Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson

1948-02-05 Leeds, England, UK 106 Credits

Biography

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson OBE (5 February 1948 – 30 December 2023) was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Wilkinson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making his West End debut portraying Horatio in H...

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SAS: Red Notice

SAS: Red Notice

2021

as William Lewis

5.8
Acting

An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the tra...

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

2021

as Dr. Bird (Voice)

7.1
Acting

In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression involve seeking...

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

2018

as Leslie

6.3
Acting

William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assur...

Burden

Burden

2018

as Tom Griffin

6.2
Acting

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, un...

The Catcher Was a Spy

The Catcher Was a Spy

2018

as Paul Scherrer

6.2
Acting

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince

2018

as Father Dunne

6.3
Acting

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....

The Titan

The Titan

2018

as Prof. Martin Collingwood

5.3
Acting

On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

This Beautiful Fantastic

This Beautiful Fantastic

2016

as Alfie Stevenson

7.1
Acting

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a ...

Denial

Denial

2016

as Richard Rampton

6.9
Acting

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...

Snowden

Snowden

2016

as Ewen MacAskill

7.1
Acting

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

The Choice

The Choice

2016

as Dr. Shep

7.2
Acting

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

Jenny's Wedding

Jenny's Wedding

2015

as Eddie

5.7
Acting

Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roo...

Little Boy

Little Boy

2015

as Fr. Oliver

7.2
Acting

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love...

Bone in the Throat

Bone in the Throat

2015

as Charlie

Acting

A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

2015

as Timothy McWinters

5.5
Acting

A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a rout...

Selma

Selma

2014

as President Lyndon B. Johnson

7.4
Acting

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...

Felony

Felony

2014

as Detective Carl Summer

5.7
Acting

Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one...

Good People

Good People

2014

as DI John Halden

5.5
Acting

Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of thei...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

as Author

8.0
Acting

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

2013

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward t...

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

2013

as Cole

6.1
Acting

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is ...

Belle

Belle

2013

as Lord Mansfield

7.1
Acting

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...

The Samaritan

The Samaritan

2012

as Xavier

5.5
Acting

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new sta...

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2012

as Graham Dashwood

6.9
Acting

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Mari...

WWII in 3D

WWII in 3D

2012

as Narrator (voice)

6.2
Acting

For the first time, you will see dramatic moments of WWII that were captured in 3D with stereographs and then shuttered away in secret archives and at...

Space Junk 3D

Space Junk 3D

2012

as Narrator (voice)

5.9
Acting

50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that threatens the safety of ear...

The Gruffalo's Child

The Gruffalo's Child

2011

as The Fox (voice)

6.9
Acting

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores th...

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

2011

as IMF Secretary (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch c...

The Conspirator

The Conspirator

2011

as Reverdy Johnson

6.6
Acting

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet

2011

as James Reid

5.6
Acting

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. Afte...

Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare

2010

as Dr. Knox

6.1
Acting

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Jackboots on Whitehall

Jackboots on Whitehall

2010

as Goebbels (voice)

5.0
Acting

A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

The Debt

The Debt

2010

as Stefan Gold

6.6
Acting

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that...

The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

2010

as Paul Emmett

6.8
Acting

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island aft...

The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo

2009

as Fox (voice)

7.3
Acting

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Sn...

44 Inch Chest

44 Inch Chest

2009

as Archie

5.5
Acting

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

Duplicity

Duplicity

2009

as Howard Tully

5.9
Acting

Two romantically involved corporate spies team up to manipulate a race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and al...

Valkyrie

Valkyrie

2008

as Friedrich Fromm

6.9
Acting

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

A Number

A Number

2008

as Salter

5.2
Acting

A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.

RocknRolla

RocknRolla

2008

as Lenny Cole

7.0
Acting

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their shar...

Recount

Recount

2008

as James Baker

6.8
Acting

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging cha...

Cassandra's Dream

Cassandra's Dream

2007

as Howard

6.3
Acting

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton

2007

as Arthur Edens

6.8
Acting

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Dedication

Dedication

2007

as Rudy Holt

6.3
Acting

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after ...

The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss

2006

as Stephen

6.0
Acting

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someo...

The Night of the White Pants

The Night of the White Pants

2006

as Max Hagan

5.5
Acting

The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend.

Ripley Under Ground

Ripley Under Ground

2005

as John Webster

5.7
Acting

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...

Separate Lies

Separate Lies

2005

as James Manning

5.8
Acting

Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

2005

as Father Moore

6.6
Acting

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The pri...

Batman Begins

Batman Begins

2005

as Carmine Falcone

7.7
Acting

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable t...

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim

2004

as Bingley Crocker

6.5
Acting

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his d...

A Good Woman

A Good Woman

2004

as Tuppy

6.3
Acting

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Er...

Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty

2004

as Betterton

6.7
Acting

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because th...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

as Dr. Mierzwiak

8.1
Acting

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his me...

If Only

If Only

2004

as Taxi Driver

7.0
Acting

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stri...

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring

2003

as Pieter Van Ruijven

6.6
Acting

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl Wit...

Normal

Normal

2003

as Roy 'Ruth' Applewood

6.8
Acting

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

An Angel for May

An Angel for May

2002

as Sam Wheeler

6.2
Acting

When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his fri...

Before You Go

Before You Go

2002

as Frank

5.0
Acting

The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sist...

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002

as Dr. Chasuble

6.9
Acting

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

2002

as Sir Robert Vansittart

6.6
Acting

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...

In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom

2001

as Matt Fowler

6.9
Acting

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his ...

Black Knight

Black Knight

2001

as Sir Knolte of Marlborough

5.3
Acting

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th centu...

Another Life

Another Life

2001

as Mr. Carlton

6.0
Acting

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend ...

Chain of Fools

Chain of Fools

2001

as Bollingsworth

5.8
Acting

An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.

Essex Boys

Essex Boys

2000

as John Dyke

5.6
Acting

Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper...

The Patriot

The Patriot

2000

as Gen. Cornwallis

7.2
Acting

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the s...

Ride with the Devil

Ride with the Devil

1999

as Orton Brown

6.4
Acting

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us...

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

1999

as Brother Dutton

6.0
Acting

The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love

1998

as Hugh Fennyman

6.9
Acting

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman a...

Jilting Joe

1998

as Wyatt

Acting

Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But, the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than the...

Rush Hour

Rush Hour

1998

as Griffin

7.0
Acting

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Dete...

The Governess

The Governess

1998

as Mr. Charles Cavendish

5.9
Acting

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraw...

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

1997

as Hugh Stratton

6.4
Acting

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling...

Cold Enough for Snow

Cold Enough for Snow

1997

as Hugh Lloyd

6.3
Acting

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.

Wilde

Wilde

1997

as Marquess of Queensberry

6.6
Acting

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...

The Full Monty

The Full Monty

1997

as Gerald Arthur Cooper

7.0
Acting

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

as Prof. Loyen

6.3
Acting

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...

The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness

1996

as Sir Robert Beaumont

6.8
Acting

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects resu...

Crossing the Floor

Crossing the Floor

1996

as David Hanratty

6.7
Acting

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the oppos...

Eskimo Day

Eskimo Day

1996

as Hugh

7.5
Acting

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they...

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as Mr. Dashwood

7.4
Acting

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

A Very Open Prison

A Very Open Prison

1995

as David Hanratty

10.0
Acting

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murd...

Priest

Priest

1995

as Father Matthew Thomas

6.3
Acting

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

1994

as Duke Vincentio

1.0
Acting

Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

All Things Bright and Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful

1994

as Father McAteer

8.0
Acting

A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic ru...

A Business Affair

A Business Affair

1994

as Bob

4.8
Acting

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...

Prince of Jutland

Prince of Jutland

1994

as Hardvendel

5.5
Acting

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

1993

as Appeal Prosecutor

7.9
Acting

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in ...

Resnick: Rough Treatment

1993

as DI Charlie Resnick

Acting

A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was ...

An Exchange of Fire

1993

as President Slajek

Acting

Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public ...

Resnick: Lonely Hearts

1992

as DI Charlie Resnick

Acting

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. ...

Paper Mask

Paper Mask

1990

as Dr. Thorn

5.7
Acting

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nu...

Sometime in August

Sometime in August

1990

as Dr. Middleton

Acting

Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.

First and Last

First and Last

1989

as Stephen

7.0
Acting

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

1988

as Silberbauer

6.5
Acting

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for tran...

The Woman He Loved

The Woman He Loved

1988

as Ernest Simpson

10.0
Acting

In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...

Sylvia

1986

as Keith

6.5
Acting

New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used whil...

Wetherby

Wetherby

1985

as Roger Braithwaite

6.0
Acting

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its resid...

Parker

Parker

1985

as Tom

5.3
Acting

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.

Sakharov

Sakharov

1984

7.0
Acting

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Squaring the Circle

Squaring the Circle

1984

as Rulewski

5.0
Acting

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Letting the Birds Go Free

Letting the Birds Go Free

1983

as Eddie

Acting

A farm family catch a young man stealing eggs from their barn. Seemingly homeless, the man stays with them. Daughter Grace is disgusted by the strange...

The Shadow-Line

The Shadow-Line

1976

as Ransome

6.0
Acting

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a...

The Man Who Saved Paris

N/A

as Lester

Acting

The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city's image (City of Love, Romance, Light) afte...

The Liar

The Liar

N/A

as Trefusis

Acting

Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill...