Claire Bloom
Know for: Acting
Born: 1931-02-15
Place of birth: Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK
Also know as:
The Man Between (1953)
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
Clash of the Titans (1981)
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed (1994)
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
The Buccaneer (1958)
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will...
Fiona's Story (2008)
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother...
The Haunting (1963)
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death...
The Illustrated Man (1969)
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo...
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final...
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write...
Charly (1968)
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to...
Limelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
A Doll's House (1973)
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...
The Princess and the Goblin (1991)
The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with...
Alexander the Great (1956)
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...
Richard III (1955)
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...
A Severed Head (1971)
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While...
The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all...
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom (2006)
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at...
The Chatterley Affair (2006)
The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed...
Yesterday's Children (2000)
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious,...
A Village Affair (1995)
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Florence Nightingale (1985)
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession...
Look Back in Anger (1959)
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Islands in the Stream (1977)
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced,...
The Outrage (1964)
At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan...
Daniel and the Superdogs (2004)
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog...
The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But...
On Cukor (2000)
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and...
Separate Tables (1983)
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician...
Brainwashed (1960)
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental...
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
The Chapman Report (1962)
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Ghost Writer (1983)
Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while...
Déjà Vu (1985)
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated also believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous life, a...
Max Rose (2016)
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Kalamazoo? (2006)
The story of three girlfriends who go back to Kalamazoo, Michigan for their 10 year high school reunion. There, they discover that a time capsule...
3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969)
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get...
Liberty (1986)
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
It's Nothing Personal (1993)
An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
The Blind Goddess (1948)
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...
Wrestling with Alligators (1998)
All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simplest things are difficult to find...Maddy, a...
Shadowlands (1985)
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Wuthering Heights (1962)
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
80,000 Suspects (1963)
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Time and the Conways (1985)
1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to...
Anna Karenina (1961)
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in...
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century (2014)
A new TV documentary on Chaplin that celebrates a 100 years of the iconic Tramp, presented by Laurent Delahousse.
Chaplin Today: 'Limelight' (2003)
A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."
The King's Speech (2010)
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George...
Remember (1993)
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
Gorgeous Antonia is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike, a tough drifter who helps her score more...
Daylight (1996)
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular...
2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom (2005)
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at...
The Going Up of David Lev (1973)
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips...
Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom (1999)
Claire Bloom has performed leading and important supporting roles in numerous plays by William Shakespeare, starting while she was still in her...
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone...
Imagining Argentina (2003)
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and...
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker...
Soldier in Love (1967)
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
Hamlet (1980)
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch....
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New...
Imogen's Face (1998)
The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast (1989)
"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Though the Beast is kind, and...
Tattooed Steiger (1969)
A behind-the-scenes look on the making of the movie "The Illustrated Man" featuring scenes from the movie and the design and application process of...
The Lady in Question (1999)
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone...
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
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...
The Life and Death of King John (1984)
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and...
Tales from the Madhouse (2000)
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera....
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 (2012)
In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is...
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life (1998)
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to...
Promises to Keep (1985)
An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.
Love and Murder (2000)
While keeping her family together in the wake of her husband's murder, Joanne gets drawn into another murder investigation when a friend, artist...
Miss Dalí (2018)
Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy the great progressive atmosphere of...
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
Ann and Debbie (1986)
Two friends, Ann and Debbie, meet for drinks to discuss marriage difficulties.
The Book of Eve (2002)
A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart.
High Infidelity (1964)
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
Henry VIII (1979)
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the...
Cymbeline (1982)
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who...
House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague (2008)
A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Chaplin vs the FBI (2019)
How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or communist supporter.
And While We Were Here (2012)
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
Tonight in Britain (1954)
A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford and in London.