Movies: Benjamin Whitrow

Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation....

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for he...

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier....

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent....

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI....

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene....

An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting...

A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy whose father is killed in Naples, when a pig falls on him as a balcony collapses. The incident haunts ...

Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of C...

An author writes to his old schoolmate, telling him he is going to reveal a secret they have shared since the 1950s....

A barrister's complex life unravels as he juggles a court case and highly-strung mistress....

Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home....

A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice....

Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale...

Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying guest. At first wary of him, Esme becomes increasingly fond of this dapper little man with his myster...

An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims - a sophisticated comedy....

A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite author....

An 83 year-old man returns to Germany for a long planned journey of atonement. When Ross, his useless son agrees to drive him there, a nightmare family road trip ensues....

A factory's workforce is dwindling as divisions between the workers and management widen....

When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which c...