Andrew Grieve (Director)
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Works
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Release Date1989-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count522
Hornblower
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
Release Date1998-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count33
Bugs
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
Release Date1995-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count16
Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Release Date2003-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count37
Young Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
Release Date1985-12-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count678
Mahogany
An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
Release Date1975-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count27
Rose and Maloney
Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.
Release Date2002-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Hornblower: Duty
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Release Date2003-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
Lorna Doone
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Release Date1990-12-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Kingdom
Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance.
Release Date2007-04-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count22
Hornblower: Mutiny
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
Release Date2001-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count42
Suspicion
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent of the original.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Poor Cow
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
Release Date1967-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count48
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.
Release Date2006-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count27
Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour long episode featured a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán Cortés, Richard I of England, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The statements at the beginning of each episode read: "This film depicts real events and real characters. It is based on the accounts of writers of the time. It has been written with the advice of modern historians." In the United States the show is aired on The Military Channel and was called "Warriors".
Release Date2007-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
All or Nothing at All
In this compelling story of a daring conman, Leo Hopkins (Hugh Laurie) prospers from the greed of others - but his undeniable charm and willingness to take risks plunge him into a mess of troubles and worry. Addicted to gambling, seduced by his secretary and threatened by his corrupt boss, his life spirals downward and Leo must find a way to straighten himself out before he loses everything.
Release Date1993-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Original Sin
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
Release Date1997-03-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
The Big Battalions
The Big Battalions tells the story of three families, Christian, Muslim and Jewish, and moves between Britain, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Release Date1992-11-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Release Date1999-04-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count46
The Birthday Party
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Release Date1968-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count18
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
Release Date1998-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count54
Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Release Date1977-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count11
On the Black Hill
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Release Date1988-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
Release Date1998-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count44
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Release Date1999-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count38
Letters from the East
A woman returns to her native Estonia to unravel the complex mysteries of her family's past. Set in 1989, against the background of the Baltic territory's struggle for peace and independence from the Soviet Union.
Release Date1996-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Hornblower: Retribution
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Release Date2001-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count38
The Great Pony Raid
Wild pony rustling on Dartmoor.
Release Date1968-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count2