James Ivory
Director, Actor
Householder, The (1963)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote…
- A young Indian newlywed is ill–prepared for marriage to his charming but independent wife and seeks advice from his tyrannical mother, a…
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey
- The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
Bombay Talkie (1970)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin
- Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Savages (1972)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…
- Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason
- Merchant Ivory production about an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) who has left her homeland and lives in contemporary London. On the anniversary of…
Roseland (1977)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin…
- Three separate but interlocking stories set in New York's famed dance palace, about people trying to essentially, 'find the right dance partner'.…
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee
- Television film from Merchant Ivory productions, about an attempted theft of valuable paintings from an Indian palace. The thieves include a museum…
Europeans, The (1979)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Lee Remick, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn
- Possibly the best of the early Merchant–Ivory productions develops Henry James' novel of 19th century New England into a subtle study of family…
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.…
Quartet (1981)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith…
- Merchant–Ivory period drama, starring Isabelle Adjani as a young Parisian who moves in with an older couple following the arrest of her husband.