David Hare

David Hare

1947-06-05 St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, UK 44 Credits

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National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

2022

Writer

8.0
Writing

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city ...

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

2021

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was announce...

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

2020

as Self

Acting

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies a...

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running

2019

Writer

10.0
Writing

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalw...

The White Crow

The White Crow

2018

Writer

6.6
Writing

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ...

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

2017

as Self

7.3
Acting

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simult...

Wall

Wall

2017

as Himself

4.0
Acting

Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine.

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

2017

Writer

8.0
Writing

In her garden in the Home Counties, leave-vote Eleanor wonders why the Brexit vote hasn’t made her happier.

Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House

2017

Director

Directing

This documentary tells the story of the history of Ballyfin, how it played an important role in the political, artistic and social life of nineteenth ...

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

2016

as Self

7.8
Acting

This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.

Denial

Denial

2016

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

as Self

Acting

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

2015

Screenplay

Writing

India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of the...

National Theatre Live: Skylight

National Theatre Live: Skylight

2014

Theatre Play, Writer

8.9
Writing

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charis...

Salting the Battlefield

Salting the Battlefield

2014

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...

Turks & Caicos

Turks & Caicos

2014

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Joe Papp in Five Acts

2012

as Self

4.5
Acting

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—...

Getsemani

2011

Theatre Play

Inspired by the behind-the-scenes of the British Labor Party and Tony Blair's team, the author reveals the brutal mechanisms of the game with and for ...

Page Eight

Page Eight

2011

Writer, Director

6.6
Writing Directing

Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

The Reader

The Reader

2008

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

My Zinc Bed

My Zinc Bed

2008

Writer

4.4
Writing

A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.

Art, Truth and Politics

Art, Truth and Politics

2005

as self

Acting

Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to tr...

The Hours

The Hours

2002

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

2001

as Self

Acting

Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to co...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

2000

Director

5.7
Directing

Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more ...

Alan Clarke: His Own Man

Alan Clarke: His Own Man

2000

as Self

6.0
Acting

British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And ye...

Via Dolorosa

Via Dolorosa

2000

as Himself

Acting

In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening jo...

Via Dolorosa

Via Dolorosa

2000

Writer

Writing

In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening jo...

The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner

1997

Director, Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

The Absence of War

The Absence of War

1995

Writer

Writing

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones batt...

The Secret Rapture

1993

Screenplay

3.5
Writing

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmo...

Damage

Damage

1992

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

Heading Home

Heading Home

1991

Director

5.5
Directing

The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.

Strapless

Strapless

1989

Director, Writer

7.5
Directing Writing

An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inh...

Paris by Night

Paris by Night

1989

Director, Writer

4.5
Directing Writing

Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned b...

Plenty

Plenty

1985

Screenplay, Theatre Play

5.7
Writing

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Wetherby

Wetherby

1985

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

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...

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

1983

Writer, Associate Producer

4.6
Writing Producing

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Ches...

Dreams of Leaving

Dreams of Leaving

1980

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very stra...

Licking Hitler

Licking Hitler

1978

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But te...

Knuckle

Knuckle

1975

Theatre Play

Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

Brassneck

Brassneck

1975

Writer

Writing

Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property spe...

Man Above Men

Man Above Men

1973

Writer

Writing

Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The ...

The Heritage

The Heritage

1962

as Lawrence Morell

Acting

British horror short from 1962.