Michael Gambon
Actor
Films to Rent
- Terence Rattigan Collection, The (1962-1994)
- Feat. Kenneth More, Ralph Richardson, Geraldine McEwan…
- A boxed compendium of Terence Rattigan's finest work, a British playwright reknowned for his profound understanding of the human heart and his…
- Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors…
- Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
- Singing Detective, The (TV Series) (1986)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Michael Gambon, Joanne Whalley, Patrick Malahide…
- Ground–breaking fantasy–drama from the unique genius of Dennis Potter. Michael Gambon is brilliant as a bed–ridden, frustrated…
- Ghosts (1987)
- Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh…
- BBC television adaptation of Ibsen's great, once–controversial play about secrets and lies, sex and hypocrisy, starring Judy Dench as Mrs…
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon
- Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
- Storyteller: Greek Myths, The (1990)
- Feat. Michael Gambon
- Another excellently produced run of Jim Henson's STORYTELLER tales, this time focusing on the Greek myths of "Daedalus and Icarus", "Orpheus and…
- Maigret (TV Series) (1992-1993)
- Feat. Michael Gambon, Jack Galloway
- Michael Gambon plays Chief Inspector Jules Maigret of the Paris Surete in this realistic crime series centred on Maigret's investigations into…
- Toys (1993)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack…
- Even Robin Williams' enormous talent and inspired art direction fail to enliven this comic fantasy. It plays more like a bad dream from which you…
- Man of No Importance, A (1994)
- Dir. Suri Krishnamma
Feat. Albert Finney, Tara Fitzgerald, Michael Gambon…
- An ensemble comedy set in 1963 Dublin where suppressed homosexual bus conductor Albert Finney aspires to direct a production of Oscar Wilde's Salome,…
- Bullet to Beijing (1995)
- Dir. George Mihalka
Feat. Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara…
- Fourth outing for Michael Caine as the dog–eared spy Harry Palmer, sent to Moscow, this time to recover a stolen 'Doomsday'–style…
- Innocent Sleep, The (1995)
- Dir. Scott Michell
Feat. Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra…
- Rupert Graves makes a convincing derelict who unveils a complex international conspiracy after reporting a Thames–side murder to the police. An…
- Two Deaths (1995)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Michael Gambon, Sonia Braga, Patrick Malahide…
- On the eve of the violent fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, a wealthy doctor (Gambon) throws a dinner party for his friends, which…
- Mary Reilly (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. John Malkovich, Julia Roberts, Michael Gambon…
- John Malkovich and Juila Roberts star in this alternative take on R.L. Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde story – the toil and double trouble is seen…
- Midnight in St. Petersburg (1996)
- Dir. Douglas Jackson
Feat. Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Sarrazin…
- Formulaic final outing for Harry Palmer as a consignment of plutonium falls into the hands of the Russian Mafia.
- Wings of the Dove, The (1997)
- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Charlotte Rampling…
- Helena Bonham–Carter, back in costume, shines in this adaptation of the Henry James novel, playing a 19th century gentlewoman on the…
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack
- The acclaimed stageplay by Brian Friel is given a top notch cast to embody the passionate Irish dilemmas of its characters. Family and National…
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken…
- The oft–filmed short story 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is fashioned by illustrious iconoclast Tim Burton as the goriest, most…
- Insider, The (1999)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer…
- A brooding masterpiece from dir. Mann (HEAT), who finally wrestles down a topic of sufficient weight to justify the peerless brilliance of his…
- Longitude (1999)
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry…
- Adapted from the book by Dava Sobel, this tells the intriguing story surrounding the 18th century search for an accurate way to calculate longitude,…
- Wives and Daughters (2000)
- Dir. Nicholas Renton
Feat. Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Michael Gambon…
- A BBC adaptation of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell's neglected masterpiece, in which the daughter of a widower is thwarted by her new…
- High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
- Dir. Mel Smith
Feat. Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Michael Gambon
- Down–at–heels Minnie Driver and Mary McCormack decide to crash a heist they’ve stumbled onto by blackmailing their way into some of the…
- Gosford Park (2001)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith…
- A handsome recital of Agatha Christie–style whodunnit and ‘upstairs–downstairs’ class–drama set in the confines of an English…
- Beckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001)
- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons…
- An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors.
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- Charlotte Gray (2002)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon
- WWII France is the backdrop for a love–triangle in this well–made, though sappy war–romance, Cate Blanchett providing a compelling…
- A Monkey's Tale (2002)
- Dir. Jean Francois Laguionie
Feat. Rik Mayall, John Hurt, Michael York…
- More sophisticated than most, this French animated fantasy concerns two rival monkey tribes – the Woonkos and Laankos – who live a…
- Lost Prince, The (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Gina McKee, Miranda Richardson, Bibi Andersson…
- A sumptuous BBC production concerning Prince John, the youngest son of King George V of England, whose autism and mild epilepsy embarrassed the…
- Sylvia (2003)
- Dir. Christine Jeffs
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Blythe Danner…
- A simply formed, yet resonant portrait of the brilliant, doomed poet Sylvia Plath (Paltrow), recounting her years of marriage to (also poet) Ted…
- Open Range (2003)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening…
- Costner stars and takes the reins of this latterday Western about a group of itinerant cattle grazers fending off the thuggish tactics of a brutal…
- Actors, The (2003)
- Dir. Conor McPherson
Feat. Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Miranda Richardson…
- Top brass actors grace this amiable comic caper about two struggling theatre players whose "talents" get them mixed up in London's criminal…
- 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…