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Filmography

The following films are those which Mike Hodges wrote and/or directed.

Suspect (UK, 1969, 80m, TV film)

Production Company: Thames

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Mike Hodges

Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley

Screenplay: Mike Hodges

Camera: Michael Rhodes

Sound: Basil Rootes

Film Editor: Mike Taylor

Dubbing Mixer: Mike Billings

Production Designer: Patrick Downing

Music: Norman Kay

Cast: Rachel Kempson (Phyllis Segal), Bryan Marshall (Mark Segal), George Sewell (DI Barnes), Michael Coles (DS Jagger), Jean Alexandrov (Jean Segal), Roger Rowland, Russell Hunter, Dorothy White, Christopher Banks

Rumour (UK, 1970, 80m, TV film)

Production Company: Thames

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Mike Hodges

Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley

Screenplay: Mike Hodges

Camera: Dusty Miller

Script Editor: George Markstein

Sound: Basil Rootes

Film Editor: Peter Lee-Thompson

Production Designer: Patrick Downing

Music: Moody Blues

Cast: Michael Coles (Sam Hunter), Ronald Clarke (The Assassin), with Mary Baxter, Joyce Blair, Kevin Brennan, John Caeser, David Cargill, Martin Carroll

Get Carter (UK, 1971, 112m)

Production Company: MGM / Released by MGM-EMI Distributors Ltd

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Michael Klinger

Screenplay: Mike Hodges

Photography: Wolfgang Suschitsky

Editor: John Trumper

Music: Roy Budd

Art Director: Roger King

Production Designer: Assheton Gorton

Cast: Michael Caine (Jack Carter), Ian Hendry (Eric Paice), Britt Ekland (Anna Fletcher), John Osborne (Cyril Kinnear), Tony Beckley (Peter), George Sewell (Con McCarty), Geraldine Moffat (Glenda), Dorothy White (Margaret), Rosemarie Dunham (Edna), Petra Markham (Doreen), Alun Armstrong (Keith), Bryan Mosley (Cliff Brumby), Glynn Edwards (Albert Swift), Bernhard Hepton (Thorpe), Terence Rigby (Gerald Fletcher)

Pulp (UK, 1972, 95m)

Production Company: United Artists

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Michael Klinger

Screenplay: Mike Hodges

Photography: Ousama Rawi

Editor: John Glenn

Music: George Martin

Art Director: Darrell Lass

Production Designer: Patrick Downing

Cast: Michael Caine (Mickey King), Mickey Rooney (Preston Gilbert), Lionel Stander (Ben Dinuccio), Lizabeth Scott (Princess Betty Cippola), Nadia Cassini (Liz Adams), Dennis Price (Mysterious Englishman), Al Lettieri (Miller), Leopoldo Trieste (Marcovic), Amerigo Tot (Partisan), Robert Sacchi (Jim Norman), Giulio Donnin (Typing Pool Manager), Joe Zammit Cordina (Santana), Luciano Pigozzi (Del Duce), Maria Quasimodo (Senora Pavone)

The Terminal Man (US, 1974, 103m)

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Mike Hodges

Screenplay: Mike Hodges (based on Michael Crichton’s novel)

Photography: Richard H Kline

Editor: Robert L Wolfe

Music: “Goldberg Variation No. 25” by J S Bach, performed by Glenn Gould

Art Director: Fred Harpman

Cast: George Segal (Harry Benson), Joan Hackett (Dr Janet Ross), Richard A Dysart (Dr John Ellis), Donald Moffat (Dr Arthur McPherson), Michael C Gwynne (Dr Robert Morris), William Hansen (Dr Ezra Manon), Jill Clayburgh (Angela Black), Norman Burton (Det. Capt. Anders), James Sikking (Ralph Friedman), Matt Clarke (Gerhard), Jim Antonio (Richards), Gene Borkan (Benson’s Guard), Dee Carroll (Night Nurse)

Damien: Omen II (US, 1978, 109m)

(Hodges left as Director after three weeks’ shooting. Replaced by Don Tayler. Hodges did, however, receive credit for the screenplay)

Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox

Director: Don Taylor

Producer: Harvey Bernhard, Charles Orme

Screenplay: Mike Hodges, Stanley Mann

Photography: Bill Butler

Editor: Robert Brown

Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Art Director: Philip M Jefferies

Cast: William Holden (Richard Thorn), Lee Grant (Ann Thorn), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (Damien Thorn), Robert Foxworth (Paul Buher), Nicholas Pryor (Charles Warren), Lew Ayres (Bill Atherton), Silvia Sidney (Aunt Marion), Lance Henrikson (Sergeant Neff), Elizabeth Shepherd (Joan Hart), Lucas Donat (Mark Thorn), Allan Arbus (Pasarian)

Flash Gordon (UK, 1980, 110m)

Production Company: Universal/De Laurentiis

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Dino De Laurentiis

Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple Jr

Photography: Gil Taylor

Editor: Malcolm Cooke

Music: Howard Blake, Queen

Art Director: Danilo Donati

Cast: Sam J Jones (Flash Gordon), Melody Anderson (Dale Arden), Max von Sydow (The Emperor Ming), Topol (Doctor Hans Zarkov), Ornella Muti (Princess Aura), Timothy Dalton (Prince Barin), Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan), Peter Wyngarde (Klytus), Mariangela Melato (Kala), John Osborne (Arborian Priest), Richard O’Brien (Fico), John Hallam (Luro), Philip Stone (Zogi, the High Priest), Suzanne Danielle (Serving Girl), William Hootkins (Munson)

Missing Pieces (US, 1983, 96m)

Production Company: CBS

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Doug Chapin

Screenplay: Mike Hodges (based on Karl Alexander’s novel)

Photography: Charles Correll

Editor: Jim Oliver

Art Director: Fred Harpman

Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery (Sara Scott), Ron Karabatsos (Claude Papazian), John Reilly (Sam), Louanne (Valerie Scott), Robin Gammell (Senator Lawrence Conrad), Julius Harris (Spencer Harris), David Haskell (Andy), Daniel Pilon (Jorge Martinez), Virginia Paris (Anna Perez), Leslie Ackerman (Judith Rosenus), Martin Azarow (Hector Bolinas), David Byrd (Motel Manager), Burke Byrnes (2nd Man Hood), Daniel Currie (Doctor), Lou Cutell (Man)

And the Ship Sails On (France/Italy, 1983, 132m)

(Hodges dubbed the English version of this Fellini film)

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Franco Cristaldi

Screenplay: Catherine Breillat, Roberto De Leonardis (Italian dialogue adaptation), Federico Fellini, Tonini Guerra

Photography: Giuseppi

Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

Art Director: Maria-Teresa Barbasso

Music: Gianfranco Plenizio

Cast: Freddie Jones (Orlando), Barbara Jefford (Ildebranda Cuffari), Victor Poletti (Aureliano Fuciletto), Peter Cellier (Sir Reginald J Dongby), Elisa Mainardi (Teresa Valegnani), Norma West (Lady Violet Dongby Albertini), Paolo Paoloni (Il Maestro Albertini), Sarah-Jane Varley (Dorotea), Fiorenzo Serra (Il Granduca), Pina Bausch (La Principessa Lherimia), Pasquale Zito (Il Conte di Bassano), Linda Polan (Ines Ruffo Saltini), Philip Locke (Il Primo Ministro), Jonathan Cecil (Ricotin), Maurice Barrier (Ziloev)

Squaring the Circle (UK/US, 1984, 120m)

Production Company: TVS/Metromedia Producers

Corporation/Britannic Film and Television

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Frederick Brogger

Screenplay: Tom Stoppard

Photography: Michael Garfath

Editors: John Bloom, Eric Boyd-Perkins

Production Designer: Voytek

Cast: Richard Crenna (Narrator), Bernard Hill (Lech Walesa), Alec McCowen (Rakowski), Roy Kinnear (Kania), John Woodvine (Geirek), Richard Kane (Jaruzelski), Don Henderson (Kuron), Frank Middlemass (Brezhnev), John Bluthal (Babiuch)

Morons from Outer Space (UK, 1985, 97m)

Production Company: Thorn EMI, distributed by Columbia-EMI-Warner

Director: Mike Hodges

Producers: Barry Hanson, Verity Lambert

Screenplay: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, developed by Bob Mercer

Photography: Phil Meheux

Editor: Peter Boyle

Music: Peter Brewis

Art Director: Terry Gough, Bert Davey

Production Designer: Brian Eatwell

Cast: Mel Smith (Bernard), Griff Rhys Jones (Graham Sweetley), James Sikking (Colonel Laribee), Dinsdale Landen (Commander Matteson), Jimmy Nail (Desmond Brock), Joanne Pearce (Sandra Brock), Paul Bown (Julian Tope), Sean Barry-Weske (Doomsday Man), Edward Arthur (Television Interviewer – UK), Tim Barker (Mathematician), Joss Buckley (TV presenter), Richenda Carey (Countess Gretel), John Clamp (Bobby), Susan Denaker (Nurse 1), Robin Driscoll (Space Pilot), Graham Fellows (Cipher)

Florida Straits (US, 1986, 97m)

Production Company: HBO Pictures/Robert Cooper Films

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Stuart B Rekant

Screenplay: Roderick Taylor

Photography: Dennis C Lewiston

Editor: Edward M Abroms

Music: Michel Colombier

Art Director: Mack Pittman

Production Designer: Voytek

Cast: Raul Julia (Carlos Jayne), Fred Ward (Lucky Boone), Daniel Jenkins (Mac), Jaime Sanchez (Innocente), Victor Argo (Pablo), Ilka Tanya Payan (Carmen), Antonio Fargas (El Gato Negro), Jesse Corti (Guido), Raul Davila (Esteban), Simon Frederick (Beer Handler), Ed Grady (Lenny), Olivia Griego (Carmen’s Daughter), Mario R Griego (Patrol Boat Captain), Dani Gulledge (Danny’s Girlfriend), Cedric Guthrie (Danny)

A Prayer for the Dying (US, 1987, 105m)

Production Company: HBO Pictures/Robert Cooper Films

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Peter Snell, Sam Goldwyn Jr

Screenplay: Edmund Ward (based on Jack Higgins’s novel)

Photography: Mike Garfath

Editor: Peter Boyle

Music: Bill Conti

Art Director: Martyn Herbert

Production Designer: Evan Hercules

Cast: Mickey Rourke (Martin Fallon), Bob Hoskins (Father Da Costa), Alan Bates (Jack Meehan), Sammi Davis (Anna), Christopher Fulford (Billy), Liam Neeson (Liam Docherty), Leonard Termo (Bonati), Camille Coduri (Jenny), Maurice O’Connell (Miller), Alison Doody (Siobhan Donovan), Karl Johnson (Fitzgerald), Ian Bartholomew (Kristou), Peggy Aitchison (Mrs Orton), Cliff Burnett (Varley), Anthony Head (Rupert)

Black Rainbow (UK, 1990, 95m)

Production Company: Goldcrest

Director: Mike Hodges

Producers: John Quested, Geoffrey Helman

Screenplay: Mike Hodges

Photography: Gerry Fisher

Editor: Malcolm Cooke

Music: John Scott

Art Director: Patricia Klawonn

Production Designer: Voytek

Cast: Rosanna Arquette (Martha Travis), Jason Robards (Walter Travis), Tom Hulce (Gary Wallace), Mark Joy (Lloyd Harley), Ron Rosenthal (Irving Weinberg), John Bennes (Ted Silas), Linda Pierce (Mary Kuron), Olek Krupa (Tom Kuron), Marty Terry (Mrs Adams), Ed Grady (Geoff McBain), Jon Thompson (Jack Callow), Helen Baldwin (Eva Callow), Darla N Warner (Shirley Harley), Christopher L Gray (Choirmaster), Lucy Williams (Choirlady)

The Lifeforce Experiment aka The Breakthrough

(UK/Canada, 1994)

(Hodges was the screenwriter only.)

Production company: Filmline International Inc./Screen Partners Ltd

Director: Piers Haggard

Producer: Nicholas Clermont

Screenplay: Mike Hodges, Gerard Macdonald (based on Daphne du Maurier’s story The Breakthrough)

Photography: Peter Benison

Music: Osvaldo Montes

Editor: Yves Langlois

Production Designer: John Meighen

Cast: Donald Sutherland (Dr “MAC” MacLean), Mimi Kuzyk (Jessica Saunders), Vlasta Vrana (Dr Robbie Allman), Corin Nemec (Ken Ryan), Hayley Reynolds (Niki Janus), Miguel Fernandes (George Cornwall), Michael Rudder (Woddy Gifford), Michael J Reynolds (Jack Aspect), Bronwen Mantel (Gaylene Janus), Peter Colvey (Victor Janus), Richard Zeman (Shepherd), Ann Page (Receptionist), Henderson Walcott (US Marine), Philip Pretten (Attache), Michael Caloz (Ken – 9 years old)

The Healer (UK, 1992, 2 x 60m episodes)

Production Company: BBC

Director: Mike Hodges

Producers: Clive Brill, G F Newman

Screenplay: G F Newman

Editor: John Richards

Cast: Teresa Banham (Ann Meadrow), Leo Brightmore (Thomas Price), Michael Britton (Simon Major), Robert Brydon (Sean), Julie Covington (Madeleine Harland), Julia Ford (Dr Martha Fairbrass), Helen Griffin (Sister Day), Nicky Henson (Dr Ralph Raebryte), Fraser James (Jack Dark), Richard Lynch (Dave Major), Hilary Mason (Mary Simpson), Celia Montague (Elaine Price), David Norman (Peter Spinks), Richard Rees (Dr Paul Wem), Paul Rhys (Dr John Lassiter), Melanie Walters (Gill Major)

Dandelion Dead (UK, 1993, 4 x 60m episodes)

Production Company: London Weekend Television

Director: Mike Hodges

Producers: Patrick Harbinson

Executive Producer: Sarah Wilson

Screenplay: Michael Chaplin

Photography: Gerry Fisher

Editor: Malcolm Cooke

Music: Barrington Pheloung

Production Designer: Voytek

Cast: Michael Kitchen (Major Herbert Armstrong), Sarah Miles (Catherine Armstrong), David Thewlis (Oswald Martin), Lesley Sharp (Constance “Connie” Martin, née Davies), Peter Vaughan (Dr Hinks), Diana Quick (Marion Glassford-Gale), Bernard Hepton (Mr Davies), Robert Stephens (Henry Vaughan), Don Henderson (Chief Inspector Crutchett), Chloe Tucker (Eleanor Armstrong), Alexandra Milman (Margaret Armstrong), Joseph Steel (Pearson Armstrong), Lucy Jenkins (Inez), Roger Lloyd-Pack (Phillips), Patrick Godfrey (Griffiths)

Croupier (UK, 1998, 91m)

Production Company: Channel Four Films/Little Bird/Tatfilm

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Jonathan Cavendish

Screenplay: Paul Mayersberg

Photography: Mike Garfath

Editor: Les Healey

Music: Simon Fisher Turner

Production Designer: Jon Bunker

Cast: Clive Owen (Jack Manfred), Alex Kingston (Jani de Villiers), Gina McKee (Marion), Kate Hardie (Bella), Nicholas Ball (Jack’s Father), Paul Reynolds (Matt), Nick Reding (Max), Kate Fenwick (Cloë), Ozzi Yue (Mr Tchai), Tom Mannion (Ross), James Clyde (Gordon), Emma Lewis (Fiona), Ciro de Chiara (Arabic Man), Barnaby Kay (Car Dealer), Sheila Whitfield (Manicurist), John Radcliffe (Barber)

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (UK, 2002, 90m)

Production Company: Will & Co Productions Ltd

Director: Mike Hodges

Producer: Eliza Mellor

Screenplay: Trevor Preston

Photography: Mike Garfath

Editor: Peter Boyle

Music: Simon Fisher Turner

Production Designer: Jon Bunker

Cast: Clive Owen (Will), Charlotte Rampling (Helen), Malcolm McDowell (Boad), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Davy)