John Irvin
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston
- Alec Guinness returns as John Le Carre's retired agent George Smiley, this time lured back to trace an infiltrator at his old stomping ground.
- Dogs of War, The (1980)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Christopher Walken, Colin Blakely, Tom Berenger
- Frederick Forsyth's best–seller gets reasonably good treatment here, Christopher Walken playing a hard bastard mercenary hired by Big Business…
- Ghost Story (1981)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Fred Astaire, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Melvyn Douglas…
- Eerie chiller based on the Peter Straub potboiler has four elderly gentlemen who are bound by a dark secret gather each week to tell each other…
- Turtle Diary (1985)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Glenda Jackson
- Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson seek to liberate giant turtles from London Zoo. Screenplay by Harold Pinter.
- Raw Deal (1986)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Formula action with Arnie as trouble–shooting former FBI agent.
- Hamburger Hill (1987)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Anthony Barrile, Don Cheadle, Courtney B. Vance…
- Matter–of–fact depiction of a particularly costly battle of the Vietnam War, in which US troops repeatedly tried to capture 'Hill 937' in…
- Next of Kin (1989)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt…
- Patrick Swayze is at his two–fisted best as a tough Chicago cop who teams with his hillbilly kinfolk when a young brother is brutally murdered…
- Robin Hood (1991)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jeroen Krabbe
- Bergin inhabits the role of the noble swashbuckler in this modest adaptation of the Anglo legend.
- Widow's Peak (1993)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Mia Farrow
- In 1920s Ireland, Joan Plowright presides over a widow's community and engages in emotional game–playing with Natasha Richardson and Mia…
- Month by the Lake, A (1996)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman
- The second H.E. Bates adaptation of 1996 (after FEAST OF JULY) is a lush autumnal romance set on the shores of Italy's Lake Como. Vanessa Redgrave…
- City of Industry (1996)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen
- A jewel heist goes wrong with double–crossings eventuating in a bitter wrangle between laconic veteran Harvey Keitel and hot–head upstart…
- Fourth Angel, The (2001)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Charlotte Rampling…
- The inimitable Jeremy Irons plays a magazine editor whose family are killed in a terrorist attack by a Serbian man, and he decides to seek justice…