David Hargreaves

Acting

David Hargreaves

Born 1940-02-02 · New Mills, Derbyshire, England, UK

Acting credits

Last Christmas poster
7.2

Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.

Last Christmas

2019

Your Christmas or Mine? poster
6.4

Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022

Agatha poster
6.1

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Agatha

1979

No artwork available
NR

Keef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by a confrontational punk girl who has seen something extraordinary on the beach.

Kingdom Come

1990

1914 All Out poster
7.5

A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".

1914 All Out

1987

Much Ado About Nothing poster
6.3

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.

Much Ado About Nothing

1967

Rhubarb Rhubarb poster
NR

In Yorkshire's legendary “rhubarb triangle”, Jo and her aging father cultivate the delicate pink herbaceous plant for which the region was famous a century ago. They harvest by candlelight, like their ancestors before them, and nothing could prepare them for the imminent threat looming in the darkness.

Rhubarb Rhubarb

2025

Othello poster
6.4

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Othello

1965

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
7.0

Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2012

The Wars of the Roses poster
8.7

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Wars of the Roses

1965

She's Been Away poster
5.7

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband.

She's Been Away

1989

The Intercessor poster
NR

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...

The Intercessor

1983

Doran's Box poster
NR

A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.

Doran's Box

1976

No Further Cause for Concern poster
NR

Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.

No Further Cause for Concern

1988

Us & In Between poster
NR

Two long-lost lovers in their 80s, Agnes and Eddie, reignite their flame against all odds with hilarious and touching consequences.

Us & In Between

2023

A Dog's Ransom poster
9.0

A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. A smart young copper from the local force decides to investigate -

A Dog's Ransom

1978

Minor Complications poster
NR

Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation.

Minor Complications

1980

No artwork available
NR

An atmospheric new jazz film capturing the frustration of a talented young Scottish trumpeter. Paul is playing another lousy gig in Dundee when a sudden confrontation brings his dreams of escape within his grasp.

Conversion of St Paul

1990

Stronger Than the Sun poster
NR

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.

Stronger Than the Sun

1978

The Passion poster
NR

During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance.

The Passion

1999

No artwork available
NR

Young housewife Alison tries to care for both her husband, who became brain-damaged after a motorbike accident, and their young child. Her husband's mother and best friend make things even more difficult.

Some Kind of Life

1995

Deadly Obsession poster
NR

A dramatization of a murder resulting in the conviction of businesswoman Kathleen Calhaem, involving unrequited love, jealousy, and blackmail.

Deadly Obsession

1992

Post Mortem poster
NR

With her boss unexpectedly absent. Helen, his secretary takes charge.

Post Mortem

1975

Thatcher: The Final Days poster
6.7

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.

Thatcher: The Final Days

1991

Behind the camera