Directing
Alan Cooke
Born 1926-03-29 · London, England, UK
Alan Cooke was born on March 29, 1926 in London, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Matinee Theatre (1955), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) and Out of This World (1962). He died on October 9, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Acting credits
6.2Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Death Wish 3
1985
5.9A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Young Adam
2003
6.6Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
I.D.
1995
NRA dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy Newman on 23 February 1676.
Black Legend
1949
Behind the camera
5.5A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an adult, the man is "reborn" in the eye of an infant; the doctors caring for him must teach him to walk, talk and prepare for life in the outside world. Tension builds as he escapes from the hospital, wanders among people who do not realize his identity, and is hunted by the police.
The Mind of Mr. Soames
1970
9.0A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Separate Tables
1970
6.7Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10's in the Montreal Olympics.
Nadia
1984
6.3Dame 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
NRRoger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android as your wife: surely that will satisfy everyone? Andover finds more than he bargained for when his robot bride challenges his preconceptions about humanity.
Andover and the Android
1965
NROur gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
9.0The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.
Peer Gynt
1972
NRBBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
Romeo and Juliet
1967
6.2TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1976
NRWilly Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Death of a Salesman
1966
NRA victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been murdered before they got there. The police soon arrive, tipped off in advance.
Flat Two
1962
7.0After her father's death, Maud, a young heiress, is sent to live with her Uncle Silas. She finds her new guardian living in a gothic nightmare of a mansion, and soon realizes that he wishes to murder her and claim her inheritance.
Uncle Silas
1968
8.7When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Pygmalion
1983
7.0A school story with a noticeable difference – the adults regress to children.
The Right Prospectus
1970
NRIn Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
Danger! Men Working
1961
5.0Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.
The Starfish
1952
5.0Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.
The Starfish
1952
NRAs independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.
The Chocolate Tree
1963
8.0King Lear, old and weary, divides his kingdom among his daughters, placing great weight on their declarations of love for him. However, when Cordelia, the youngest and most honest, refuses to flatter the old man in exchange for his favour, he banishes her and seeks support from his remaining daughters. Goneril and Regan, however, harbour no love for him and instead conspire to seize all his power. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favours his illegitimate son Edmund after being deceived by lies about his faithful son Edgar. Tragically, both ill-fated fathers are consumed by madness and experience immense suffering.
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
7.0Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.
Hell's Angel
1971
NRA dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy Newman on 23 February 1676.
Black Legend
1949
NRA dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy Newman on 23 February 1676.
Black Legend
1949
NRA dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy Newman on 23 February 1676.
Black Legend
1949
10.0Lieutenant Joe Armen is a devoted cop who loves his job. Tom Bullik is his Young partner. While on the run from hired killers who want to stop them from testifying against a mafia boss, Joe and Tom witness the kidnapping of Marion.
Armen and Bullik
1993