Anthony Hopkins: The Other Films Test | People Themed

Answer: Legends of the Fall

The movie followed the life of the retired Colonel and his three sons, covering love, loss, bravery and betrayal. Anthony Hopkins played Col. William Ludlow, who despised the way that his government had treated Native American Indians. His sons were played by Aiden Quinn, Brad Pitt and Henry Thomas.

This movie contained some beautiful sweeping views that were actually filmed in Alberta, Canada.

Answer: When Eight Bells Toll

This 1971 movie was about a British agent sent on a mission to find a hijacked cargo ship laden with bullion. The ship was the "Nantesville", which Calvert tracked to Torbay, Scotland. It was an adaptation of a novel by Alistair MacLean. Alistar MacLean wrote 29 successful novels, including "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare". MacLean died in 1987.

Answer: Richard the Lionheart

Anthony Hopkins played Richard the Lionheart in "The Lion in Winter" in 1968, the film won three Oscars, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Katharine Hepburn. Starring Peter O'Toole as Henry II, the story was about naming a successor to the throne.

Henry invited his sons to court over the Christmas period to make a decision. As all his sons desired the throne this led to lies and treachery as all vied for the crown.

Answer: William Bligh

William Bligh was born near Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England in 1754. He joined the Navy at seven years old. It was his cruelty that led to the mutiny. The Bounty mutineers set up a colony on The Pitcairns and went on to murder each other (all but one of course).

Answer: The Girl From Petrovka

An American reporter and a Russian ballerina fell in love but the KGB had other ideas, in this movie adapted from the novel by George Feifer. This film starred Goldie Hawn and Hal Holbrook in the leading roles. Hopkins has said that this was his least favourite part and claims to never have watched it.

Answer: Audrey Rose

This Robert Wise supernatural chiller starred Anthony Hopkins, who played a bereaved father who believed his daughter had been reincarnated into a baby girl born at the exact time his daughter died. Robert Wise went on to direct "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" in 1979.

Answer: Magic

Corky suffered at the hands of Fats, his evil dummy that he could hear on and off stage. Whether he really was alive or the product of a psychotic break was not made clear. Jack Nicholson was origially offered this role but refused it because he would have to wear a hairpiece throughout filming. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough.

Answer: Dracula

Hopkins played the Dutch Doctor, Van Helsing or "the vampire hunter" in that colourful adaptation of Bram Stoker's masterpiece. The earnings from that movie helped to save Francis Ford Coppola's studio, Zoetrope, from bankruptcy. This was the most commercially successful adaptation of the book by Bram Stoker, as of 2009. The plot followed Dracula to London, in pursuit of a woman, Mina, who he believed to be the reincarnation of his wife and only true love. Dracula bit a close friend of Mina's and, as a physician, Van Helsing was called in to help. Van Helsing recognised the girl as undead and the search for Dracula began.

Answer: Spy

This was the story of Anthony Blunt of the notorious "Fourth Man" British/Russian spy scandal in the nineteen fifties (although it was not made public until 1979). Hopkins played the role of Guy Burgess who was Blunt's co-conspirator. Ian Richardson played the role of the title character.

Answer: The Bunker

The US release of the movie was cut down to just 90 minutes from the original 254 minutes. The movie centred around the last weeks of Adolf Hitler's life in and around his bunker in Berlin. The role landed Hopkins an Emmy award for lead actor.