White Nights
1984
2010: The Year We Made Contact
Cal
1983
Cymbeline
1981
A Midsummer Nights Dream Excalibur
1980
The Long Good Friday
Caligula
The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu
Hussy
1978
As You Like It
1976
Hamlet
1975
The Collection
1973
O Lucky Man!
1972
Savage Messiah
Miss Julie
1969
Age of Consent
1968
A Midsummers Nights Dream
1967
Herostratus
Theatre
2003
Mourning Becomes Electra
2001
Dance of Death
2000
Orpheus Descending
1999
Collected Stories
1998
Antony and Cleopatra
1994
A Month in the Country
1991
Sex Please, We’re Italian
1989
1988
Richard III
1987
Madam Bovary
1984
The Roaring Girl
Extremities
1982
Antony and Cleopatra
1981
The Faith Healer
1980
The Duchess of Malfi
1979
Measure for Measure
1977
Henry VI
1975
The Seagull
Teeth’n’Smiles
The Bed Before Yesterday
1974
Macbeth
1971
Man of Mode
Enemies
1970
Hamlet
Two Gentlemen of Verona
1969
The Revenger’s Tragedy
Bartholomew Fair
1968
Troilus and Cressida
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
The Silver Tassle
All’s Well That Ends Well
1966
Hamlet
1965
Antony and Cleopatra
Television
2006
Prime Suspect 7
Elizabeth I
2003
Prime Suspect 6
2002
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Georgetown
Door to Door
2001
Terror in America (narrator)
Boston Law (narrator)
Happy Birthday (director)
2000
Long Night’s Journey Into Day (narrator)
1999
French and Saunders
Helen Mirren in South Africa
1997
Painted Lady
1996
Prime Suspect 5
Losing Chase
French and Saunders
1995
Prime Suspect 4 (Scent of Darkness; Inner Circles; The Lost Child)
1993
Prime Suspect 3
The Hidden Room
1992
Prime Suspect 2
1990
Prime Suspect
1989
After the Party
1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (narrator)
1987
Invocation Maya Deren (narrator)
1982
Soft Targets
1981
Mrs Reinhardt
1979
The Serpent Son
Blue Remembered Hills
1977
1975
The Philanthropist
The Apple Cart
Caesar and Claretta
The Empty Space
The Little Minister
1974
A Coffin for the Bride
The Changling
Bellamira
1972
Cousin Bette
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