Edward Petherbridge
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1936-08-03
Place of Birth:West Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Europe After the Rain (1978)
Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell (2002)
As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost...

Lovers of Their Time (1982)
A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.

The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)
A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

The Shining Pyramid (1979)
When stones begin miraculously arranging themselves on the edge of one young man's private land, he and his friend begin trying to decipher them in...

Sword of Honour (2001)
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is...

Dead of Night: The Exorcism (1972)
Four wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.

The Three Sisters (1981)
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga...

Operation Magic Carpet (1973)
“Go on. Go mad – let her in. We’ve let in twenty-odd thousand already. She’s pretty, and Leicester could do with a decent few...

King Lear (1983)
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

On Call (1972)
Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.

Pope Joan (2009)
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

The Ash Tree (1975)
Man of leisure Sir Richard receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands. On his return...

Casting the Runes (1979)
The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves

A Christmas Carol (1999)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

Journey's End (1988)
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Knots (1975)
A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised...

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they...

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another...

The Statement (2003)
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which...

True Patriot (1977)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April...

Strange Interlude (1988)
Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy...

Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in...

Midsomer Murders (1997)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

The Bill (1984)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of...

Silent Witness (1996)
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Crown Court (1972)
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

The New Avengers (1976)
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...

The Guardians (1971)
The Guardians is a television drama series of 13x60 minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network...

The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

No Strings (1989)
Sam Jessop (Edward Petherbridge) arrives home from work to discover that his wife has left him and run away with another man. Out of curiosity, he...

Maigret (1992)
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s...

Dead of Night (1972)
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a...

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter...

The Brief (2004)
Henry Farmer is a clever minded criminal practice attorney whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading...

Tony Awards (1956)
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he...

Wessex Tales (1973)
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories written by novelist Thomas Hardy.

Softly Softly: Task Force (1969)
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off...

Land Girls (2009)
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971)
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at...

The Informer (1966)
A disgraced ex-lawyer, now released from prison, uses his accumulated knowledge to earn a living from both sides of the law.

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates after the novelist Harriet Vane is accused of poisoning her former lover.