Michael Sarne

Acting

Michael Sarne

Born

1939-08-06 (87)

Place of birth

Paddington, London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Michael Sarne (born Michael Scheuer; 6 August 1940) is a British actor, writer, producer, and director, who also had a brief career as a pop singer in the 1960s. Sarne directed the films Joanna (1968) and Myra Breckinridge (1970). He has appeared as an actor in several films including A Place to Go (1965), Two Weeks in September (1967), and Moonlighting (1982).

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Les Misérables poster
7.3

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

2012

The World's End poster
6.8

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

The World's End

2013

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy poster
6.6

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

Gloves Off poster
4.9

A talented fighter must save his beloved gym by training a gentle giant for a bare-knuckle fight.

Gloves Off

2017

The Piano Room poster
5.0

A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.

The Piano Room

2013

Sweets poster
5.2

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.

Sweets

2013

DJ poster
7.2

The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What happens when music is more important than relationships? Who we become without love? Is having talent enough to climb to the top?

DJ

2018

2000s · 5 titles

Eastern Promises poster
7.3

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Eastern Promises

2007

The Fourth Angel poster
5.3

Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.

The Fourth Angel

2001

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story poster
5.6

Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

2008

Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box poster
10.0

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box

2001

Forgiveness poster
4.7

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.

Forgiveness

2006

1980s · 8 titles

Appointment with Death poster
6.1

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Appointment with Death

1988

Moonlighting poster
7.1

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Moonlighting

1982

Hands Up! poster
5.7

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Hands Up!

1985

Success Is the Best Revenge poster
6.5

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984

Cult People poster
7.0

In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.

Cult People

1989

Thieves in the Night poster
7.0

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." Experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.

Thieves in the Night

1989

Riding the Edge poster
6.0

Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle.

Riding the Edge

1989

Blat poster
NR

'My word is my bond. And I thought only schmucks do business like that.' Gino, a Russian gangster, is playing for higher stakes than most when he invests in the British stock exchange. Any drop in share prices could put his life in immediate danger.

Blat

1987

1960s · 9 titles

The Guns of Navarone poster
7.3

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Guns of Navarone

1961

Sink the Bismarck! poster
6.9

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.

Sink the Bismarck!

1960

Two Weeks in September poster
5.0

Cecile is a young and beautiful Frenchwoman married to a much older Englishman. She loves her husband and seems content with her life, until she meets a younger man and feels forgotten passions stirring within. She now finds herself confronted with a choice: stay with the steady and peaceful love of her husband, or run off for excitement and adventure with a new love?

Two Weeks in September

1967

On the Fiddle poster
5.7

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

On the Fiddle

1961

Every Day's a Holiday poster
7.0

A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show

Every Day's a Holiday

1965

No Kidding poster
6.1

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.

No Kidding

1960

A Place to Go poster
6.4

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.

A Place to Go

1963

Moment of Decision poster
NR

A woman yearning for a child takes a baby from a wealthy family.Her husband sees this as a financial opportunity.

Moment of Decision

1963

Trouble with Eve poster
6.0

What happens when an attractive girl from Paris arrives in a sleepy riverside village.

Trouble with Eve

1960

Series credits

Minder poster
7.2

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Minder

1979

Jonathan Creek poster
7.6

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

Jonathan Creek

1997

Howards' Way poster
5.9

The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.

Howards' Way

1985

War and Remembrance poster
7.9

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.

War and Remembrance

1988

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again poster
7.0

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again was a 1989 TV mini-series based on the Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. It starred Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, Hugh Grant and Courteney Cox.

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again

1989

The Scales of Justice poster
6.7

The Scales of Justice is a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine were made in black and white, and the last four in colour. The finale, Payment in Kind, was Merton Park's final production. Episodes were based on criminal cases, and each film was introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. The opening narration describes her as having "in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice".

The Scales of Justice

1962

Behind the camera

Myra Breckinridge poster
4.6

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

Myra Breckinridge

1970

Myra Breckinridge poster
4.6

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

Myra Breckinridge

1970

Joanna poster
5.4

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

Joanna

1968

Joanna poster
5.4

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

Joanna

1968

Road to St. Tropez poster
4.9

A woman has a brief amorous liaison while on a trip along the South of France to Saint Tropez, but returns disillusioned.

Road to St. Tropez

1966

Road to St. Tropez poster
4.9

A woman has a brief amorous liaison while on a trip along the South of France to Saint Tropez, but returns disillusioned.

Road to St. Tropez

1966

Road to St. Tropez poster
4.9

A woman has a brief amorous liaison while on a trip along the South of France to Saint Tropez, but returns disillusioned.

Road to St. Tropez

1966

Intimacy poster
4.5

Guia de Filmes indicates: "melodrama addressing the massification of large urban centers and the contradictions of consumer society and advertising. It is the first independent production by the firm of Vera Fischer and Perry Sales, and also, the first film directed by Englishman Michael Sarne in Brazil; however, he retired before completion and the film was finished by Perry Salles, marking his directorial debut ".

Intimacy

1976

Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback poster
7.5

A comprehensive re-edit of the source footage shot in 1993 for the original 1995 film, charting three days at the Glastonbury music festival.

Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

1995

Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback poster
7.5

A comprehensive re-edit of the source footage shot in 1993 for the original 1995 film, charting three days at the Glastonbury music festival.

Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

1995

The Punk poster
10.0

David, a London street kid falls in love with little rich girl Rachel, but their romance is frowned upon by their parents and peers. When David kills a man in self-defence, he goes on the run from his policeman father, while Rachel tries to find him first.

The Punk

1993