PRODUCTIONS FILMED IN BATH 1931 – 2004 Date Production Company Director Cast Location 1931 The Ghost Train Gainsborough Walter Forde Starring Jack Camerton Station was Hulbert, Cicely ‘The Station’ Courtnidge and Arnold Ridley 1949 Kind Hearts and Ealing Robert Alec Guinness, Apparently Lansdown Coronets Hamer Dennis Price, , Crescent was used in this Valerie Hobson, classic film, but this is Joan Greenwood, unconfirmed. Arthur Lowe 1952 The Titfield Ealing Films Charles Stanley Holloway, Midford/Monkton Combe, Thunderbolt Crichton John Gregson, Freshford George Relph, Sid James 1954 Prince Valiant 20th Century Fox Dir: Otto Robert Wagner, Pump Room Lang James Mason, Bath Street Debra Paget, Janet Leigh 1961 Change of Heart ? Janette Scott Roman Baths George Chakiris Camden Crescent Holburne Museum 1963 80,000 Suspects Rank Val Guest Clare Bloom, A smallpox epidemic Richard Johnson, terrorises the city of Bath. Cyril Cusack, Ray Barrett 1964 The Count of BBC TV Alan Badel Holburne Museum Monte Cristo Michael Gough No 1 Royal Crescent 1964 The Secret of ? James Booth Carpenters Arms My Success Honor Blackman Beanacre Manor 1966 The Wrong Box Columbia Bryan Forbes Ralph Richardson, Two elderly Victorian John Mills, Michael brothers are the last Caine, Nanette survivors of a tontine (a Newman, Peter kind of lottery) and try to Cook, Dudley murder each other Moore, Peter Sellars, Tony Royal Crescent, St Hancock, John le James’s Square Mesurier 1967 Doctor Dolittle CBS Richard Rex Harrison, Filmed at Castle Combe, Fleischer Anthony Newley, near Chippenham. AA for Richard the song Talk to the Attenborough. Animals 1967 Let Me Tell You BBC James John Tidmarsh Pump Room Dewar Meryl O’Keefe 1967 Girl With A Gun Document Mario Monica Vitti Pump Room Monicelli Stanley Baker Crescents 1967 Vanity Fair BBC serial David Giles Susan Hampshire Sion Hill Royal Crescent 1969 Softy Softly BBC Gavin Campbell Victoria Art Gallery Howell Evans Prior Park College Holburne Museum Gay Street 1969 The Music United Artists Ken Russell Richard Based on a book by Lovers Chamberlain, Melvyn Bragg this film is Glenda Jackson based on the life of Tchaikowsky: Pump Room was the Moscow Conservatoire 1970 Sentimental BBC Series Robert Powell Prior Park Education 1970 Persuasion ? ? Anne Firbank & North Parade Bryan Marshall 1971 The Canterbury United Artists Pier Paolo Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bradford on Avon Tales Pasolini Hugh Griffith, Tom Tithe Barn Baker 1972 The Hireling Bray Studios Robert Shaw Green Park Station Sarah Miles 1973 Bequest to a Universal Pictures Hal Willis Peter Finch, Glenda Lansdown Crescent Nation Jackson, Anthony The story of Nelson’s long Quayle affair with Lady Hamilton 1973 Barry Lyndon Hawk Films Ltd Stanley Ryan O’Neill, Marisa Wilton House, Longleat, Kubrick Berenson Corsham Court, Royal Victoria Park 1976 Joseph Andrews United Artists Tony Peter Firth, Ann- Royal Crescent Richardson Margret, Michael Horden, Jim Dale, Adventures of a naïve Wendy Craig, 18thC footman (after Tom Timothy West, Jones) Peggy Ashcroft, Ronald Pickup 1979 Agatha Warner/First Michael Vanessa Redgrave, Hot Bath Artists Apted Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West 1979 Shoestring BBC Trevor Eve, Michael Pump Room Medwin 1982 Jamaica Inn HTV Film Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoughan 1983 Master of HTV/CBS Sir John Geilgud St Catherine’s Valley & Ballantrae Michael York Court Timothy Dalton 1984 Arch of Triumph HTV Film Anthony Hopkins St Martins Hospital Lesley Ann Down 1984 Jenny’s War Columbia Dyan Cannon Guildhall & Empire Bars Trevor Howard Nigel Hawthorne 1985 The Displaced HTV Film Alan Bridges Rosemary Leach Walcot Reclamation Person 1986 Suspicion HTV/Hemisphere Anthony Andrews St Margaret’s Buildings Jane Curtin Herschel House Sir Michael Hordern 1986 The Mistress BBC Series Felicity Kendal Henrietta Gardens Jane Asher St Mark’s Road Widcombe Abbey Green Pulteney Bridge Steps 1986 Frontier HTV Film Pierre Lary Mel Martin Spring Gardens Abbey Green Widcombe Manor Kelston Park 1986 Miss Marple – Joan Hickson Theatre Royal Sleeping Murder 1986 Crazy Like a American TV Paul Krasny Catherine Oxenburg Royal Crescent Fox series 1987 Northanger BBC Giles Foster Peter Firth Assembly Rooms Abbey Robert Hardy No 1 Royal Crescent It is thought that the gothic house in Northanger Abbey is based on Lacock Abbey Bath Abbey 1987 Jack The Ripper Thames TV Michael Caine 1987 Hannay Thames TV Robert Powell Cross Bath Spy Thriller series 1987 Treasure Hunt Channel 4 Anneka Rice 1987 Codename Kyril HTV Film Denholm Elliot Walcot Reclamation Edward Woodward Corsham Court 1988 Indiscreet HTV Film Lesley Ann Down Banqueting Room for Ball Robert Wagner 1988 The Great HTV Columbia Brooke Shields Royal United Hospital Diamond TV film Twiggy Robbery 1989 The Bubble HTV series Bill Oddie North Parade Gum Brigade 1989 King of The HTV/Panzer Davis Jenny Agutter Bath Street Wind Frank Finlay 1989 A Haunting HTV/Primedia Lacock Abbey Harmony 1991 Trainer BBC Susannah York Bath Racecourse 1991 Bergerac BBC John Nettles Beaux Arts Gallery Theatre Royal 1991 That’s Love BBC Tony Slattery Francis Hotel 1991- House of Eliot BBC Stella Gonet, Louise Milsom Street used as an 94 Lombard Edwardian shopping street Theatre Royal Royal Victoria Park Assembly Rooms area 1993 The Remains of Merchant Ivory Anthony Hopkins, Dyrham Park (exterior), the Day Emma Thompson, Corsham Court (interior) Christopher Reeve, and The Hop Pole Inn and Edward Fox Post Office at Limpley Stoke, Clevedon and Weston Super Mare, The George Inn, Norton St Philip 1994 Savage Hearts Savage Hearts Dir: Mark Richard Harris, Productions Ezra Maryam D’Abo 1994 Persuasion BBC Dir: Roger Amanda Root, 95 Sydney Place, interior Michel Ciaran Hinds, and exterior, Abbey Samuel West, Corin Church Yard, Abbey Redgrave Green, The Pump Room (int & ext), The Assembly Rooms (Tea Rooms and Octagon), Carwardines (Old Bond Street), Bath Street, Sheldon Manor near Chippenham (int & ext), The George Inn, Norton St Philip 1994 Pie in the Sky Select TV Richard Griffiths, 1995 Eye of the Tiger Frankfurter Films 1995 The Hollow Scala Productions Dir: Angela Martin Donovan, Widcombe Hill, The Reed Pope Joely Richardson, Guildhall, The Circus, Bath Ian Hart and Jason Street, Lansdown Hill and Fleyming Lansdown Park. 1995 Famous Five Zenith Dirs: Michael North/HTV/IT Kerrigan & Tony Kish 1995 Poldark HTV Dir: Richard Laxton 1995 Buffalo Girls CBS/De Passe Anjelica Houston, The Circus, High Street, Entertainment Melanie Griffith, Henrietta Park and Queen Gabriel Byrne, Sam Street in Bath made to Elliot, Jack Palance look like Victorian London (P) 199? Pride & BBC Colin Firth, Jennifer Lacock Village (National Prejudice Ehle Trust) used as Meryton. Sheldon Manor used as “Uppercross”. 1996 Moll Flanders Granada Alex Kingston Lacock and Norton St Philip (The George Inn) 1996 Emma ITV Network Castle Combe and Lacock 1996 Drover’s Gold BBC Wales Dir: Tristram David Calder, Ray The Circus was filled with Powell/ Stevenson, cattle for this picture (P) Lesley Geraldine Manning James,Freddie Jones 1997 A Respectable BBC Suri Warren Clarke, North Parade Buildings Trade Krishnamma Jenny Agutter, used to represent Clifton in Richard Briers Bristol, The Circus (used to represent Queen Sq in Bristol) (P) 1997 Inspector Morse Zenith John Thaw, Kevin Royal Crescent Whately 1997 An Unsuitable BBC/Ecosse Films Helen Baxendale, Job for a Annette Crosbie Woman 1998 Passion Matt Carroll Films Roman Baths used as the setting for a concert. Also Rivers Street (P) 1999 Wives and BBC Francesca Annis, Village of Marshfield Daughters Amanda Wadell 1999 Happy Birthday BBC Neil Morrissey, Abbey Churchyard and Shakespeare Amanda Houlden, Pulteney Bridge Dirvla Kirwan 2000 Other People’s BBC Dir: Pete Cast: Lesley Abbey Churchyard, Park Children Travis Manville, Emma Street , St James’s Park, Fielding, Serena Cheddar Gorge Gordon, Denis Lawson, Emilia Fox 2000 Coca Cola Ad Ashwarya Rai Cricket Pavilion, The Rec St Laurence School, Bradford-o-A 2000 Chocolat Miramax Dir: Lasse Juliette Binoche, Fonthill Bishop estate and Hailstromm Johnny Depp, Alfred Brymton d’Evercy, Tisbury Molina, Judy Dench 2000 Watercolour Planet 24 Kingston Parade, Iford Challenge Manor, Stanton Drew stones, Prior Park 2000 The Hole Pathe Thora Bird Downside School 2000 Wish You Were Pearson TV for Jane Austen Centre, Bath Here ITV Aqua Glass 2000 Ghost Hunter II BBC/Zenith North Dir: David Cast: Jean Marsh Wilts locations Bell 2000 The Mayor of BBC Corsham, Lacock Casterbridge 2000 Casualty BBC Publow Church Horseworld, Whitchurch 2000 Darwin WGBH Boston Dir: Alistair Longleat, Bath City Centre, Reid No 1 Royal Crescent, The Guildhall and Council Chamber 2001 Casualty BBC Clays End Farm, Newton St Loe 2001 The Holiday BBC Craig Doyle Bath hotels & attractions Programme 2001 Blind Date LWT Bath city centre 2001 Location Ideal Productions Weston, Lansdown, Location Batheaston Location 2001 Blue Peter OB BBC Royal Victoria Park/Royal Crescent 2001/ Harry Potter 1 & Warner Bros Dir: Lacock 2 2 Christopher Columbus 2001 Bertie & Carlton Dir: Giles James Wilby, Juliet Bath & Wilts: Longleat, Elizabeth Foster Aubrey, Alan Bates, Bath Abbey, Assembly Eileen Atkins Rooms, Hamswell House, Hartham Park, Bath Racecourse, Bath Spa Sion Hill Campus 2002 The Relic Farrier Films for The George Pub Hunter Canada TV Batheaston 2002 You’ve Got a Thai TV soap Bath city centre – various Friend - UMA 99 2002 BBC Celebrity BBC Sport Relief Steve Redgrave Sports Village, Bath Uni Super Stars River Avon Royal Avenue Sham