Joss Ackland
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Ghost Ship (1952)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…
- Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
- Silver Bears (1977)
- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan…
- Low–key crime comedy caper with Michael Caine playing a financial wizard working with a crime boss to launder money from a Swiss bank.
- White Mischief (1987)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles…
- Popular tale of drugs, decadence, wife–swapping and murder–mystery in colonial Kenya, with an attractive cast.
- Sicilian, The (1987)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland…
- Still reeling from the box office catastrophe of HEAVEN'S GATE, Michael Cimino turned his attention to this Mario Puzo–scripted saga about an…
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci…
- Riggs and Murtaugh are back in a slicker, crasser, bigger–budget sequel, the hallmarks of Bond–style franchise fare. With Mel Gibson,…
- Bridge, The (1991)
- Dir. Sydney MacCartney
Feat. Saskia Reeves, David O'Hara, Joss Ackland…
- A moving–canvas period drama about a romantic liaison between a married mother (Saskia Reeves) and a impressionist painter. Over–familiar…
- Object of Beauty (1991)
- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Feat. Andie MacDowell, John Malkovich, Joss Ackland…
- An amusing black comedy set around a pair of passionate high–flying art lovers, who contrive the theft of a prized sculpture while in London,…
- A Murder of Quality (1991)
- Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Denholm Elliott, Glenda Jackson, Joss Ackland…
- Tele–movie based on the novel by John le Carré, who also served here as screenwriter, following the fictional character George Smiley…
- Kid in King Arthur's Court, A (1995)
- Dir. Michael Gottlieb
Feat. Kate Winslet, Daniel Craig, Art Malik…
- Handsome if inessential Disney spin on the Camelot legend, in which a young boy journeys back in time to help King Arthur overcome an evil villain.…
- To the Ends of Time (1996)
- Dir. Markus Rothkranz
Feat. Joss Ackland, Christine Taylor
- Elaborate fantasy–tale concerns a sorceress who tampers with Time, causing young hero Joss Ackland to prematurely age. While also keeping an…
- Surviving Picasso (1997)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore…
- Anthony Hopkins acts his beret off in this portrait of the insatiable, cantankerous Spanish genius and the trail of emotional devastation he left…
- I'll Be There (2003)
- Dir. Craig Ferguson
Feat. Craig Ferguson, Charlotte Church, Joss Ackland…
- Surprisingly likeable light comedy has an aging 80s popstar discovering by chance the daughter he never knew he had.
Travelling to Wales, he finds…
- Asylum (2005)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland…
- Tense psychological thriller from the dir. of YOUNG ADAM that owes plenty to the master Hitch, with Natasha Richardson in fine form as a bored…
- Above and Beyond (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Jason Priestley, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Welsh…
- Commendable mini–series based on the true story of the Atlantic Ferry Operation in WW2 – a last–ditch aerial attack from Canada's…
- Hogfather (Terry Pratchett's Hogfather) (2006)
- Dir. Vadim Jean
Feat. David Jason, Marc Warren, Nigel Planer…
- Another installment in Terry Pratchett's universe sees Discworld's equivalent to Father Christmas 'the Hogfather' go missing on Hogswatch eve with…
- How About You? (2008)
- Dir. Anthony Byrne
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton…
- Hardcase comedy adapted from a short story by Maeve Binchy, in which a young woman unexpectedly put in charge of a retirement home owned by her…
- Crusoe (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Philip Winchester, Tongayi Chirisa, Sam Neill…
- Lavishly mounted, if undeniably corny production of Daniel Defoe’s island classic, with the titular castaway fending off pirates, mutineers and…