Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish-born English actor and film director. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, but has also appeared in a number of films and television series.
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Death on the Nile (2020)
As: Hercule Poirot
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling ...
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Annette Bening | Armie Hammer | Kenneth Branagh | Gal Gadot | Letitia Wright
Tenet (2020)
As: Andrei Sator
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Runtime: 195 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Robert Pattinson | Dimple Kapadia | Kenneth Branagh | Elizabeth Debicki | John David Washington
Lost Lives (2019)
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Dermot Lavery | Michael Hewitt
Stars: Liam Neeson | Stephen Rea | Kenneth Branagh | Martin McCann | Brid Brennan
All Is True (2018)
As: William Shakespeare
A look at the final days in the life of renown playwright William Shakespeare.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Ian McKellen | Lydia Wilson | Kenneth Branagh | Judi Dench | Kathryn Wilder
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
As: Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up ...
Runtime: 149 min.
Directed by: Anthony Russo | Joe Russo
Stars: Chris Evans | Benedict Cumberbatch | Chris Hemsworth | Robert Downey Jr. | Scarlett Johansson
The Dunkirk Spirit: Behind the Making of the Movie (2018)
As: Self
Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan's sweeping, emotional epic. Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea and home almost within sight, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. The story unfolds on land, sea and ...
Runtime: 28 min.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Mark Rylance | Christopher Nolan | Nathan Crowley | Emma Thomas
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
As: Hercule Poirot
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Penélope Cruz | Johnny Depp | Kenneth Branagh | Judi Dench
Dunkirk (2017)
As: Commander Bolton
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Lee Armstrong | Aneurin Barnard | Damien Bonnard | James Bloor | Fionn Whitehead
Mindhorn (2017)
As: Kenneth Branagh
A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Sean Foley
Stars: Essie Davis | Steve Coogan | Simon Farnaby | Julian Barratt | Richard McCabe
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer (2016)
As: Archie Rice
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Rob Ashford | Benjamin Caron
Stars: Greta Scacchi | Kenneth Branagh | Gawn Grainger | Sophie McShera | Phil Dunster
The Troubled Man (2016)
As: Kurt Wallander
Wallander grapples with dementia and a Cold War mystery in his final adventure.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Caron
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Terrence Hardiman | Jeany Spark | Boel Larsson | John Lightbody
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
As: Leontes
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
Runtime: 210 min.
Directed by: Rob Ashford | Kenneth Branagh | Benjamin Caron
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Judi Dench | Miranda Raison | Jaygann Ayeh | Tom Bateman
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)
As: Himself
A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Runtime: 43 min.
Stars: Clark Gregg | Kenneth Branagh | Robert Downey Jr. | Scarlett Johansson | Hayley Atwell
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
As: Viktor Cherevin
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Keira Knightley | Chris Pine | Kevin Costner | Kenneth Branagh | Lenn Kudrjawizki
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
As: Macbeth
National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s electrifying production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse, Thoroughly Modern Millie on ...
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh | Rob Ashford
Stars: John Shrapnel | Kenneth Branagh | Ray Fearon | Alex Kingston | Alexander Vlahos
Stars In Shorts (2012)
As: Mark Snow
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Robert Festinger | Jay Kamen | Rupert Friend | Jacob Chase | Chris Foggin | Benjamin Grayson | Neil LaBute
Stars: Sam Cohen | Marin Ireland | Wes Bentley | Julia Stiles | Sarah Paulson
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder (2012)
As: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event. The Opening Ceremony reflected the key themes and priorities of the ...
Runtime: 352 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Paul McCartney | Kenneth Branagh | Queen Elizabeth II | J.K. Rowling | Mike Oldfield
The Dogs of Riga (2012)
As: Kurt Wallander
The discovery of two dead youths in a dinghy which washes into Ystad, Sweden, brings hard-drinking Latvian detective Karlis Liepa from Riga. This starts off a chain of dangerous events, from the docks in Sweden to the back-streets of Riga.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Esther Campbell
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Arturs Skrastins | Rebekah Staton
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
As: Sir Laurence Olivier
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Simon Curtis
Stars: Michelle Williams | Kenneth Branagh | Julia Ormond | Judi Dench | Eddie Redmayne
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)
As: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
Stars: Eli Roth | Paul Scheer | Kenneth Branagh | Seth Rogen | Frank Miller
Prodigal (2011)
As: Mark Snow
A father seeks to rescue his daughter from two organizations intent on acquiring her "special" abilities.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Grayson
Stars: Winter Ave Zoli | Kenneth Branagh | Jennifer Morrison | Taylor Kinney | Jade Pettyjohn
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)
As: Himself
At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics, Stan Lee has co-created over 500 legendary pop culture characters including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk. Stan continues to create new material and entertain fans of all ages with fantastic stories and characters ...
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Terry Dougas | Nikki Frakes | Will Hess
Stars: Sean Astin | Michael Chiklis | Thomas Haden Church | Kenneth Branagh | Stan Lee
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
As: Himself
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ...
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Martin Landau | Kenneth Branagh | Omar Sharif | Robert Osborne
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
As: Himself
A look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Mel Brooks | Bryan Singer | David Koepp | Ken Follett
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
As: Narrator (voice)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year is a once-over-lightly evocation of a slate of classic films unmatched before or since. In a year permitting 10 Best Picture nominees, the final cut included Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Love Affair. Shut out: The Roaring '20s, The Hunchback ...
Runtime: 69 min.
Directed by: Constantine Nasr
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Clark Gable | Judy Garland | Olivia de Havilland | Vivien Leigh
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
As: Dormandy
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Stars: Rhys Ifans | Emma Thompson | Tom Sturridge | Bill Nighy | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Valkyrie (2008)
As: Henning von Tresckow
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Stars: Kenneth Cranham | Carice van Houten | Bill Nighy | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Cruise
One Step Behind (2008)
As: Kurt Wallander
Three youngsters are shot dead whilst having a woodland picnic in fancy dress. The corpses are found, and a friend of the victims is also slain, having told Wallander that his workmate was really gay, and that he is a transvestite, and a wholly murderous one, who adds to his toll of dead by killing a further trio of innocents.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Philip Martin
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hiddleston | Tom Beard | Sarah Smart | Sadie Shimmin
Firewall (2008)
As: Kurt Wallander
In the town of Ystad, police inspector Wallander has two deaths to investigate that seem entirely unconnected: a taxi driver who has been brutally beaten by two teenage girls and later dies, and a computer consultant who has dropped dead in front of a cash machine. But soon enough mysterious and grisly events begin taking place. Events linked to something much more sinister that might ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Niall MacCormick
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hiddleston
Sleuth (2007)
As: Other Man on T.V.
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Michael Caine | Jude Law | Kenneth Branagh | Harold Pinter | Carmel O'Sullivan
James Ellis: An Actor's Life (2007)
As: Himself
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Eric Gillespie
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Brid Brennan | Bill Bryden | Anne Devlin | James Ellis
Warm Springs (2005)
As: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Matt O'Leary | Cynthia Nixon | Kenneth Branagh | David Paymer | Tim Blake Nelson
The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
As: Narrator
The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary kept by the chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, revealing the man's most inner thoughts.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Stars: Kenneth Branagh
Five Children and It (2004)
As: Uncle Albert
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: John Stephenson
Stars: Freddie Highmore | Tara Fitzgerald | Alex Jennings | Jonathan Bailey | Jessica Claridge
Cecil B DeMille: American Epic (2004)
As: Narrator
Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Kevin Brownlow
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Martin Scorsese | Kenneth Branagh
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
As: Gilderoy Lockhart
Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Runtime: 161 min.
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Stars: Fiona Shaw | Rupert Grint | Richard Griffiths | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)
As: Peter McGowan
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Michael Kalesniko
Stars: Robin Wright | Jared Harris | Lynn Redgrave | Kenneth Branagh | Suzi Hofrichter
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
As: Self / Narrator (voice)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
Runtime: 55 min.
Directed by: Michael Kloft | Kevin Brownlow
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Sydney Chaplin | Ray Bradbury | Walter Bernstein | Brigitte Hamann
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
As: A. O. Neville
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Stars: David Gulpilil | Everlyn Sampi | Tianna Sansbury | Laura Monaghan | Ningali Lawford
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2001)
As: Himself / Narrator
This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of 100's whittled down to the eventual three girls and follows them through workshops and into the difficult shoot.
Runtime: 43 min.
Directed by: Darlene Johnson
Stars: Jason Clarke | Cheryl Carter | Kenneth Branagh | Stacey Bedford | Danielle
Conspiracy (2001)
As: Reinhard Heydrich
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Frank Pierson
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Colin Firth | Kenneth Branagh | Ian McNeice | Tom Hiddleston
Schneider's 2nd Stage (2001)
As: Joseph Barnett
A short thriller directed by Phil Stoole.
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Phil Stoole
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Gerard Horan | Fiona Woolley | Tim Stoole | Terence Pritchard
The Ballad of Big Al (2000)
As: Narrator
A BBC documentary sequel to the acclaimed miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al chronicles the life of one Allosaurus fragilis named Big Al.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Kate Bartlett
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Avery Brooks
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
As: Himself / Narrator
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary..
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Kevin Brownlow
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Orson Welles | Lon Chaney | Lon Chaney Jr. | Ron Chaney
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
As: Berowne
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Natascha McElhone | Alessandro Nivola | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Alicia Silverstone
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
As: Miguel (voice)
After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled inhabitants promptly begin to worship them as gods. The only question is, do they take the worshipful natives for all they're worth, or is there a bit more to El Dorado than ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Bibo Bergeron | Don Paul | Jeffrey Katzenberg
Stars: Armand Assante | Rosie Perez | Kevin Kline | Edward James Olmos | Kenneth Branagh
The Making of "Walking with Dinosaurs" (2000)
As: Narrator
A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these pre-historic behemoths but their behaviour as well for the BBC natural history documentary miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs.
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: Jasper James
Stars: Kenneth Branagh
The Periwig-Maker (2000)
As: Periwig-maker (voice)
Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. When she dies, the wigmaker goes to the mass grave where she's buried and cuts off her luxurious red hair; he makes himself a wig from it, and soon dies.
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Steffen Schäffler
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Daren C. Evans | Alice Fairhall | Roger Law
Galapagos: The Enchanted Voyage (1999)
As: Narrator
Retrace the groundbreaking footsteps of Charles Darwin with a young scientist as she explores the biological diversity and unique geologic history of the Galapagos archipelago. Using the magic of IMAX® and IMAX® 3D technology, plunge 3,000 feet into underground lava tubes, soar over the peaks of 5,000 foot volcanoes and encounter an abundance of marine life.
Runtime: 39 min.
Directed by: Al Giddings | David Clark
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Carole Baldwin | John E. McCosker | David Pawson | Mathias Espinosa
Wild Wild West (1999)
As: Dr. Arliss Loveless
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Kevin Kline | Salma Hayek | Kenneth Branagh | M. Emmet Walsh | Will Smith
The Theory of Flight (1999)
As: Richard
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ray Stevenson | Gemma Jones | Kenneth Branagh | Holly Aird
Universal Horror (1998)
As: Narrator
Universal Horror is a documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930's and 1940's.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Kevin Brownlow
Stars: Carla Laemmle | James Karen | Kenneth Branagh | Nina Foch | Ray Bradbury
Celebrity (1998)
As: Lee Simon
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Joe Mantegna | Charlize Theron | Kenneth Branagh | Judy Davis
The Proposition (1998)
As: Father Michael McKinnon
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter
Stars: William Hurt | Kenneth Branagh | Madeleine Stowe | Robert Loggia | Bronia Wheeler
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
As: Rick Magruder
Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at a party celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the catering staff, Mallory Doss, discovers her car has been stolen. Having had a few drinks, Magruder offers to give her a lift home, a decision that turns into a one night stand. Rick soon learns that her nut-case father, Dixon, seems to have begun threatening her again. Rick puts the ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Tom Berenger | Kenneth Branagh | Robert Downey Jr. | Daryl Hannah | Embeth Davidtz
Hamlet (1996)
As: Prince Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Runtime: 242 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kate Winslet | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Julie Christie
Looking For Richard (1996)
As: Himself/Interview
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Al Pacino
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Aidan Quinn | Winona Ryder | Alec Baldwin | Al Pacino
Othello (1995)
As: Iago
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Oliver Parker
Stars: Laurence Fishburne | Irène Jacob | Michael Maloney | Nathaniel Parker | Kenneth Branagh
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
As: Narration (voice)
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust. Written by Dawn M. Barclift
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Jon Blair
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Glenn Close
Frankenstein (1994)
As: Victor Frankenstein
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Robert De Niro | Aidan Quinn | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hulce
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
As: Himself
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thomas Edison's 1910 filmization to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 treatment, plus interviews with Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Roger Corman and others. Hosted by Roger Moore; narrated by Eli Wallach.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Richard Brown
Stars: Robert De Niro | Rick Baker | Kenneth Branagh | Mel Brooks | Francis Ford Coppola
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
As: Benedick
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Michael Keaton | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Robert Sean Leonard
Swing Kids (1993)
As: Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Thomas Carter
Stars: Christian Bale | Barbara Hershey | Tushka Bergen | Frank Whaley | Robert Sean Leonard
Peter's Friends (1992)
As: Andrew Benson
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common now.Peter's friends are Andrew (Branagh), now a writer in Hollywood; married jingle writers Roger (Laurie) and Mary (Staunton); glamorous costume ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Imelda Staunton | Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie
Dead Again (1991)
As: Roman Strauss / Mike Church
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Lois Hall | Richard Easton | Andy García
Discovering Hamlet (1990)
As: Himself / Hamlet
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark ...
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Mark Olshaker
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Clifford | Patrick Stewart | Richard Easton
Henry V (1989)
As: Henry V
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Paul Scofield | Kenneth Branagh | Brian Blessed | James Larkin
Look Back in Anger (1989)
As: Jimmy Porter
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Judi Dench
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Gerard Horan | Siobhan Redmond | Edward Jewesbury
High Season (1987)
As: Rick
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Clare Peploe
Stars: James Fox | Kenneth Branagh | Jacqueline Bisset | Irene Papas | Sebastian Shaw
Lorna (1987)
As: Billy Martin
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: James Ormerod
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Brid Brennan | Mark Mulholland | James Ellis | Tracey Lynch
A Month in the Country (1987)
As: James Soon
Set in the early 1920s, the film follows Tom Birkin, who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is cathartic for Birkin, haunted by his experiences in World War I. Birkin soon fits into the slow-paced life of the remote village, and over the course of the ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Colin Firth | Jim Carter | Patrick Malahide | Kenneth Branagh | Natasha Richardson
The Lady's Not For Burning (1987)
As: Thomas Mendip
A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Julian Amyes
Stars: Kenneth Branagh | Cherie Lunghi | Trevor Peacock | Susannah Harker | Angela Thorne
To the Lighthouse (1983)
As: Charles Tansley
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Colin Gregg
Stars: Rosemary Harris | Kenneth Branagh | Michael Gough | Suzanne Bertish | Lynsey Baxter
Easter 2016 (1982)
As: Student
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Runtime: 68 min.
Directed by: Ben Bolt
Stars: Colm Meaney | Bill Nighy | Denys Hawthorne | Derrick O'Connor | Eileen Pollock