Julie Walters
Actor
Films to Rent
- Best of Victoria Wood, The
- Feat. Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge
- An excellent compilation of British comedienne Victoria Wood's television career, which stretches from the 1980s to the present. Sketch titles…
- Educating Rita (1983)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Julie Walters, Michael Caine
- Satisfying modern take on Pygmalion, with uncultured fair lady Julie Walters and sceptical tutor Michael Caine.
- She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984)
- Dir. John Goldschmidt
Feat. Julie Walters, Anthony Higgins
- Eight women come together to have a crack at a week–long survival course, so as to let off some steam and gather life–focus.
Leading…
- Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, The (1985)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Lulu …
- Engaging TV adaptation of Sue Townsend's much–loved book about the pains of adolescence chronicled by a teenage diarist as he struggles to come…
- Personal Services (1987)
- Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Julie Walters
- A prudish waitress (Julie Walters) discovers there's a buck to be made in servicing the less savoury needs of middle–aged men. Very English sex…
- Complete Talking Heads, The (TV Miniseries) (1987-1998)
- Dir. Alan Bennett
Feat. Alan Bennett, Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird…
- Much–feted 1980s TV series comprising a series of six stage monologues by renowned playwright Alan Bennett, devised to depict various suffering…
- Mack the Knife (1989)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julie Walters…
- Muddled adaptation of The Threepenny Opera is notable for some pretty inept dance sequences and some rather overt mugging by some well–known…
- Stepping Out (1991)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters, Shelley Winters…
- Liza Minnelli slips on her dancing shoes as a part–time instructor who introduces a group of disparate housewives into the world of tap.
- G.B.H (TV Mini-series) (1991)
- Feat. Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Dearbhla Molloy…
- Dynamite Channel 4 mini–series from the pointed pen of tele–writer Alan Bleasdale plays out the battle of wits between a mad Labour Party…
- Just Like a Woman (1993)
- Dir. Chris Monger
Feat. Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar, Gordon Kennedy
- Likeable gender–bending farce stars Julie Walters as a bored divorcee who discovers her hunky new boarder is a straight man who just happens to…
- Pat and Margaret (1994)
- Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Victoria Wood, Julie Walters
- Teledrama has Wood and Walters play long lost sisters – one a successful American 'soap' actress, the other a dowdy waitress – reunited…
- Sister, My Sister (1995)
- Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May
- Two sibling maids flirt with incest, madness and a homicidal tendencies toward their employer. Bleak melodrama builts to a haunting finale, though it…
- Intimate Relations (1995)
- Dir. Philip Goodhew
Feat. Julie Walters, Rupert Graves
- House matron Julie Walters and her daughter become engaged in a queasy sexual tug–o–war for strapping boarder Rupert Graves. It turns…
- Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood (1995)
- Feat. Julie Walters, Ian Holm, Danny De Vito
- Mr. Dahl’s twisted sensibility is all over this loose version of Grimm’s tale, that boasts an acting pedigree and imaginative costume and…
- Jake's Progress (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Robert Lindsay, Julie Walters
- Oddly masterful Alan Bleasdale drama stars G.B.H's Robert Lindsay as a failed musician who learns from a fortune teller that he'll die shortly after…
- Victoria Wood Live (1997)
- Feat. Victoria Wood, Julie Walters
- Live stand–up sketches from BAFTA winning Brit comedienne and actress Victoria Wood on her sell–out 2007 tour, occasionally accompanied…
- Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1997)
- Feat. Tim Dutton, Julie Walters, Adrian Dunbar…
- Alan Bleasdale cleverly reworks Francis Durbridge's famous novel, relocating its thriller premise of a man who falls in love with a mysterious,…
- Girls' Night (1998)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn
- A windfall at the local bingo hall puts air in the wings of forty–something factory gals Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn, but a wheel of…
- Oliver Twist (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Alan Bleasdale, Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay…
- Charles Dickens' enduring classic of orphan Oliver's hardships in Victorian London.
Here the timeless story gets the lavish six hour treatment at…
- Billy Elliot (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Daldry
Feat. Jamie Bell, Julie Walters
- While his father and brother bare the burden of the protracted miner's strike in early 80s Yorkshire, an 11–year–old lad skives off from…
- Before You Go (2001)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Julie Walters, Tom Wilkinson, Joanne Whalley…
- A lightly melancholic comedy, in which three sisters settle scores at their mother’s funeral.
The talents of the sparky threesome –…
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese…
- The second Harry Potter adaptation is better fun and more settled in its mingled tone of magic, fantasy and thriller.
Daniel Radcliffe again plays…
- Calendar Girls (2003)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett…
- A group of middle–aged Yorkshire–women decide to disrobe for a charity calender, in an affirmative spin on the FULL MONTY…
- Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…
- A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
- Return, The (2003)
- Dir. Dermot Boyd
Feat. Julie Walters, Neil Dudgeon, Ger Ryan
- An affecting performance from Julie Walters enlivens an otherwise routine drama concerning a woman's release from prison after the murder of her…
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane…
- Young Harry's troublesome education continues at Hogswarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry, in this increasingly confident series, here given a…
- Mickybo and Me (2005)
- Dir. Terry Loane
Feat. Adrian Dunbar, Gina McKee, Susan Lynch…
- Widely praised though little–seen drama which observes the friendship between two young lads – one Catholic, one Protestant –…
- Wah-Wah (2005)
- Dir. Richard E. Grant
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson…
- A caustic memoir of colonial growing pains from actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), chronicling his own adolescence in Swaziland during the…
- Driving Lessons (2006)
- Dir. Jeremy Brock
Feat. Julie Walters, Laura Linney, Rupert Grint
- Both a coming–of–age and late–life story, this British feel–gooder concerns a shy teenager (Grint), who under the influence…
- Sally Lockhart Mysteries, The (TV Mini-series) (The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North ) (2006-2007)
- Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Billie Piper, Julie Walters
- Billy Piper stars as Sally Lockhart – the gutsy mystery–solving heroine of this Victorian England mystery series adapted straight from…