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Nigel Davenport has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s.
Padre Padrone
1977
Drama

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Dir. Saul Bass · With Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
Dir. Thom Eberhardt · With Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Dir. Bruce Malmuth · With Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer

as Major Jack Downing
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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Dir. Douglas Hickox · With Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, John Mills

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Dir. Derek Jarman · With Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper