Joan Plowright

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Time Without Pity (1957): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…; Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows. Somewhat dated thriller…
Twelfth Night (1968): Dir. John Sichel
Feat. Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Ralph Richardson…; Shakespeare's farcical tale of mixed up lives and lovers at cross–purposes is brought to life by renowned actors Alec Guinness and Joan…
American Film Theatre - Three Sisters (1970): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright…; Three sisters stuck in the Russian provinces pine for distant Moscow in this comprehensively faithful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's famous 19th…
Equus (1977): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Joan Plowright…; Straightforward adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play concerning a disturbed stablehand (Peter Firth) with an equine fixation who has blinded some…
Britannia Hospital (1981): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright…; Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
Brimstone and Treacle (1982): Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Sting, Joan Plowright, Denholm Elliott…; Scripted by Dennis Potter, this cult psychodrama is set in the unstable household of Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliot, which is invaded by an…
Revolution (1985): Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski…; Disastrous epic with Pacino almost committing career suicide as a fur trapper caught in the upheaval of the American Revolution. Some handsome…
Drowning by Numbers (1987): Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson; Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
Importance of Being Earnest (1988): Dir. Stuart Burge
Feat. Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Paul McGann…; A straightforward and lucid version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, made for television by the BBC. McGann is a particular neurotic highlight.
I Love You to Death (1990): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright…; Kevin Kline heads a great cast in this endearing black comedy about an embittered housewife who creatively tries to bump off her chronically…
Enchanted April (1992): Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker…; A gentle, lucid ensemble piece about four women who escape the constrictions of Edwardian London for a month in a castle on the Riviera.
Stalin (1993): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright; Robert Duvall embodies the full–blooded treachery of the Soviet dictator in this mini–series biography shot on location in Moscow.
Summer House, The (1993): Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Joan Plowright, Jeanne Moreau, Julie Walters; Joan Plowright, Jeanne Moreau and Julie Walters bestow their presense on this wry and very witty melodrama that emanates from the prospect of…
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…
Dennis the Menace (1993): Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Mason Gamble, Walter Matthau, Christopher Lloyd…; 5–year old mobile disaster–zone Dennis (Mason Gamble), spreads glorious chaos wherever he pops up. As it is, he keeps Walter Matthau on…
Hotel Sorrento (1994): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Tara Morice, Joan Plowright, Ray Barrett…; Three estranged sisters reunite at their Aussie coastal home–town and rekindle both fond memories and unresolved tensions, that eventually…
Scarlet Letter, The (1995): Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall…; In a puritanical New England community, a married Demi Moore and preacher Gary Oldman have a passionate liaison. Passable version of Nathaniel…
Jane Eyre (1996): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, William Hurt…; Zeffirelli's version of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance, filmed in appropriately murky hues, preserves the sombre integrity of the novel. Charlotte…
101 Dalmatians (1996): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson…; Ambitious live–action remake of Disney's own animated hit sends both dog and breeder into panic mode when fiendish designer Cruella De Vil…
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…
Tea with Mussolini (1999): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith…; Dir. Franco Zeffirelli's childhood memoirs form the basis of this well–mannered period fancy that draws weight from the grand Dames of British…
Back to the Secret Garden (2001): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Joan Plowright, George Baker, Cherie Lunghi…; Sequel to the 1993 enchanted family adventure THE SECRET GARDEN set years later with the original children Mary and Colin now married (yes, they are…
Callas Forever (2003): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright; Dir. Franco Zeffirelli pays glorious homage to his longtime friend and colleague, the late opera legend Maria Callas, and the result is…
I Am David (2003): Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Ben Tibber; Generic adaptation of the popular young adult novel artlessly recreates the travails of young David as he flees the Eastern Europe labor camp and…
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005): Dir. Dan Ireland
Feat. Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend; Immensely popular drama strikes up great chemistry between its genteel, elderly titular character (Plowright) who is struggling to maintain her…
Tom's Midnight Garden (2006): Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright; A handsome screen version of children's novel by Phillipa Pearce, in which a young boy in the 1950s is sent to live with his aunt and uncle because…
Curious George (2006): Dir. Matthew O'Callaghan
Feat. Will Ferrell, Frank Welker, Drew Barrymore…; Popular monkey 'Curious George', who first appeared in the 1940s picture–books by Margaret and H A Rey, gets a nicely mischievious bigscreen…
Tea With the Dames (Nothing Like a Dame) (2018): Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright…; British acting legends Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith discuss their remarkable lives at Plowright's country home in…

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Filmography (All Films)