Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom

Birthday: 1931-02-15

Place of Birth: Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography: Claire Bloom CBE (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) is an English actress.

Movies

The Man Between
The Man Between

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets in...

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Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-G...

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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed

Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection....

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The Buccaneer
The Buccaneer

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

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Fiona's Story
Fiona's Story

Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography....

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Mighty Aphrodite
Mighty Aphrodite

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes o...

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The Haunting
The Haunting

Dr. John Markway invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subje...

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The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man

A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him ...

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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an...

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...

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Charly
Charly

An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he...

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Limelight
Limelight

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again fee...

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A Doll's House
A Doll's House

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian hus...

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The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin

The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic ...

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of ...

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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops for...

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Richard III
Richard III

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, ...

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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who hol...

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A Severed Head
A Severed Head

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best ...

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The Teacher from Vigevano
The Teacher from Vigevano

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to ...

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Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom

Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with ...

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The Chatterley Affair
The Chatterley Affair

The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley...

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Yesterday's Children
Yesterday's Children

After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, ...

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A Village Affair
A Village Affair

An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter...

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospita...

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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life ...

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Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII....

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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cine...

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The Outrage
The Outrage

At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss th...

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Daniel and the Superdogs
Daniel and the Superdogs

A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn ...

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The Lady and the Highwayman
The Lady and the Highwayman

During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in ...

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On Cukor
On Cukor

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the...

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

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Separate Tables
Separate Tables

Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contr...

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Brainwashed
Brainwashed

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him...

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Innocents in Paris
Innocents in Paris

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend....

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The Chapman Report
The Chapman Report

A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women....

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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer

Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contra...

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Déjà Vu
Déjà Vu

A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated also believes that his present wife possesses ...

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Max Rose
Max Rose

An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their li...

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Kalamazoo?
Kalamazoo?

The story of three girlfriends who go back to Kalamazoo, Michigan for their 10 year high school reun...

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3 Into 2 Won't Go
3 Into 2 Won't Go

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young...

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Liberty
Liberty

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and t...

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It's Nothing Personal
It's Nothing Personal

An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after ...

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The Blind Goddess
The Blind Goddess

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...

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Wrestling with Alligators
Wrestling with Alligators

All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simple...

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Shadowlands
Shadowlands

A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham....

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a ve...

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80,000 Suspects
80,000 Suspects

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a ...

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Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century

A new TV documentary on Chaplin that celebrates a 100 years of the iconic Tramp, presented by Lauren...

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Chaplin Today: Limelight
Chaplin Today: Limelight

A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."...

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The King's Speech
The King's Speech

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabet...

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Remember
Remember

Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dange...

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Gorgeous Antonia is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets M...

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Daylight
Daylight

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks...

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2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom

Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with ...

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The Going Up of David Lev
The Going Up of David Lev

A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to f...

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Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom
Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom has performed leading and important supporting roles in numerous plays by William Shake...

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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer...

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What the Deaf Man Heard
What the Deaf Man Heard

In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and...

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Imagining Argentina
Imagining Argentina

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the f...

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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...

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Soldier in Love
Soldier in Love

The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne....

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost ha...

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Red Sky at Morning
Red Sky at Morning

Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo...

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Imogen's Face
Imogen's Face

The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her whil...

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Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle...

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Tattooed Steiger
Tattooed Steiger

A behind-the-scenes look on the making of the movie "The Illustrated Man" featuring scenes from the ...

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The Lady in Question
The Lady in Question

In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is sus...

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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The po...

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The Life and Death of King John
The Life and Death of King John

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Ar...

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Tales from the Madhouse
Tales from the Madhouse

Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters re...

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The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, wil...

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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...

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Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep

An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret....

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Love and Murder
Love and Murder

While keeping her family together in the wake of her husband's murder, Joanne gets drawn into anothe...

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Miss Dalí
Miss Dalí

Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy...

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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that th...

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Ann and Debbie
Ann and Debbie

Two friends, Ann and Debbie, meet for drinks to discuss marriage difficulties....

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The Book of Eve
The Book of Eve

A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around...

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High Infidelity
High Infidelity

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemm...

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Henry VIII
Henry VIII

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine a...

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Cymbeline
Cymbeline

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man...

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House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague
House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague

A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague....

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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depres...

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Chaplin vs the FBI
Chaplin vs the FBI

How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or c...

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And While We Were Here
And While We Were Here

Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a ca...

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Tonight in Britain
Tonight in Britain

A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford ...

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Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Richard Burton: Wild Genius

The son of a Welsh miner, Richard Burton became a Hollywood star and is considered one of the greate...

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