Edward Woodward · Robert Lang · Tony Doyle · Paul Hardwick

Synopsis TV Series (1977-1978). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. In a dystopian future, Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.

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Goodbye Gemini

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Gibson

Cast Judy Geeson · Martin Potter · Michael Redgrave · Alexis Kanner

Synopsis Unnaturally close twin siblings Jacki and Julian become enmeshed in the swinging London scene, where they attract the attention of the heavily endebted gambler Clive. Seeing a way out of his debts, Clive sets Julian up for a blackmail scheme,...

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Man in a Suitcase (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Harris · Dennis Spooner · Charles Crichton · Peter Duffell

Cast Richard Bradford · Ricardo Montez · Warren Stanhope · Frank Forsyth

Synopsis McGill (known as "Mac") was a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his "false" reputation has preceded him everywhere he goes. To make ends...

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The Violent Enemy

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Tom Bell · Susan Hampshire · Ed Begley · Noel Purcell

Synopsis Irish terrorist breaks out of prison, and heads back to Ireland intending to blow up an electronics factory

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