Filmography from Joss Ackland

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Hogfather, Vadim Jean, 2006
It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened....

Jekyll & Hyde, David Wickes, 1990
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting...

Lethal Weapon 2, Richard Donner, 1989
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A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway, 1985
Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first one leg then the other. When Alba dies, the twins film their own death. ...

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It, Joseph McGrath, 1977
The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it- until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker Street, and send the Police Commisioner of Scotland Yard to employ...

The House That Dripped Blood, Peter Duffell, 1971
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house: 1) A writer encounters a strangler of his own creation, 2) Two men are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past, 3) A little girl displays an interest in witchcraft, and 4) A film actor discovers a cloak which gives him a vampire's powers. ...

Rasputin: The Mad Monk, Don Sharp, 1966
Thrown out of his monestary for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck. Through a daliance with one of the czarina's ladies in waiting he soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism. But he also makes enemies who wish to see him dead....

Sen noci svatojánské, Jirí Trnka, 1959
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Ghost Ship, Vernon Sewell, 1952
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Jonathan Alwyn (7 episodes, 1971-1973), Alan Cooke (3 episodes, 1971), Jim Goddard (3 episodes, 1971), Derek Bennett (2 episodes, 1973), Reginald Collin (2 episodes, 1973), Graham Evans (2 episodes, 1973), Bill Bain (1 episode, 1971), Piers Haggard (1 episode, 1971), Kim Mills (1 episode, 1971), Mike Vardy (1 episode, 1971), Peter Duguid (1 episode, 1973), Don Leaver (1 episode, 1973), Dennis Vance (1 episode, 1973), 0
This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had appeared in popular ongoing series of short stories or novels. "Rivals" featured the only dramatizations to date of such period characters as Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"...

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Carl Schultz (21 episodes, 1992-1993), Simon Wincer (6 episodes, 1992-1993), René Manzor (2 episodes, 1992-1993), Ellery Ryan (2 episodes, 1992), Bille August (2 episodes, 1993), Mike Newell (2 episodes, 1993), Vic Armstrong (1 episode, 1992), Terry Jones (1 episode, 1992), Jim O'Brien (1 episode, 1992), David Hare (1 episode, 1993), Joe Johnston (1 episode, 1993), Dick Maas (1 episode, 1993), Syd Macartney (1 episode, 1993), Peter MacDonald (1 episode, 1993), Gillies MacKinnon (1 episode, 1993), Deepa Mehta (1 episode, 1993), Gavin Millar (1 episode, 1993), Nicolas Roeg (1 episode, 1993), Michael Schultz (1 episode, 1993), Robert Young (1 episode, 1993), 0
The now legendary, almost mythical character of Indiana Jones once had a childhood. Every episode starts out with the elderly man that he is in the 1990's getting into a specific situation where he has to tell a story from his past. The stories go back to when he was ten years old and on a world tour with his father, and to his late-teens when he fought in World War I....