Claire Bloom
Actor
Limelight (1951)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom
- Charlie Chaplin's final film recreates in spirit his poverty–stricken London boyhood and escape into the vaudeville world.
With such…
Alexander the Great (1956)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom
- Earnest epic follows the life and early death of the Greek warrior who conquered the entire known world. This seismic production has Richard Burton…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom…
- A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia.
Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
Look Back in Anger (1958)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
- Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Haunting, The (1963)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…
- Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie.
Played…
Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom…
- Stark yet gripping adaptation of John Le Carre's espionage novel. Richard Burton plays the dispossessed spy reluctantly engaged in the most dangerous…
Charly (1968)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala…
- Child–minded Cliff Robertson has experimental brain–surgery, but his resulting super–intellect proves a mixed blessing. Credible,…
Illustrated Man, The (1969)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom
- Bizarrely conceived encounter with an embittered Rod Steiger, who tells a stranger of his all–over body tattoos, which then mysteriously induce…
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…
Islands in the Stream (1977)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland…
- Solid, well–constructed adaptation of one of the more thoughtful Hemingway novels, with Scott as the sculptor who chooses to live in exile on a…
Henry VIII (1979)
- Dir. Kevin Billington
Feat. Timothy West, Claire Bloom, Ronald Pickup…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Hamlet (1980)
- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series) (1981)
- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick…
- Famous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel chronicles one Charles Ryder and his relationship with the Marchmain family in England between the wars.…
Clash of the Titans (1981)
- Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress
- Brave stab at visualising Greek mythology, taking the Perseus legend as its basis, this turned out to be the swansong for Ray Harryhausen and his…
Time for Murder (1985)
- Feat. Claire Bloom, Charles Dance, Sylvia Syms…
- This unheralded, one–off British crime series commissioned six authors to conceive a series of murder mysteries for the small screen. A superb…
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom
- Against a backdrop of London's riot–torn streets, Sammy and Rosie conduct an open relationship while his disturbed father, an exiled Indian…
Camomile Lawn, The (1992)
- Feat. Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle
- Handsomely mounted for it's time, this TV miniseries is set in 1939 in Cornwall, against the backdrop of the final days of the Spanish Civil War and…
Book Of Eve, The (2002)
- Dir. Claude Fournier
Feat. Claire Bloom, Susannah York, Daniel Lavoie
- Canadian romantic drama with Claire Bloom playing a reclusive married woman who falls in love with a Romanian immigrant.
Imagining Argentina (2003)
- Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades…
- A controversial adaptation of Lawrence Thornton's award–winning novel, set in the Argentine dictatorship of the mid–1970s.
Thompson is…
King's Speech, The (2010)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Justly acclaimed tale of King George VI, his nervy, impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become…