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Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured romantic hero whose all-consuming passions destroy both him and those around him.

He is better known as a romantic hero, due to his love for Catherine Earnshaw, than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, in which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that he was an upset and sometimes malicious individual from the beginning. His complicated, mesmerising and altogether bizarre nature makes him a rare character, with components of both the hero and villain.

Best films

Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
(1939)

Played by the actors

Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
(1 films)
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
(1 films)
Robert Cavanah
Robert Cavanah
(1 films)
Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer
(1 films)
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton
(1 films)
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Filmography of Heathcliff (5 films)

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1992)
, 1h45
Directed by Peter Kosminsky
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Northam, John Woodvine, Sophie Ward
Rating65% 3.299653.299653.299653.299653.29965
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, released in 1992, is based on the 1847 book by Emily Brontë which was written a year before her death. It is her first and only prose novel. The movie revolves around the lives of the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It portrays the role of suffering, revenge and unrequited love in society.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1970)
, 1h44
Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Julian Glover, Judy Cornwell
Rating63% 3.198053.198053.198053.198053.19805
Le maître du domaine des Hauts de Hurlevent, Mr Earnshaw, élève dans la quiétude ses deux enfants, Hindley et Cathy. Un jour, il recueille un jeune bohémien, Heathcliff qu'il décide de prendre sous sa protection et d'élever comme son fils. Quelques années plus tard, Heathcliff, devenu un homme, est amoureux de Cathy... Mais il ne peut l'épouser à cause de sa basse condition sociale.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1939)
, 1h44
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
Rating74% 3.747433.747433.747433.747433.74743
A traveller named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, despite the cold behaviour of his aged host, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier). Late that night, after being shown into an upstairs room that was once a bridal chamber, Lockwood is awakened by a cold draft and finds the window shutter flapping back and forth. Just as he is about to close it, he feels an icy hand clutching his and sees a woman outside calling, "Heathcliff, let me in! I'm out on the moors. It's Cathy!" Lockwood calls Heathcliff and tells him what he saw, whereupon the enraged Heathcliff throws him out of the room. As soon as Lockwood is gone, Heathcliff frantically calls out to Cathy, runs down the stairs and out of the house, into the snowstorm.