Cast & creator
David Hare
Best known for The South Bank Show, Play for Today, Play for Today
59
film credits
15
television credits
14
1962–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (74)
Showing 74 of 74 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
Play for Today
Director
1970Play for Today
Writer
1970
Screen Two
Screenplay
1985Screen Two
Writer
1985Screen Two
Director
1985
The Reader
Screenplay
2008
Theatre Night
Theatre Play
1985
Collateral
Writer
2018Collateral
Executive Producer
2018Collateral
Creator
2018
Roadkill
Writer
2020Roadkill
Executive Producer
2020Roadkill
Creator
2020
Damage
Screenplay
1992
The Hours
Screenplay
2002Arthouse
Self
1997
The White Crow
Writer
2018
Page Eight
Director
2011Page Eight
Writer
2011
Denial
Screenplay
2016
Turks & Caicos
Director
2014Turks & Caicos
Writer
2014
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Self
2011
Salting the Battlefield
Director
2014Salting the Battlefield
Writer
2014
Licking Hitler
Director
1978Licking Hitler
Writer
1978
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Self
2012
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Self
2017
Brassneck
Writer
1975
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Director
2000
Teeth 'N' Smiles
Writer
2026
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
2000
Heading Home
Director
1991
Plenty
Screenplay
1985Plenty
Theatre Play
1985
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Theatre Play
2014National Theatre Live: Skylight
Writer
2014
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Writer
2022
My Zinc Bed
Writer
2008
Paris by Night
Director
1989Paris by Night
Writer
1989
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Writer
1983Saigon: Year of the Cat
Associate Producer
1983
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Adaptation
2016
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Screenplay
2015
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Self – Writer & Director
2020
National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running
Writer
2019
The Absence of War
Writer
1995
Wetherby
Director
1985Wetherby
Writer
1985
Man Above Men
Writer
1973
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Writer
2017
Dreams of Leaving
Writer
1980Dreams of Leaving
Director
1980
Beat the Devil
Writer
2021Beat the Devil
Director
2021
Strapless
Director
1989Strapless
Writer
1989
The Designated Mourner
Director
1997The Designated Mourner
Producer
1997Getsemani
Theatre Play
2011
Art, Truth and Politics
self
2005
Wall
Himself
2017
Knuckle
Theatre Play
1975
The Secret Rapture
Screenplay
1993
Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
Self
2001
The Heritage
Lawrence Morell
1962
Via Dolorosa
Himself
2000Via Dolorosa
Writer
2000Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House
Director
2017