Kenneth Branagh

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Coming Through (1985): Dir. Peter Barber-Fleming
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman; D.H. Lawrence's love affair with the married Frieda Von Richthofen is entwined with the life of a man in the present day who is obsessed with the…
Month in the Country, A (1987): Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson; Colin Firth plays a shellshocked WW1 vet keen to recoup a medieval painting in a remote Yorkshire town. Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson prove…
Ghosts (1987): Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh…; BBC television adaptation of Ibsen's great, once–controversial play about secrets and lies, sex and hypocrisy, starring Judy Dench as Mrs…
Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987): Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennett…; An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
Twelfth Night (1988): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe; Kenneth Branagh restages his Renaissance Theatre production of the popular comedy for Thames Television with a top cast of English thespians.
Henry V (1989): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed…; A remarkable achievement from Kenneth Branagh both as actor and first–time director, he brings a new vitality to Shakespeare's most energetic…
Look Back in Anger (1989): Dir. Judi Dench
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Siobhan Redmond; TV production of John Osborne's influential play from the 50's, directed by Judi Dench. Kenneth Branagh plays the educated but disaffected "angry…
Discovering Hamlet (1990): Dir. Mark Olshaker
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart; Invaluable documenting of Derek Jacobi's 1988 production of Hamlet with a young Kenneth Branagh in the lead. Focussing solely on the rehearsal…
Dead Again (1991): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson; Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson go Stateside for this askewed whodunnit about a P.I. who is hired to help an amnesia victim, seemingly haunted by…
Peter's Friends (1992): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie…; British stiff–upper–lip spin on the BIG CHILL with Kenneth Brannagh and friends. They come across as something of a lacklustre lot,…
Much Ado About Nothing (1993): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves…; Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…; Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
Midwinter's Tale, A (In the Bleak Midwinter) (1995): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders…; Disasters mount for an unemployed actor whose last–ditch passport to glory is to stage a DIY version of Hamlet. Struggling thesps and…
Othello (1995): Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Irene Jacob, Laurence Fishburne; Shakespeare's great tragedy of love, jealousy and sheer bloody malice is spiked with a 90s erotic edge. While its stylistic choices only partly…
Hamlet (1997): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie…; A flash and vigorous reading of Shakespeare's tragedy of the melancholy Dane, hatched by Kenneth Branagh and a bevy of incongruous thesps. An…
Proposition, The (1998): Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, John Hurt, Madeleine Stowe; A less than saintly love–tryst involves man of the cloth, Kenneth Branagh, with rich, love–starved couple William Hurt and Madeleine…
Gingerbread Man, The (1998): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Duvall…; Script by the courtroom–obsessed John Grisham is here assigned to auteurist Robert Altman (THE PLAYER, SHORT CUTS), who manages to…
Theory of Flight, The (1998): Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh; Helena Bonham–Carter plays a misery–guts in a wheelchair, crippled by motor–neuron disorder, who gets a companion in the form of an…
Wild Wild West (1999): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh…; The star and director of MEN IN BLACK and recoupled for this Sci–fi–Western–spoof, first aired as a popular,…
Walking with Dinosaurs (TV Series) (1999): Dir. Tim Haines
Feat. Kenneth Branagh; In tracing the 160 million year history of the big lizards, this comprehensive BBC doco slavishly recreates the flora, fauna and geography of the age…
Love's Labour's Lost (1999): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Timothy Spall…; Untiring Shakespearean–enthusiast Kenneth Branagh, labours his latest adaptation: the Bard’s sparkling early comedy made over as a 30s Irving…
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog) (2000): Dir. Michael Kalesniko
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Jared Harris…; Kenneth Branagh brings a rumpled, harassed charm to his role as a playwright whose career is interrupted by 'writer's block', a condition exacerbated…
Conspiracy (2001): Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth; Presenting the planning of the Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’ of the jews as the matter of a simple business luncheon in 1942 of fifteen men, presided…
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002): Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese…; The second Harry Potter adaptation is better fun and more settled in its mingled tone of magic, fantasy and thriller. Daniel Radcliffe again plays…
Rabbit Proof Fence (2002): Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan…; Recounting a single true–story of Australia’s “Stolen Generation” – young Aboriginal half–castes forcibly taken from families…
Shackleton (2002): Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz; Channel 4’s mini–series version of polar–explorer Ernest Shackleton’s voyage to the South Pole in 1914. A brilliant adventure tale…
Five Children and It (2004): Dir. John Stephenson
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker…; A fond adaptation of the E. Nesbit novel in which a group of children are befriended by a disenchanted green 'sand fairy' called 'It' (voiced by…
Warm Springs (2005): Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer…; Typically smooth and competent HBO biopic, which dramatises Franklin D. Roosevelt's (Branagh) pre–presidency years, especially the period from…
As You Like It (2006): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina…; Kenneth Branagh transplants the Bard’s comedy to old Japan in this talent–stacked tale of woman's flight from persecution and into the arms…
Sleuth (2007): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Michael Caine, Jude Law; Sleek Harold Pinter–written remake of 1972 character–driven thriller ratchets up the menace, pitting cuckolded crime writer Michael Caine…

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Filmography (All Films)