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.
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- 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…