John Wood
18 titles
Filmography
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Blue Heelers
The series primarily focuses on the daily lives of Victorian police officers working at a police station in the fictional small town of Mount Thomas.

Finders Keepers
(2015)Amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction. A true-life tragicomedy about fame, addiction, and family.

Uncovered
(1995)An art restorer unravels a deadly chess game linked to past killings as she investigates a knight's mysterious death depicted in a painting.

Lady Jane
(1986)The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister marries off his son, Guildford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. Once sat atop the throne, the young couple faces the dangers that come with great power.

WarGames
(1983)Would you like to play a game? Computer hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) can break the most intricate secret codes and master even the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportions -- World War III. Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon!

Jumpin' Jack Flash
(1986)A bank clerk mysteriously finds herself in electronic communication with a spy trapped in Europe - soon a host of shady espionage operatives converge on the clerk as she engineers an overseas escape!

Somebody Killed Her Husband
(1978)After someone murders her husband, Jenny Moore and her lover, Jerry Green, must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Orlando
(1992)Sally Potter’s fearless adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s supposedly unfilmable book, Orlando was nine years in the making. This restlessly rule-bending, gender fluid, time-traveling epic—starring a dazzling Tilda Swinton on typically shape-shifting form—remains an unmatched feat of queer filmmaking.

The Last Days of Pompeii
(1935)
Ladyhawke
(1985)A medieval pickpocket who escapes the noose becomes indebted to a shapeshifting knight and his star-crossed lover on a revenge quest to kill a bishop.

Sabrina
(1995)An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Metroland
(1997)After disappearing for ten years Toni suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's quiet, peaceful, predictable life.

Stolen Face
(1952)In an attempt to reconstruct the woman who left him, a plastic surgeon performs an extreme makeover on a prison inmate with disastrous consequences.

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
(2023)Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a woman is put through hell by a ruthless exorcist trying to save her soul.

Citizen X
(1995)A Russian police detective faces almost insurmountable odds in his search for the most savage serial killer of modern times.

The Purple Rose of Cairo
(1985)A comedy-fantasy about a Depression-era movie fan/waitress whose day-to-day existence is enlivened when her latest idol walks right off the screen and into her life!

The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
(2017)As Blake and Jean prepare for their own wedding, they find themselves entangled in a murder, a missing persons case, and Blake's complicated past.

The Clothes in the Wardrobe
(1993)A wicked comedy set in Egypt and London in the late 1950s. Lili (exotic, rebellious, free-living and dangerously delightful) descends on deeply conservative Monica, who is frantically preparing for her daughter's wedding. Forming an unholy alliance with the groom's mother, Lili prevents a disastrous marriage by causing a scandal that suburbia will never forget.