Nigel Hawthorne Trailers
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Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (April 5, 1929 – December 26, 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he would win four Bafta Awards during the 1980s in the 'Best Light Entertainment Performance' Category. In the 1990s He would win two more Bafta Awards, one as Best TV Actor for 'The Fragile Heart' and one as Best Film Actor for 'The Madness of King George'. His role in the latter also garnered him his sole Oscar Nomination.
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01 August 1997
The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the police listening, a pattern of spousal abuse emerges.
17 June 1999
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan.
08 October 1993
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong.
26 January 1992
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest ss
27 January 1980
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece.
01 January 1979
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
06 December 1985
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo.
07 December 1997
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
02 December 1980
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
24 April 1975
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home.
18 February 1958
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
09 February 1980
When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life.
28 August 1982
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.
07 May 1976
A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.
20 January 1981
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant.
08 May 1994
This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman.
27 February 1980
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air.
14 August 1992
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who kills his father in a bid to seize the throne.
24 July 1985
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King.
20 April 1999
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St.
28 December 1994
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788.
01 December 1982
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence.
25 August 1996
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
18 June 1982
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
08 November 1973
Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no memory?
22 April 1984
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
01 October 1982
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory.
14 October 1978
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
10 July 1998
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
23 December 1980
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family.
04 May 1975
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland.
29 December 1995
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself.
15 January 2013
This special one-off documentary celebrates the past and present of hit sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
26 April 1982
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
25 October 1996
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
28 July 1983
Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
02 February 1982
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her.
23 August 1989
In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
06 November 1978
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson.
14 March 1989
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits?
17 April 1998
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
29 May 1975
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
02 May 2001
Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman.
12 June 1981
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
25 October 1985
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941.
29 April 1980
Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.
03 March 2005
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
04 April 1994
Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.
30 March 1978
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum.
02 November 1976
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mistress for a start.
10 December 1997
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising.
13 June 1982
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
07 January 1971
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
27 September 1984
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island.
09 November 1991
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
01 December 1981
A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.
01 January 1976
A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder.
12 November 1999
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
20 July 1972
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
18 March 1999
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
