Robin and Marian


12:00 pm - 2:10 pm, Saturday, January 24 on Film4 +1 (47)

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Outlaw Robin Hood returns to England after the Crusades and goes in search of his beloved Marian, who is now an abbess, and crosses swords once again with old enemy the Sheriff of Nottingham. Medieval adventure, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Nicol Williamson, Ronnie Barker, Denholm Elliott and Richard Harris


1976 HD subtitles
Adventure Historical/Period Drama Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Sean Connery (Actor) .. Robin Hood
Audrey Hepburn (Actor) .. Maid Marian
Robert Shaw (Actor) .. Sheriff of Nottingham
Nicol Williamson (Actor) .. Little John
Ronnie Barker (Actor) .. Friar Tuck
Denholm Elliott (Actor) .. Will Scarlett
Richard Harris (Actor) .. King Richard
Kenneth Haigh (Actor) .. Sir Ranulf
Ian Holm (Actor) .. King John
Richard Lester (Director)

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Sean Connery (Actor) .. Robin Hood
Born: August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Best Known For: Being the first big-screen James Bond.
Early-life: Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh on August 25, 1930. He first worked as a milkman and coffin polisher before joining the Navy at 16. During his spell in the service he had two tattoos etched on his right arm; he was eventually forced to leave after developing a stomach ulcer. At 19, he made ends meet as an artist's model at Edinburgh's School of Art. He also competed in the Mr Universe body-building competition in 1953.
Career: While still a bodybuilder, Sean was offered the chance to appear in a West End production of South Pacific, which kick-started his acting career. His film debut came in 1955's Lilacs in the Spring, but he didn't become a major star until he appeared as Bond in 1962's Dr No. It remains his most famous role, despite hits including The Man Who Would Be King, Rising Sun, A Bridge Too Far, Time Bandits, Highlander, The Rock, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Entrapment. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Untouchables in 1987.
Quote: "I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character like that does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek other roles."
Trivia: He was knighted in 2000.
Audrey Hepburn (Actor) .. Maid Marian
Born: May 04, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium
Best Known For: Being a Hollywood actress and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Early-life: Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium to a British father, Joseph, and an Austrian mother, Anna. Audrey spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She moved to London in 1948 to study ballet and perform as a chorus girl in West End musicals. In the early 1950s, she had small parts in a number of British films, including The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and played the lead role in the original 1951 Broadway production of Gigi. Audrey's first starring role in a Hollyood film was opposite Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she won an Academy Award. The same year, she won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for Ondine.
Career: Hepburn went on to star in a number of successful films, including Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Children's Hour (1961), Charade (1963) and My Fair Lady (1964). She picked up Academy Award nominations for her roles in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967). Hepburn acted only occasionally after 1967 after deciding to devote more time to her family. Her last film role was a cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg's Always (1988). In 1989, she was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and spent the reminder of her life helping children in poor nations. In November 1992, Hepburn was diagnosed with a rare form of abdominal cancer. She died at her home in Switzerland on January 20, 1993. She was 63. She was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1993 Academy Awards.
Quote: "The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Trivia: Hepburn was fluent in English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and German. She was very self-conscious about her size-10 feet.
Robert Shaw (Actor) .. Sheriff of Nottingham
Nicol Williamson (Actor) .. Little John
Ronnie Barker (Actor) .. Friar Tuck
Born: September 25, 1929 in Bedford
Best Known For: Porridge and The Two Ronnies.
Early-life: Ronald William George Barker was born in Bedfordshire on September 25, 1929. He developed a love of theatre as a child when he attended plays with his family, and frequently waited outside stage doors to collect autographs. He attended Donnington Junior School and then the City of Oxford High School for Boys. After leaving school, he trained as an architect but gave it up after six months. Harbouring dreams of becoming an actor, he worked in amateur dramatics for 18 months while employed as a clerk in a bank.
Career: Barker joined the Oxford Playhouse in 1951 and other theatrical work in the West End followed. His theatrical success led to radio work, and he featured in 300 episodes of radio sitcom The Navy Lark, which ran from 1959 to 1977. His big break on TV came in the late 1960s when he appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett and John Cleese on The Frost Report. Barker went on to star in Porridge, Open All Hours, and, with Ronnie Corbett, formed one of the best-loved double acts of the 1970s and 1980s as The Two Ronnies. He also appeared with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in the film Robin and Marian, a bleak version of the Robin Hood legend. Barker retired from acting in 1987 to run an antiques business, but returned briefly to star as Winston Churchill's butler in acclaimed 2002 TV movie The Gathering Storm, and alongside Maggie Smith in My House in Umbria in 2003. He died of heart failure at a hospice in Oxfordshire on October 3, 2005, at the age of 76.
Quote: "The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on."
Trivia: He was awarded an OBE in 1978.
Denholm Elliott (Actor) .. Will Scarlett
Born: May 31, 1922 in London
Best Known For: Playing eccentric English gentlemen.
Early-life: Denholm Mitchell Elliott was born in London on May 31, 1922. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) but was asked to leave after only one term. While flying in a Halifax bomber during the Second World War in 1942, his aircraft was hit by flak and ditched in the North Sea near Germany. He spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia.
Career: Elliott made his film debut in Dear Mr Prohack (1949) and went on to play a wide range of parts, usually in a supporting role. He won Bafta TV awards for BBC2 Playhouse (1974), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Blade on the Feather (1980). For his work on the big screen, he won Bafta film awards for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1985), A Room with a View (1985) and Defence of the Realm (1986). Other notable credits included the films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and the TV miniseries Codename: Kyril (1988) and Bangkok Hilton (1989). He died at his home in Spain on October 6, 1992 at the age of 70.
Quote: "I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre, it takes you out of the TV eye and people are glad to see you back again."
Trivia: Elliott was nominated for an Academy Award for A Room with a View and lost out to fellow Brit Michael Caine (Hannah and her Sisters).
Richard Harris (Actor) .. King Richard
Born: October 01, 1930 in Limerick City
Best Known For: A distinguished film and stage career.
Early-life: Richard St John Harris was born in Limerick City on October 1, 1930, the youngest of nine children from a middle-class, Roman Catholic family. He was a talented sportsman, representing Munster on several occasions until contracting TB ended his career. Richard went on to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He went on to join Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and soon began getting roles in various West End stage productions.
Career: Harris made his film debut in the 1958 British comedy Alive and Kicking. Other roles followed in The Guns of Navarone and Mutiny on the Bounty before his first lead role came in 1963's This Sporting Life. Other movies followed, including The Heroes of Telemark, Major Dundee, Camelot, A Man Called Horse, The Cassandra Crossing and The Wild Geese. He appeared in a number of forgettable productions during the 1980s but returned to form in the 1990s with The Field, Patriot Games and Unforgiven. His later films included Gladiator and two Harry Potter films. He died in London on October 25, 2002, at the age of 72, following a battle with Hodgkin's disease.
Quote: "I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties."
Trivia: Had three children with first wife Elizabeth Rees. A life-size sculpture of him as an 18-year-old squash player was unveiled by Russell Crowe in Kilkee, Co Clare, where Harris won a local cup four times in a row between 1948 and 1951.
Kenneth Haigh (Actor) .. Sir Ranulf
Ian Holm (Actor) .. King John
Born: September 12, 1931 in Goodmayes, Ilford
Best Known For: More than 40 years of acclaimed film and theatre roles.
Early-life: Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on September 12, 1931, in Goodmayes, Ilford. His father worked as a psychiatrist and superintendent at the local mental asylum. His brother Eric died of cancer in 1944. He attended Chigwell Grammar School, and became interested in acting after watching a production of Les Miserables, starring Charles Laughton. He began studying at Rada in 1950 and, after a year of National Service, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career: Holm's first professional appearance was as a spear carrier in a 1956 production of Othello. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was said to be the most likely successor to Laurence Olivier. His first memorable screen appearance came in 1968's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His most famous movies since include Alien, Chariots of Fire, Greystoke, Brazil, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Day After Tomorrow.
Quote: "I'm a small, stumpy guy who came into movies a bit late."
Trivia: He was awarded a CBE in 1990 and knighted in 1998.
Richard Lester (Director)

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