Ben Chaplin
Actor
- Remains of the Day (1993)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve…
- Note–perfect adaptation of the Booker–winning novel plays out its key themes of duty and betrayal, love and loss with effortless class,…
- Feast of July (1995)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
Feat. Embeth Davidtz, Tom Bell, Ben Chaplin…
- This Merchant–Ivory production atypically focuses on the underclass, but still bares their predelictions – family politics and tragedy,…
- Truth About Cats and Dogs (1995)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, Uma Thurman
- Cyrano De Bergerac is reworked for the girls in this highly digestible romantic fable.
Fresh faces Janeanne Garofalo and Brit hunk Ben Chaplin…
- Washington Square (1997)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith…
- Portrait of a lady adapted from the pen of Henry James profits from an exemplary Jennifer Jason Leigh performance – as an eccentric, plain…
- Lost Souls (2000)
- Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…
- Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
- Birthday Girl (2002)
- Dir. Jez Butterworth
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel…
- Competent comic–thriller in which the limited social horizons of bank–clerk Ben Chaplin lead him to ‘order’ Russian mail–order…
- Stage Beauty (2004)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Rupert Everett…
- An unusual delve into the gender politics of English theatre in the Restoration period of the 1660s, when King Charles II (Everett) decided to end…
- Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007)
- Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…
- NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
- Dorian Gray (2009)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall…
- Hit–and–miss Gothic imagining of Oscar Wilde's classic, with Ben Barnes as the ageless man and Colin Firth as the silver–tongued…
- Me and Orson Welles (2009)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay…
- Dir. Richard Linklater impeccably evokes the charms of 30's New York for this traditional backstage drama that has great affection for the era and…
- London Boulevard (2010)
- Dir. William Monahan
Feat. Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis…
- An ex–con turned celebrity bodyguard finds himself unwittingly drawn back into London's criminal underworld in this confident directorial debut…
- Mad Dogs (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley…
- Oddly unsettling and engaging in equal measure, this mid–life black comedy centres on four middle–aged blokes who reunite to celebrate…
- Twixt (2011)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern…
- Silly, though intermittently stylish late Francis Ford Coppola piece, with Val Kilmer as an alcoholic horror novelist who is visited by a young ghost…
- World Without End (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Nora von Waldstätten…
- Thinly drawn companion piece to THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH nonetheless makes for essential viewing for fans of the original historical series. Also…
- Wipers Times, The (2013)
- Dir. Andy De Emmony
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin
- The horrors of trench warfare are matched with alleviating gallows humour in this strangely moving tale of a satirical newspaper published on the…
- Cinderella (2015)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden…
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh re–imagines the classic tale of young Ella who finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters, and…
- Apple Tree Yard (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Jessica Hobbs
Feat. Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin
- Gripping drama with Emily Watson superb as a woman whose impulsive and passionate affair with a complete stranger is the first in a series of events…
- Press (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. Charlotte Riley, Ben Chaplin
- 6–part British TV drama following the staff of two contrasting and competing newspapers, one a lef–leaning broadsheet fighting to survive…