Directing

Alan Cooke

Born — Died

1926-03-29 — 1994-10-09

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Peer Gynt poster
9.0

The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.

Peer Gynt

1972

The Mind of Mr. Soames poster
5.5

A 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

Nadia poster
6.7

Story 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

Death of a Salesman poster
NR

Willy 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

The Starfish poster
5.0

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.

The Starfish

1952

The Starfish poster
5.0

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.

The Starfish

1952

Renoir, My Father poster
NR

A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.

Renoir, My Father

1978

Andover and the Android poster
NR

Roger 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

Paint Me a Murder poster
8.5

Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.

Paint Me a Murder

1984

Romeo and Juliet poster
NR

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Romeo and Juliet

1967

Hell's Angel poster
7.0

Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.

Hell's Angel

1971

The Right Prospectus poster
7.0

A school story with a noticeable difference – the adults regress to children.

The Right Prospectus

1970

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

Tunnel Under the World poster
8.0

Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details are always different. Is it conceivable that he is merely a simulacrum, the ultimate in consumer market surveying?

Tunnel Under the World

1966

Flat Two poster
NR

A 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

The Tragedy of King Lear poster
8.0

King 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

Separate Tables poster
9.0

A 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

Dalhousie's Luck poster
NR

Our 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

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime poster
10.0

Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

1960

The Hunchback of Notre Dame poster
6.2

TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1976

No artwork available
NR

On the Edinburgh to London night train, two strangers meet in an otherwise empty carriage. They start to reveal some shocking facts about themselves and a tale of espionage develops, as both men are not what they first seem to be, which turns the journey into a nightmare for one of them.

The End of the Line

1970

Pygmalion poster
8.7

When 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

Triple Exposure poster
NR

Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the three perspectives.

Triple Exposure

1972

Armen and Bullik poster
10.0

Lieutenant 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

No artwork available
NR

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.

The Fishing Match

1962

No artwork available
NR

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

1961

No artwork available
NR

Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business.

The Thought of Tomorrow

1959

Black Legend poster
NR

A 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

Black Legend poster
NR

A 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

Black Legend poster
NR

A 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

Jumping Bean Bag poster
8.0

At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.

Jumping Bean Bag

1976

Danger! Men Working poster
NR

In 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

Uncle Silas poster
7.0

After 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

Exiles poster
9.0

In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why this was.

Exiles

1977

The Chocolate Tree poster
NR

As 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

Ashes to Ashes poster
7.0

Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

Ashes to Ashes

1965

House of Character poster
10.0

Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising agency, etc. Finally, it's revealed that the new flat is, in fact, a room in a psychiatric asylum.

House of Character

1968