Diana Rigg Archives

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 28, 2001James Bond Film

The sixth James Bond film where Sean Connery was replaced by Australian model George Lazenby who had never acted before. Lazenby is a disliked Bond but that tends does stand in the way of the fact that this is a fine character-driven Bond film with some of the best action sequences of the series

Director: Peter Hunt

Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 October 20014 January 2022 by Roog

Theater of Blood (1973)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 5, 2000Mad Shakespearean Actor's Revenge

Following on from the success of the Dr Phibes films, Vincent Price is cast as a mad Shakespearean actor who employs comically grotesque deaths from Shakespeare's plays to kill his critics

Director: Douglas Hickox

Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, …

Category: Horror

5 November 20006 May 2020 by Roog

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 6, 2002Muppet Movie

The second of the Muppet films made when Jim Henson was alive and one of the best, this bubbles with a double level of sly grown-up humour that many of the later post Henson entries miss

Director: Jim Henson

Actors: Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin, Jack Warden, Peter Falk, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 200212 March 2026 by Roog

Snow White (1987)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 6, 2002Fairy-Tale

One of the better of Cannon Films cheap fairytale adaptations featuring a grandly over the top Diana Rigg as the Wicked Stepmother

Director: Michael Berz

Actors: Diana Rigg, Sarah Patterson, Nicola Stapleton, Billy Barty, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 20028 July 2021 by Roog

Mother Love (1989)

Rating: ★★

Dec 2, 2014Psychopathic Mother

There was undeniable shock value watching 1960s sex symbol Diana Rigg cast as a venomous middle-aged woman with murder on her mind. While this BBC mini-series won awards, you feel that a 1960s Hammer psycho-thriller would have conducted it in half the time

Director: Simon Langton

Actors: Diana Rigg, Fiona Gillies, James Wilby, David McCallum, …

Category: Horror

2 December 201423 May 2020 by Roog

Last Night in Soho (2021)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 27, 2021Ghosts of 1960s Soho

Edgar Wright creates a dazzlingly stylish recreation of 1960s London in a work with Thomasine McKenzie as a modern girl haunted by ghosts of the era’s dark underside

Director: Edgar Wright

Actors: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, …

Category: Horror

27 November 202118 December 2025 by Roog