David Hare
Know for: Writing
Born: 1947-06-05
Place of birth: St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, UK
Also know as:
Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012)
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North...
Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy (2022)
Ralph Fiennes is joined in dress rehearsals as he discusses his involvement in and the themes relating to David Hare’s brand-new play Straight...
Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing (2001)
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...
The Devil's Legacy (1962)
British horror short from 1962.
Alan Clarke: His Own Man (2000)
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...
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
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...
Wall (2017)
Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine.
Via Dolorosa (2000)
In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening...
Art, Truth and Politics (2006)
Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and...
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (2016)
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
The Hours (2002)
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by...
Damage (1992)
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
The Reader (2008)
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...
Plenty (1985)
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Page Eight (2011)
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Page Eight (2011)
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Strapless (1989)
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her...
The Designated Mourner (1997)
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...
Wetherby (1985)
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...
Wetherby (1985)
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...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2002)
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...
The Secret Rapture (1993)
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic...
Turks & Caicos (2014)
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...
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment....
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment....
Turks & Caicos (2014)
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...
National Theatre Live: Skylight (2014)
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and...
Brassneck (1975)
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...
Beat the Devil (2021)
Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was...
Beat the Devil (2021)
Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was...
Strapless (1989)
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her...
My Zinc Bed (2008)
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
The Absence of War (1995)
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones...
Heading Home (1991)
The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.
Saigon: Year Of The Cat (1983)
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...
Knuckle (1975)
Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.
Dreams of Leaving (1980)
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...
Dreams of Leaving (1980)
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...
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2015)
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of...
Denial (2016)
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a...
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy (2022)
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...
National Theatre Live: Skylight (2014)
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and...
Getsemani (2011)
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...
The White Crow (2018)
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...
Paris by Night (1989)
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...
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House (2017)
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...
Licking Hitler (1978)
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...
Licking Hitler (1978)
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...
The Designated Mourner (1997)
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...
Saigon: Year Of The Cat (1983)
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...
Paris by Night (1989)
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...
Man Above Men (1973)
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...
Via Dolorosa (2000)
In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening...
Plenty (1985)
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running (2019)
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...
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave (2017)
In her garden in the Home Counties, leave-vote Eleanor wonders why the Brexit vote hasn’t made her happier.