Christopher Morahan

Directing

Christopher Morahan

Born — Died

1929-07-09 — 2017-04-07

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Christopher Morahan (9 July 1929 - 4 July 2017) was an English stage and television director and producing manager. Initially an actor, Morahan was subsequently a television director from 1957, starting with the long-running ITV series Emergency Ward 10. From 1972 to 1976 he was Head of Plays for BBC Television, responsible for productions including Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes (1976); Just Another Saturday, which won the Italia Prize; and 84 Charing Cross Road (1975). Morahan joined the National Theatre in 1977 as Deputy Director and was appointed Co-Director of the Olivier Theatre. His first stage production was Jules Feiffer's Little…

Known for

Clockwise poster
6.2

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

Clockwise

1986

Paper Mask poster
5.6

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Paper Mask

1990

Diamonds for Breakfast poster
6.2

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.

Diamonds for Breakfast

1968

Can You Hear Me Thinking? poster
8.5

Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the parents of teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

1990

All Neat in Black Stockings poster
4.0

A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.

All Neat in Black Stockings

1969

Element of Doubt poster
6.5

A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.

Element of Doubt

1996

Film credits

Behind the camera

Clockwise poster
6.2

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

Clockwise

1986

Paper Mask poster
5.6

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Paper Mask

1990

Paper Mask poster
5.6

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Paper Mask

1990

Diamonds for Breakfast poster
6.2

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.

Diamonds for Breakfast

1968

Can You Hear Me Thinking? poster
8.5

Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the parents of teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

1990

All Neat in Black Stockings poster
4.0

A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.

All Neat in Black Stockings

1969

Element of Doubt poster
6.5

A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.

Element of Doubt

1996

No artwork available
7.0

In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole, investigate.

The Road

1963

No artwork available
6.0

Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.

Bedroom Farce

1980

The Heat of the Day poster
8.0

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.

The Heat of the Day

1989

Pygmalion poster
10.0

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

1973

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NR

A British comedy/drama. Directed by Christopher Morahan, this script focuses on the biting, humorous workplace banter between actors Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas Le Prevost

HR

2007

Old Flames poster
NR

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and sad. This reluctant pair are caught up in an alliance againstu an ingenious conspiracy which threatens both of their lives.

Old Flames

1990

The World of George Orwell: 1984 poster
7.0

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

The World of George Orwell: 1984

1965

Lay Down Your Arms poster
7.5

Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.

Lay Down Your Arms

1970

Common Pursuit poster
NR

Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called The Common Pursuit.

Common Pursuit

1992

Hearts and Flowers poster
6.5

A family gather together for the funeral and cremation of the head of the family.

Hearts and Flowers

1970

In the Secret State poster
7.0

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.

In the Secret State

1985

The Peacock Spring poster
7.3

Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.

The Peacock Spring

1996

The Bullion Boys poster
NR

Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.

The Bullion Boys

1993

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NR

A successful advertising copywriter suddenly decides to show his contempt for money by living by his writings alone. His friends and former colleagues are not convinced that this is for the best.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1965

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NR

Bob believes he has won a fortune on the lottery but has misplaced his ticket. He tries to keep his supposed good fortune a secret from his family and friends.

It Might Be You

1995

The Dwarfs poster
4.7

A young actor and an angst-ridden city worker fight over a girl watched over by a disturbed chum. The play is concerned with three young men, Len, Pete and Mark, and the scene of action shifts back and forth between Len's house and Mark's. Sometimes all three come together, sometimes only two, and often Len is on stage alone. There are conversations and soliloquies filled with the brilliant convolutions of thought, the sudden flashes of truth which distinguish Pinter's unique style, with the mood ranging from calm introspection to explosive outpouring. Much of what is said hints at deeper thoughts left unspoken, and the sense of horror and alienation which often emerges is a searing indictment of our life and times. We meet, we talk, we tear at each other, but our insularity is seldom penetrated. We are together but alone, as though life were a mirror which reflects only our own image.

The Dwarfs

2002

Unnatural Pursuits poster
NR

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

Unnatural Pursuits

1992

No artwork available
NR

Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.

A Summer Day's Dream

1994

After Pilkington poster
7.4

The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.

After Pilkington

1987

The Bankrupt poster
8.0

Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.

The Bankrupt

1972

Monologue poster
7.0

A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won.

Monologue

1973

A Night Out poster
NR

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

A Night Out

1967

Fable poster
7.0

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

Fable

1965

A Slight Ache poster
10.0

In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comfortably disputing as to whether the honeysuckle or convolvulus is in flower, and joining forces to drown a wasp in the marmalade jar. When a stranger appears at the garden gate his presence both disturbs and fascinates them.

A Slight Ache

1967

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8.0

Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.

Uncle Vanya

1970

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8.0

The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.

Platonov

1971

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7.0

The story begins with the death of a cat. For Mrs Everton, the owner, it climaxes four months of terror during which she has been paying two young brothers £1 a week to keep them from carrying out their threats against her two cats.Although Mrs Everton is aware that the two boys aren't responsible for the cat's death, she nevertheless sets out to wreak revenge.

A Game, Like, Only a Game

1966

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NR

An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name.

A Month in the Country

1966

Old Times poster
5.0

Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and talk of the past. Although it is a past they have shared, their memories of it are not always the same.

Old Times

1975

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NR

Eames is a middle aged man, with a boring, routine job. His life changes when he meets a young girl and a painter. This rekindles his youthful artistic leanings, which he blames his father for stopping.

You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It

1969

The Gorge poster
8.0

A reluctant teenager accompanies his family on a day out to a local beauty spot.

The Gorge

1968