Anna Massey
Actor
Peeping Tom (1960)
- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
- While Hitchcock's PSYCHO received raves reviews and general acceptance, Michael Powell's equally contentious but brilliant film was condemned as…
How the West Was Won (1962)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…
- The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…
- Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all.
Both a finely…
Frenzy (1972)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster…
- Hitchcock's last really great thriller, concerning a Cockney strangler plaguing the streets of London and setting up Jon Finch as the wrong man.…
A Doll's House (1973)
- Dir. Patrick Garland
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson…
- A stagey, though strongly acted version of Henrik Ibsen's renowned proto–feminist stageplay set in a 19th century household beset by personal…
Pallisers, The (TV Series) (1974)
- Dir. Hugh David
Feat. Phillip Latham, Barbara Murray, Susan Hampshire…
- Substantial saga of wealth, passion, power, and scandal set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid–Victorian England,…
Mayor of Casterbridge, The (1978)
- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Bates, Anna Massey, Anne Stallybrass…
- Dennis Potter–scribed Victorian saga sees Alan Bates, battling alcoholism, sell his wife and daughter under the influence, before resolving to…
Little Romance, A (1979)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Arthur Hill…
- Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
Cherry Orchard, The (1981)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall…
- BBC television drama based on the classic 1904 play by Anton Chekhov about the decline of the Russian aristocracy in general and one high–born…
Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1982)
- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne…
- Scandal inflames the once placid town of Barchester, in this typically astute BBC production of Anthony Trollope's novel. A young Alan Rickman holds…
Sacred Hearts (1985)
- Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Anna Massey
- Earnest drama set in a repressive convent (run by Anna Massey) during the Blitz.
Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont…
- BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
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.
Disc…
Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures (2004)
- Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Olivia Williams, Anna Massey
- BBC teledrama that focuses on the real life disappearance of detective–writer Agatha Christie in 1926, which has already spawned at least one…
He Knew He Was Right (2004)
- Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Anna Massey…
- This dexterous, Dickens–esque romance from the quill of Anthony Trollope follows the marital adventures of Louis and Emily Trevelyan, with the…
Pinochet's Last Stand (Pinochet in Suburbia) (2006)
- Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law…
- Drama about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, following attempts that were made to extradite him to Spain after he was arrested for human…
Oxford Murders, The (2008)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling…
- At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical…