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Charles Jarrott is a Director, Writer and Director of Photography British born on 16 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Charles Jarrott (16 June 1927 – 4 March 2011) was a British film and television director. He was best known for costume dramas he directed for producer Hal B. Wallis, among them Anne of the Thousand Days, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Director in 1970.
Although Anne was nominated for several awards, critic Pauline Kael wrote in her book Reeling (Warner Books, p. 198), that as a director, Jarrott had no style or personality, and that he was just "a traffic manager." Nevertheless, his next film, Mary, Queen of Scots, was nominated for six Academy Awards and several Golden Globes.
Jarrott was the son of English racing car driver and businessman Charles Jarrott (racing driver), and was married to actress Katharine Blake.
Jarrott died on 4 March 2011 from prostate cancer.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 16 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 4 march 2011 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 16 june 1927 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 4 march 2011 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Although Anne was nominated for several awards, critic Pauline Kael wrote in her book Reeling (Warner Books, p. 198), that as a director, Jarrott had no style or personality, and that he was just "a traffic manager." Nevertheless, his next film, Mary, Queen of Scots, was nominated for six Academy Awards and several Golden Globes.
Jarrott was the son of English racing car driver and businessman Charles Jarrott (racing driver), and was married to actress Katharine Blake.
Jarrott died on 4 March 2011 from prostate cancer.
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Turn of Faith (2002)
, 1h36Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Charles Durning, Mia Sara, Costas Mandylor, Alan Gelfant, Tom Atkins, Tony Sirico
Rating53%
The film follows three friends, a cop, a priest and a kid from the neighborhood who wants to handle the family business. Then a man named Philly enters the
The Secret Life of Algernon (1997)
, 1h46Directed by Charles Jarrott
Genres Comedy
Actors John Cullum, Carrie-Anne Moss, Charles Durning, Harant Alianak
Rating57%
Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making things out of bones... he boils a neighbor's dead dog for the bones... and he is visited by an old friend who is dying of ailments and thus commits suicide, leaving a million dollars in a suitcase. A woman claiming to be interested in Algernon's Egyptologist great grandfather pretends to be in love with Algernon... and he almost falls for it.
The Christmas List (1997)
, 1h26Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Mimi Rogers, Rob Stewart, Stella Stevens, Enuka Okuma, Marla Maples, Bill Switzer
Rating66%
The story follows the life of the 35-year-old Melody Parris (Played by Mimi Rogers), a skilled perfume girl, who is living a somewhat flavourless life in Seattle, with a pompous, pushy boyfriend named George and an overbearing mother (Stella Stevens) who lives right next door to her, who is obsessed with her getting married.
Treacherous Beauties (1994)
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Emma Samms, Bruce Greenwood, Catherine Oxenberg, Tippi Hedren, Mark Humphrey, Rachael Crawford
Rating58%
Anne-Marie Kerr, une photo-reporter aguerrie, croit que la mort de son frère Alan n'est sans doute pas aussi accidentelle qu'il y paraît. Elle décide alors de mener sa propre enquête.
Changes (1991)
, 1h36Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Michael Nouri, Christopher Gartin, Christie Clark, Renée O'Connor, Ami Foster
Rating59%
Melanie Adams is a divorced mother who gave birth to twin girls Val and Jessica at age 19. Nowadays, she is a successful news correspondent working in New York City. For her latest story, she travels to Los Angeles to do a report on a sick, but optimistic girl. She immediately feels attracted to the girl's doctor, Peter Hallam. Peter is a widowed father of three children; 18-year-old Mark, 15-year-old Pam, and 8-year-old Matt. Their mother died of a pulmonary hypertension, refusing treatment. The family is still grieving, and especially Pam has difficulty dealing with the loss.
Night of the Fox (1990)
, 3h20Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin, John Mills, Juliet Mills, David Birney
Rating60%
Professor Alan Stacy visits Jersey to complete his biography of his friend and pre-World War II fellow academic Harry Martineau, but arrives on the day of Harry’s funeral. Only one mourner is present, Dr Sarah Drayton. Invited back to her house, he is told by Sarah that the two of them worked for Special Operations Executive during the war. She shows Stacy a photo of them posing with Field-Marshal Rommel, and then tells the story behind the photo.
The Woman He Loved (1988)
, 1h40Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Olivia de Havilland, Tom Wilkinson, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy
Rating61%
28 mai 1972, le duc de Windsor, ex-roi Édouard VII, décède d'un cancer de la gorge un mois avant ses 78 ans dans sa résidence du Bois de Boulogne à Paris. Seule, ayant perdu son mari et son titre de duchesse, sa femme Wallis qui commence à être gagnée par la sénilité à 76 ans, se souvient des 35 années passées avec nostalgie et regret.
, 4hDirected by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Fairuza Balk, David Ackroyd, Nicholas Clay, Burl Ives, James Read
Rating68%
The film begins in 1917 with the opening of the 1000th Woolworth's store, known as the Woolworth Tower. Barbara is seen with her family as her grandfather, Frank Woolworth, delivers a speech. After the commemoration, Frank expresses his disappointment to his daughter Edna that her husband Franklin was not present to celebrate the opening of the new store. Edna acknowledges that her husband is a philanderer, drunk, and gambler but replies that he still happens to be Barbara's father. Later that night in their apartment at the Plaza hotel, Edna leaves Barbara a note under her pillow, then walks back to her room and drinks poison. Barbara wakes up to find her mother dead.
The Boy in Blue (1986)
, 1h40Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Christopher Plummer, Cynthia Dale, David Naughton, Melody Anderson, Sean Sullivan
Rating53%
A wild, uncontrollable youth, Ned Hanlan is adopted by a gambler named Bill, who promotes the boy on the sculling circuit for his own monetary gain. A businessman named Knox assumes control of Hanlan's career, but when Ned discovers just how ruthless Knox can be, he casts his lot with the first honest man he has met, inventor-speculator Walter.
Condorman (1981)
, 1h30Directed by Charles Jarrott, Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes La bande dessinée, Spy films, Superhero films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Dana Elcar, Vernon Dobtcheff
Rating56%
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sending him crashing into the Seine River. Later after the incident, Woody is asked by his friend, CIA file clerk Harry, to perform what appears to be a civilian paper swap in Istanbul. Upon arriving in Istanbul, he meets a beautiful Soviet named Natalia Rambova, who poses as the Soviet civilian with whom the exchange is supposed to take place, but it is later revealed that she is in fact a KGB spy. Woody does not tell Natalia his real name, and instead fabricates his identity to her as a top American agent code-named "Condorman". During the encounter, Woody fends off a group of would-be assassins and saves her life by sheer luck before accomplishing the paper trade. Impressed by Woody, and disgusted by how she was treated by her lover/boss Krokov when she returns to Moscow, Natalia decides to defect and asks the CIA to have "Condorman" be the agent that helps her.
The Amateur (1981)
, 1h52Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Nicholas Campbell, George Coe
Rating58%
When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a CIA cryptographer blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Once there, however, he discovers a web of deception underneath his fiancée's death.
, 1h37Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Dana Elcar, John Fujioka
Rating56%
A jaded pilot named Noah Dugan (Gould) is unemployed and owes a large amount of money due to his gambling. He goes to an old friend, Stoney (Vincent Gardenia), who owns an airfield. He is offered a job flying a cargo of animals to a remote South Pacific island aboard a B-29 bomber, a large plane well past its prime (having born the brunt of U.S. combat against Japan decades earlier during World War II). Bernadette Lafleur (Bujold) is the prim missionary who accompanies him. Bernadette has raised the animals at an orphanage and is close to two of the orphans, Bobby and Julie (Schroder and Tammy Lauren).
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
, 2h45Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films
Actors Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christian Marquand
Rating60%
In World War II France, young and attractive Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with Larry Douglas (John Beck), an American pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force stationed in France. The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States. Larry promises to come back for Noelle and marry her. She later finds out that she's pregnant with his child. However, he never returns.
The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
, 1h44Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses, Children's films
Actors Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth, Maurice Colbourne, Andrew Harrison, Prunella Scales, Joe Gladwin
Rating68%
A coal mine in 1909 Yorkshire, England has used ponies to haul coal for many years. When they are to be replaced by machinery that will speed up production and increase profits, three children – Dave (Andrew Harrison), Tommy (Benjie Bolgar) and Alice (Chloe Franks) – learn the ponies are to be slaughtered so they team up in a scheme to steal the horses and give them their freedom.
The Dove (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, Dabney Coleman, John McLiam, John Anderson, John Meillon
Rating61%
The film tells of real-life Robin Lee Graham (Joseph Bottoms), a 16-year-old boy who sets out in a 23-foot sloop and is determined to be the youngest person to circumnavigate the world. He had planned the long trip with his sailor father Lyle Graham (John McLiam) for years.