Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
Director: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Luka Petrusic Production Company: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Revolution Films Kent location used: Dungeness, Folkestone Harbour arm I Want You is a film noir about a young boy, Honda (Luka Petrusic) and his sister Smokey (Labina Mitevska) who get drawn into the relentless pursuit of Helen (Rachel Weisz) by […]
Directed by: Julian Farino Produced By: Caroline Wearing Written By: Charles Dickens (Novel) & Sandy Welch (Adaptation) Starring: Keeley Hawes, Paul McGann, Anna Friel, David Morrissey & Steven Mackintosh Production Company: BBC Kent Locations Used: The Historic Dockyard Chatham, River Medway Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens’ last complete novel. It was written in 1864-1865 when […]
Director: Phillip Noyce Starring: Val Kilmer, Elizabeth Shue, Henry Goodman, Rade Šerbedžija, Alun Armstrong Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment, Mace Neufeld Productions, Robert Evans Company Kent Filming Location: Fort Amherst, Chatham Inspired by the 1928 novels and following in the footsteps of the 1960’s TV series, starring Roger Moore, The Saint is about Simon Templar […]
Director: Graham Theakston Writer: Hugh Stoddart (Screenplay) & George Eliot (Novel) Starring: Emily Watson, Cheryl Campbell, James Frain, Bernard Hill, Joanna David, Ifan Meredith Production Company: BBC, Canal+ Carnival Film & Television, UGC DA International Kent Locations: The Historic Dockyard Chatham The Mill on the Floss is a 1997 BBC adaptation of the George Eliot classic […]
Director: Michael Winterbottom Writer: Hossein Amini (screenplay), Thomas Hardy (novel) Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths Production Company: BBC Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Revolution Films Kent Locations Used: Kent and East Sussex Railway Jude is a 1996 British period drama film about a self-educated stonemason who enters into an illicit affair with […]
Director: Terry Jones Writer: Terry Jones (Screenplay), Kenneth Grahame (Novel) Starring: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Bernard Hill, Michael Palin, Nigel Planer, Julia Sawalha, Robert Bathurst, Richard James Production Company: Allied Filmmakers Kent locations: Dover Castle, Chiddingstone The Wind in The Willows – Mr Toad’s Wild Ride […]
Written and starring: Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders Production Company: BBC Kent Locations: Finchcocks French and Saunders is a BBC sketch comedy series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French (The Wrong Mans, Let Them Eat Cake, The Vicar of Dibley) and Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, Coraline, Shrek 2). The show aired for seven […]
Director: Edward Bennett Writer: Clive Exton Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts Production Company: Carnival Film & Television, London Weekend Television, Picture Partnership Productions Kent Filming Locations: Chilham In 1995 Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) visited Chilham in Kent for a further instalment of his adventures as written by Agatha Christie. Multi millionaire Simeon (Vernon Dubtcheff) arranges […]
Director: John Schlesinger Writer: Malcolm Bradbury (screenplay), Stella Gibbons (novel) Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Eileen Atkins, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen Production Company: BBC, Thames Television Kent Locations Used: Kent and East Sussex Railway, Royal Military Canal Cold Comfort Farm is a BBC adaption of Stella Gibbons’ novel of the same name. […]
Writer: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor Director: Andy De Emmony Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn Production Company: Grant Naylor Kent Locations Used: Filmed in Laredo Wild West Town, Longfield, Kent In Gunmen of the Apocalypse (Season 6, Ep 3), cult Sci-fi TV Series Red Dwarf visited Kent. The crew of […]