Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

1946-01-26 Faial, Açores, Portugal 38 Credits

Biography

Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation

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A German Life

2022

Screenplay

Writing

Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

The Son

The Son

2022

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about...

Dracula: The Musical

Dracula: The Musical

2022

Lyricist, Writer

9.0
Writing

German production of the Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn as shown in the Wilhelmsburg in Ulm, Germany.

The Father

The Father

2020

Screenplay

8.1
Writing

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved o...

Sunset Boulevard in Concert

Sunset Boulevard in Concert

2020

Lyricist, Writer

Writing

Set over a turbulent New Year’s Eve in 1940s Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard is a compelling story of romance and obsession. Directed by Nikolai Foster, t...

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream

2017

as Self

6.4
Acting

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

Joe Orton Laid Bare

Joe Orton Laid Bare

2017

as Himself

Acting

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

The General And Me

2017

Producer

Producing

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the f...

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

2016

Theatre Play

7.0

Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont...

Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino

2016

Writer

6.7
Writing

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the F...

The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale

2013

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initiall...

Adore

Adore

2013

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendshi...

Dracula: The Musical

Dracula: The Musical

2011

Lyricist

8.0

Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original 1897 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker. The score is by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics and book by D...

A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method

2011

Screenplay, Theatre Play

6.4
Writing

Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s we...

Chéri

Chéri

2009

Writer

6.1
Writing

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of l...

Atonement

Atonement

2007

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

2003

as Self

5.0
Acting

Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...

Imagining Argentina

Imagining Argentina

2003

Director

5.6
Directing

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his...

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

2003

Writer

Writing

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her...

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

2002

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

1996

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...

Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly

1996

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

1995

as The Judge

6.4
Acting

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif...

Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

1995

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif...

Carrington

Carrington

1995

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...

Tales from Hollywood

Tales from Hollywood

1992

Writer

1.0
Writing

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri...

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

1988

Screenplay, Theatre Play

7.2
Writing

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...

The Wolf at the Door

The Wolf at the Door

1986

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inab...

Hotel du Lac

Hotel du Lac

1986

Writer

4.0
Writing

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by obse...

The Good Father

The Good Father

1985

Writer

5.7
Writing

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so ...

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul

1983

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to...

Rimbaud in L.A.

Rimbaud in L.A.

1982

Writer

Writing

In modern day Los Angeles, writer Paul Verlaine invites young provocating poet Arthur Rimbaud into the home of his step-family, losing interest in his...

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tales from the Vienna Woods

1979

Writer

6.0
Writing

Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the bu...

Able's Will

Able's Will

1977

Writer

Writing

Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

The Philanthropist

1975

Writer

Writing

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict amo...

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

1973

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and li...

Wilder & Me

Wilder & Me

N/A

Writer

Writing

Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman...

The Noise of Time

N/A

Writer

Writing

The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after h...