Prick Up Your Ears

Directed by Stephen Frears
R
1987    1h 51mDrama, Biography
7.192%79%
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

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Cast of Prick Up Your Ears

  • Gary OldmanJoe Orton
  • Alfred MolinaKenneth Halliwell
  • Vanessa RedgravePeggy Ramsay
  • Wallace ShawnJohn Lahr
  • Lindsay DuncanAnthea Lahr
  • Julie WaltersElsie Orton
  • James GrantWilliam Orton
  • Frances BarberLeonie Orton
  • Janet DaleMrs Sugden
  • Dave AtkinsMr Sugden
  • Margaret TyzackMadame Lambert
  • Eric RichardEducation Officer
  • William JobRADA Chairman
  • Rosalind KnightRADA Judge
  • Angus MacKayRADA Judge
  • Linda SpurrierRADA Instructor
  • Charlotte WodehouseJanet
  • Helena MichellOrton's Friend
  • Sean PertweeOrton's Friend
  • Liam De StaicBrickie
  • Charles McKeownMr Cunliffe
  • Selina CadellMiss Battersby
  • Bert ParnabyMagistrate
  • Antony CarrickCounsel
  • Neil DudgeonPoliceman
  • Richard WilsonPsychiatrist
  • Christopher GuineePublisher
  • Stevan RimkusKenneth
  • Michael MüllerBBC Actor 1
  • Anthony DouseBBC Actor 2
  • John KaneDirector
  • Steven MackintoshSimon Ward
  • Garry CooperActor 1 – Mr Sloane
  • Roger Lloyd PackActor 2
  • Joanne ConnellyStage Manager
  • John MoffattWigmaker
  • Philippa DaviesPeggy Ramsey's Secretary
  • David CardyBrian Epstein
  • Julie LegrandGallery Owner
  • Noel DavisPhilip
  • Jane BlackburnWoman in Gallery 1
  • Stella RichmanWoman in Gallery 2
  • Neville PhillipsMan in Gallery
  • Jonny PhillipsYouth Outside Lavatory
  • Richard IresonMan Outside Lavatory
  • Ahmed ElgheurMoroccan Boy 1
  • Moktar DagmouniMoroccan Boy 2
  • Sian ThomasMarilyn Orton
  • Stephen BillGeorge Barnett
  • Karl JohnsonDouglas Orton
  • David BradleyUndertaker
  • Simon AdamsUndertaker's Boy
  • James DugganLabourer
  • Max Stafford-ClarkAwards Chairman
  • Mark BrignalBeatles Chauffeur
  • Joan SandersonAnthea's Mother
  • Neville SmithPolice Inspector
  • Spencer LeighConstable
  • John SalthouseChauffeur
  • Robin HooperMortuary Attendant
  • Derek JarmanPatrick Proktor (uncredited)
  • Derek LyonsLibrary Patron (uncredited)
  • Stephen FrearsDirector
  • John LahrWriter
  • Alan BennettWriter
  • Andrew BrownProducer

Prick Up Your Ears Ratings & Reviews

  • Charles LondonMarch 25, 2025
    Let's see, a true story with salacious sex, insane jealousy, and a psychotic murder/suicide - about a 1960's pop-culture playwright/novelist/screenwriter with connections to The Beatles. Sounds good and is good. Be assured though, despite the dark-sounding nature of the plot, there is plenty of humor throughout the film. Superstar actors, Vanessa Redgrave and Gary Oldman, give excellent performances but it's much-less-known Alfred Molina that steals the show as Joe Orton's under-appreciated, over-abused, and emotionally-ill friend/lover/collaborator.

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