T.R. Bowen

Writing

T.R. Bowen

Born 1942-01-01 · Rangoon, Burma

Acting credits

Run Fatboy Run poster
6.2

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

Run Fatboy Run

2007

Darling poster
6.8

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

Darling

1965

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side poster
7.4

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

1992

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery poster
6.6

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

1989

Greenfingers poster
6.3

Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts the attention of flamboyant gardening expert Georgina Woodhouse, she offers to sponsor the inmates in an upcoming flower show. At the Hampton Court Flower Show, Colin meets Georgina's daughter and romance is in bloom.

Greenfingers

2001

I Hired a Contract Killer poster
6.9

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

I Hired a Contract Killer

1990

Murphy's Stroke poster
5.8

The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.

Murphy's Stroke

1980

Edward & Mrs. Simpson poster
10.0

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978

The Beggar Bride poster
8.2

How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...

The Beggar Bride

1997

I Was Happy Here poster
6.4

Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.

I Was Happy Here

1966

Way Off Beat poster
7.0

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

Way Off Beat

1966

Frankie and Johnnie poster
9.0

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

Frankie and Johnnie

1986

No artwork available
NR

Sometimes Busi is a champion boxer, sometimes a rock star. But when he escapes from court, where he is facing a charge of assault, he embarks on an odyssey that brings him before his estranged father

Not Even God Is Wise Enough

1993

Young Shoulders poster
7.0

John Wain adapts his own novel, about a young man who accompanies his feuding parents to Portugal for the memorial service of his sister, who died in a plane crash with her entire class.

Young Shoulders

1984

Knockback: 1 poster
7.5

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

Knockback: 1

1985

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

Rumpole's Return poster
5.8

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Rumpole's Return

1980

Behind the camera

The Hound of the Baskervilles poster
7.3

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1988

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side poster
7.4

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

1992

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery poster
6.6

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

1989

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage poster
6.6

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1986

Hornblower: Mutiny poster
7.4

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.

Hornblower: Mutiny

2001

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington poster
7.5

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

1987

Milner poster
8.0

Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.

Milner

1994

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors poster
6.9

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991

The Eligible Bachelor poster
6.7

Sherlock Holmes' problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.

The Eligible Bachelor

1993

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill poster
7.3

Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

1985

The Cater Street Hangman poster
4.8

With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.

The Cater Street Hangman

1998

The Most Dangerous Man in the World poster
NR

In May 1981 a young Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca, shot Pope John Paul U. Who was Agca? Why did he do it? What made him want to be a killer?

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

1988