William Hoyland Movies

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructi...

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...

Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problem...

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.

William Hoyland stars as a nameless protagonist who speaks to the camera in a fabricated language and, though the course of the film, transforms from...

A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The p...

Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grassho...

An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is takin...

Directed by Mike Newell.

Directed by B.S. Johnson.

Directed by B.S. Johnson.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaig...

A woman searches for her children, who have been abducted by her ex-husband, a member of the German 'Red Liberation Front'.

A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of...

Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder...

Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, thei...