Robert Powell
Actor
Films to Rent
- Secrets (1971)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Per Oscarsson, Robert Powell
- British erotic drama taking place over a single day in the life of a housewife (Jacqueline Bisset) who is having an affair, while her husband (Robert…
- Edwardians, The (1972)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, James Cellan Jones, Alan Clarke
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Timothy West, Robert Powell…
- Superb examination of eight famous Edwardians who helped shape the early 20th century. Impeccably presented and directed by some of the BBC's finest…
- Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell
- Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
- Mahler (1974)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale…
- Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
- Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…
- Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
- 39 Steps, The (Thirty-Nine Steps, The) (1978)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter…
- Perhaps the most literally faithful of the various adaptations of John Buchan's classic suspense novel. Powell plays the man on the run in…
- Four Feathers, The (1978)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Jane Seymour, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell
- Fine costume drama, based on A E W Mason's classic tale of a British officer charged with cowardice, who regains his honour and his love, during an…
- Harlequin (1980)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. David Hemmings, Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford
- A modern–day version of the Rasputin story, in which a senator and his wife fall prey to the spellbinding powers of a manipulative Harlequin…
- Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, MIchael Wager…
- Delightful Merchant Ivory production has two rival theatre companies dueling over the right to produce a recently discovered Jane Austen manuscript.…
- Shaka Zulu (TV Mini-series) (1984)
- Dir. William C Faure
Feat. Robert Powell, Edward Fox, Henry Cele
- Set in 19th century South Africa, this recounts the epic land wars between the Zulu tribes and European immigrants, with true TV mini–series…
- Jigsaw Man, The (1984)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George…
- Squandered reteaming of SLEUTH adversaries Olivier and Caine finds the latter, playing a double agent, evading the manhunt of British and Russian spy…
- Chunuk Bair (1992)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Robert Powell, Kevin J. Wilson, Jed Brophy
- Modest, reverent account of an exhausted and shell–shocked Wellington regiment of the ANZAC forces who endeavoured to gain control of the ridge…