Biography: John Wood |
British actor John Wood attended Oxford, where he served as president of the university's Dramatic Society. After serving as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Academy, Wood joined the Old Vic in 1954, then spent several seasons with the Royal... more
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A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2002)
Tags: Biography Music Music History
Length: 50min
Directed by Jeroen Berkvens, this documentary traces the life of British rocker Nick Drake, who, after a successful musical career during the late '60s and early '70s, died of a possibly accidental overdose of prescription antidepressants in his...
Tags: Drama Psychological Thriller
Length: 107min
Julia (Kate Beckinsale) has been busy about her job, doing painstaking restoration work on a fifteenth-century painting. As good restoration work is at least as much about doing good research and detective work as it is about the physical process of...
Cast: Harvey Keitel
Tags: Drama Police Drama
Length: 103min
Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young Britons into hardened...
Cast: Richard Attenborough Anthony Hopkins Debra Winger
Tags: Period Film Romance Biopic Drama Marriage Drama
Length: 130min
This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between novelist and noted Christian scholar C.S. Lewis and a Jewish-American poet. Anthony Hopkins stars as C.S. "Jack" Lewis, an Oxford...
Cast: Harrison Ford Sydney Pollack John Williams
Tags: Romance Comedy Sophisticated Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 127min
A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder omance, this updated version of the play +Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the...
Length: 95min
Based loosely on a true story, Bullseye takes place in the Australia of the mid-19th century. Disgruntled ranch hand Paul Goddard finds a ray of happiness in his relationship with maidservant Kathryn Walker. But when the maid comes into an...
Tags: Period Film Feminist Film Drama Fantasy
Length: 93min
Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with...
Cast: Nicole Kidman
Length: 87min
Career counsellor Michael Thornton (Chris Haywood) decides to change his career and become an actor in this low-budget comedy. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend...
Cast: Penny Marshall Whoopi Goldberg
Tags: Action Comedy Spy Film Comedy Thriller Comedy Spy Comedy
Length: 98min
Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City...
Cast: John Wood
Tags: Period Film Biopic Historical Film
Length: 140min
Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of...
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