Adrian Shergold

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Adrian Shergold

Born March 24, 1948 · Croydon, Surrey, England, UK (age 78)

Adrian Shergold is a British director and former actor. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial for Holding On in 1998. He is represented by United Agents.

Known For

Four Letters of LoveFour Letters of Love · 2025
Four Letters of Love
★ 6.02025
MovieRomanceDrama
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
PersuasionPersuasion · 2007
Persuasion
★ 7.22007
MovieDramaRomance
Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law, Frederick returns as a captain - but will he remember Anne?
Funny CowFunny Cow · 2018
Funny Cow
★ 6.32018
MovieComedyDrama
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
The Naked Civil ServantThe Naked Civil Servant · 1975
The Naked Civil Servant
★ 6.71975
MovieDramaComedy
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Pierrepoint: The Last HangmanPierrepoint: The Last Hangman · 2005
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
★ 7.12005
MovieDramaHistory
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
Clapham JunctionClapham Junction · 2007
Clapham Junction
★ 6.52007
MovieDramaTV Movie
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
CordeliaCordelia · 2019
Cordelia
★ 5.12019
MovieDramaThriller
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.
The Best Years of Your LifeThe Best Years of Your Life · 1986
The Best Years of Your Life
1986
Movie
Robert Clark is 17, wheelchair-bound, and he hasn't long to live. But he tries to come to terms with a bleak outlook. So do his father and brother Mark. Out of the situation, the three discover a bond and a certain strength.

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DenmarkDenmark · 2019
Denmark
★ 6.22019
MovieComedy
Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns from a TV news report that Danish prisoners have it way better than he does: a job, accessible healthcare, the quiet of the countryside, even an HDTV. They’re practically living in hotels. He says goodbye (and good riddance) to his dingy flat and smuggles himself to Denmark aboard a cargo ship, landing in a quaint town with everything he needs -- including a bank to rob. But when he meets a friendly local barmaid and a lovable stray dog that won’t leave his side, he begins to wonder if prison really is his only chance of a fulfilling life.

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Star MaidensStar Maidens · 1976
Star Maidens
★ 4.21976
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series created and written by Eric Paice. Utilising a 'battle of the sexes' and role reversal scenario, the planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet (as seen in the opening credits) knocked it out of its orbit around Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, with the inhabitants surviving in huge underground cities. Jointly produced by Portman Productions, Scottish Television, and Werbung im Rundfunk for ITV, filming took place at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series ran for 13 episodes from 1 September to 1 December 1976.

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