1937-12-31 Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Wife & Dog | 2026-10-23 | |
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
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Locked | William | 2025-03-20 |
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Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon | Self | 2024-04-18 |
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Mary | King Herod | 2024-12-12 |
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Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver | Jimmy (voice) | 2024-04-19 |
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One Life | Nicholas Winton | 2023-12-21 |
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Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-09-16 |
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire | Jimmy (voice) | 2023-12-15 |
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Freud's Last Session | Sigmund Freud | 2023-12-22 |
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Where Are You | Thomas | 2022-10-21 |
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Armageddon Time | Aaron Rabinowitz | 2022-10-28 |
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The Son | Anthony | 2022-11-10 |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
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Zero Contact | Finley Hart | 2022-05-27 |
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The Virtuoso | The Mentor | 2021-04-30 |
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Parkinson at 50 | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-28 |
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
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The Father | Anthony | 2020-12-23 |
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Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis | 2020-12-04 |
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The Two Popes | Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI | 2019-11-27 |
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Love, Antosha | Self (voice) | 2019-08-02 |
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King Lear | Lear | 2018-05-28 |
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Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2018-05-02 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Odin | 2017-10-02 |
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Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton | 2017-06-16 |
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Spielberg | John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2017-10-05 |
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Misconduct | Arthur Denning | 2016-02-05 |
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Collide | Hagen Kahl | 2016-06-10 |
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The Dresser | Sir | 2015-10-31 |
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Solace | John Clancy | 2015-09-03 |
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Blackway | Lester | 2015-10-03 |
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken | Freddy Heineken | 2015-03-12 |
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Noah | Methuselah | 2014-03-07 |
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | Self / Ieuan Davies | 2013-09-28 |
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Thor: The Dark World | Odin | 2013-10-30 |
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RED 2 | Bailey | 2013-07-18 |
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360 | John | 2012-07-25 |
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Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe | Self | 2012-09-25 |
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Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | 2012-11-22 |
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Thor | Odin | 2011-04-21 |
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Thor: From Asgard to Earth | Self | 2011-09-13 |
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The Rite | Father Lucas Trevant | 2011-01-28 |
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The Third Rule | Fabian Hogarth | 2010-04-23 |
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Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence | Self | 2010-01-01 |
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie | 2010-09-22 |
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The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot | 2010-02-10 |
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Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs | Self | 2010-09-08 |
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Bare Knuckles | Xavier Jonas (uncredited) | 2010-01-01 |
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The City of Your Final Destination | Adam Gund | 2009-03-21 |
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Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster | 2007-07-13 |
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Fracture | Theodore Crawford | 2007-04-19 |
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The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' | Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-08 |
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Slipstream | Felix Bonhoeffer | 2007-02-10 |
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Clint Eastwood Presents Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends | Self | 2007-09-12 |
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Beowulf | Hrothgar | 2007-11-05 |
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All the King's Men | Judge Irwin | 2006-09-10 |
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Bobby | John Casey | 2006-09-05 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 |
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The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro | 2005-10-12 |
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A Tribute To Ismail Merchant | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-30 |
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The True Story of Hannibal | Self | 2005-01-02 |
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Proof | Robert Llewellyn | 2005-09-05 |
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Alexander | Old Ptolemy | 2004-11-21 |
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A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Self | 2003-04-03 |
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The Human Stain | Coleman Silk | 2003-10-29 |
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Red Dragon | Hannibal Lecter | 2002-10-02 |
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Bad Company | Oakes | 2002-06-07 |
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The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan | 2001-09-28 |
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Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul | Self | 2001-04-01 |
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Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self | 2001-08-21 |
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | 2001-08-21 |
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Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' | Self | 2001-10-22 |
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Unmasking Zorro | Self | 2001-09-25 |
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Hannibal | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | 2001-02-08 |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Narrator (voice) | 2000-11-17 |
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The Many Faces of Zorro | Self | 2000-12-26 |
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Mission: Impossible II | Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited) | 2000-05-24 |
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Little Secret | Narrator | 1999-09-16 |
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Instinct | Dr. Ethan Powell | 1999-06-04 |
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Titus | Titus Andronicus | 1999-12-25 |
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Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator | 1999-10-01 |
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Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | 1998-11-12 |
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The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro | 1998-07-16 |
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Junket Whore | Self | 1998-10-12 |
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Amistad | John Quincy Adams | 1997-12-10 |
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The Edge | Charles Morse | 1997-09-06 |
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The Lost Children of Berlin | Narrator | 1997-01-01 |
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels | Self | 1996-05-19 |
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August | Ieuan Davies | 1996-08-08 |
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Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | 1996-09-04 |
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Nixon | Richard Nixon | 1995-12-22 |
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Legends of the Fall | Col. William Ludlow | 1994-12-23 |
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One | Self | 1994-08-11 |
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The Road to Wellville | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg | 1994-10-28 |
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The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | 1993-11-05 |
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The Innocent | Glass | 1993-09-16 |
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Shadowlands | C. S. 'Jack' Lewis | 1993-12-25 |
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The Trial | The Priest | 1993-06-18 |
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Spotswood | Errol Wallace | 1992-01-23 |
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Bram Stoker's Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing | 1992-11-13 |
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Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
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Freejack | Ian McCandless | 1992-01-17 |
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Howards End | Henry J. Wilcox | 1992-03-13 |
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies | Self | 1992-11-13 |
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Chaplin | George Hayden | 1992-12-17 |
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One Man’s War | Joel | 1991-04-20 |
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The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | 1991-02-14 |
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The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self | 1991-08-20 |
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Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell | 1990-10-05 |
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Heartland | Jack | 1989-02-21 |
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Faroe Islands | (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
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A Chorus of Disapproval | Dafydd Ap Llewellyn | 1989-08-18 |
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Across the Lake | Donald Campbell | 1988-09-04 |
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The Dawning | Cassius / Angus Barrie | 1988-06-08 |
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The Tenth Man | Jean Louis Cheval | 1988-12-04 |
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84 Charing Cross Road | Frank P. Doel | 1987-02-13 |
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Blunt | Guy Burgess | 1987-01-11 |
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Guilty Conscience | Arthur Jamison | 1985-04-02 |
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The Good Father | Bill Hooper | 1985-11-01 |
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Arch of Triumph | Dr. Ravic | 1984-12-19 |
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The Bounty | Lieutenant William Bligh | 1984-05-04 |
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Little Eyolf | Alfred Allmers | 1982-07-19 |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | 1982-02-02 |
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Othello | Othello | 1981-10-04 |
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The Bunker | Adolf Hitler | 1981-04-15 |
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A Change of Seasons | Adam Evans | 1980-12-01 |
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The Elephant Man | Frederick Treves | 1980-10-09 |
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | Captain Jones | 1979-11-21 |
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International Velvet | Captain Johnson | 1978-07-19 |
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Magic | Corky Withers/Fats (voice) | 1978-11-08 |
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A Bridge Too Far | Lt. Col. John D. Frost | 1977-06-15 |
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Audrey Rose | Elliot Hoover | 1977-04-06 |
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Dark Victory | Dr. Michael Grant | 1976-02-05 |
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Richard Hauptmann | 1976-02-26 |
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Victory at Entebbe | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | 1976-12-22 |
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All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | 1975-07-27 |
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Juggernaut | Supt. John McCleod | 1974-09-25 |
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The Childhood Friend | Alexander Tashkov | 1974-06-27 |
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The Girl from Petrovka | Kostya | 1974-12-12 |
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The Arcata Promise | Theo Gunge | 1974-09-22 |
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The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family | Hi | 1973-08-21 |
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A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | 1973-04-10 |
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Young Winston | David Llyod George | 1972-07-20 |
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Poet Game | Hugh Saunders | 1972-03-14 |
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When Eight Bells Toll | Philip Calvert | 1971-04-30 |
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Uncle Vanya | Astrov | 1970-11-08 |
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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | Charles Dickens | 1970-07-02 |
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The Three Sisters | Andrey | 1970-01-18 |
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Hearts and Flowers | Bob | 1970-12-03 |
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The Looking Glass War | John Avery | 1970-01-02 |
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Hamlet | Claudius | 1969-12-21 |
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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt | Wat Tyler | 1969-01-01 |
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Red, White, and Zero | Brechtian | 1968-01-30 |
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The Lion in Winter | Richard | 1968-08-20 |
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The White Bus | Brechtian | 1967-12-01 |
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Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary | Self | |
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The Species | Charles Darwin | |
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A Visit to Grandpa’s | ||
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Eyes in the Trees | Dr. Addis | |
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The King of Covent Garden | Georg Friedrich Händel | |
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Cus & Mike | Cus D’Amato | |
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Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess | Ben Windsor | |
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Maserati: The Brothers | Luca Antonelli | |
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The Housekeeper | Lord Grenville-Whithers | |
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Hrothgar |
