Directing

Robert Knights

Born

1942-08-19 (84)

Place of birth

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Lady of the Camellias poster
9.0

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.

The Lady of the Camellias

1976

The Chemist poster
NR

Vernon Duxley, a Yorkshire chemist, confesses the traumatic, intimate secrets of his marital life to his video camera.

The Chemist

1990

Mona poster
NR

A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.

Mona

1982

Only Make Believe poster
10.0

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.

Only Make Believe

1973

The Dawning poster
5.9

An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.

The Dawning

1988

The Ebony Tower poster
NR

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship.

The Ebony Tower

1984

Black Velvet Band poster
7.7

Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.

Black Velvet Band

1997

The Saliva Milkshake poster
8.0

Howard Brenton's play, written for television, examines terrorism and the state's complex relationship with it and language surrounding it.

The Saliva Milkshake

1975

The Voysey Inheritance poster
NR

Young Edward discovers that the family business he is due to inherit has been defrauding clients for decades.

The Voysey Inheritance

2014

Love on a Gunboat poster
NR

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

Love on a Gunboat

1977

The Out of Town Boys poster
NR

A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

The Out of Town Boys

1979

Double Vision poster
5.1

A beautiful medical student travels to London to investigate the mysterious murder of her identical twin sister. Taking on her sister's identity, she gets closer and closer to the killer who is determined to finish the job once and for all.

Double Vision

1992

And a Nightingale Sang poster
5.2

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

And a Nightingale Sang

1989

The Enigma poster
NR

When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jennings, left to pursue the investigation, finds little humour or help amongst Fielding's friends or family. Only Isobel could believe that Fielding might have wanted to disappear.

The Enigma

1980

Catchpenny Twist poster
NR

Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And why has someone sent them two bullets through the post?

Catchpenny Twist

1977

The After Dinner Game poster
7.5

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

The After Dinner Game

1975

Miss A and Miss M poster
NR

Young Lizzie Cole and her newly widowed mother go to stay in the country at a small guesthouse occupied by spinsters, retired schoolmasters and young schoolmistresses. Lizzie becomes quite fond of two particular schoolmistresses who live together in a small cottage. Their lifestyle and living arrangement is a constant source of interest and challenge for Lizzie. However, what she ends up experiencing is beyond the comprehension of a young girl. The story of Miss A And Miss M is a very sensitively performed portrayal of the boundaries of love and friendship.

Miss A and Miss M

1983

A Dedicated Man poster
10.0

Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes distraught when she learns that Maurice has been offered a more prestigious job at a luxury hotel. Maurice explains to Edith that he can only take the position if he is married. Unaware Edith's crush, Maurice proposes. She accepts and they set up a household for business purposes only -- complete with a photograph of a make-believe son. As Edith continues to live with this charade, her obsession with Maurice and the "son" grows, leading to a shocking and disturbing outcome!

A Dedicated Man

1982

No artwork available
NR

Four former inmates of a hospital for the mentally handicapped, move in next door to a middle aged couple in suburbia.

Why Here?

1977

The Emergency Channel poster
NR

Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no memory?

The Emergency Channel

1973

Over poster
NR

A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.

Over

1973

Lovers of Their Time poster
NR

A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.

Lovers of Their Time

1982

No artwork available
NR

Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying guest. At first wary of him, Esme becomes increasingly fond of this dapper little man with his mysterious summer occupation. When she finally learns the nature of this occupation she is at first shocked then sympathetic.

A Bit of Singing and Dancing

1982