Eric Porter

Across the years BBC Television has consistently looked to the works of Charles Dickens for intelligent, colourful, accessible and popular drama. Dickens' novels are ideal for television - his writing has a great theatrical and visual quality; his st...

Oliver Twist (Mini-Series) (1985)

Gareth Davies

Lysette Anthony,Godfrey James,Ben Rodska,Amanda Harris,David Garlick,Scott Funnell,Pip Donaghy,Dominic Jephcott,Gillian Martell,Michael Attwell,Miriam Margolyes,Eric Porter

TV Mini-series,Television

A psychiatrist (Eric Porter) treats a young woman (Angharad Rees) following the murder of her aunt. He shuns the notion that she is possessed, but she continues to kill while under his care. Using hypnosis, he discovers that glittering lights and gestures...

Hands Of The Ripper (1971)

Peter Sasdy

Dora Bryan,Derek Godfrey,Angharad Rees,Jane Merrow,Keith Bell,Eric Porter

General Horror,Suspense & Thriller,General Thriller,Horror

Returning to Denmark, Prince Hamlet finds his father killed and the throne usurped by his Uncle. Inspired by his father's ghost to seek vengeance, he is forced to consider the nature of murder and violence, revenge and intrigue, sex and desire, paranoia ...

Shakespeare's - Hamlet (1980)

Rodney Bennet

Patrick Stewart,Patrick Allen,Derek Jacobi,Eric Porter,Claire Bloom

General Drama,Period Drama,Drama

TV viewers first met secret agent CALLAN in a one-off armchair theatre play A Magnum For Schneider, in which the disgraced former top secret service agent is seconded to a government section devoted to the elimination of undesirables - by whatever means n...

Callan The Film (1973)

Voytek J. Goddard

Edward Woodward,William Squire,Carl Mohner,Patrick Mower,Russell Hunter,Eric Porter

General Thriller,Suspense & Thriller

Based on Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel of political intrigue, The Day of the Jackal, tells of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of J...

The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

Fred Zinnemann

Eric Porter,Cyril Cusack,Alan Badel,Tony Britton,Michel Lonsdale,Delphine Seyrig,Edward Fox

Murder,General Thriller,Suspense & Thriller