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RUTH RENDELL / BARBARA VINE TV & FILM ADAPTATIONS
FILM
TV
YEAR
RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES (TVS/Meridian)
CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD STORIES
George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft
P
A
R
T
S
BOOK
YEAR

SOURCE/OWN
N=Novel
S=Short
NLA=Novella
D=DVD V=VHS
1987 Wolf to the Slaughter 4 1967 N
1988 A Guilty Thing Surprised 3 1970 N
1988 Shake Hands Forever 3 1975 N
1988 No Crying He Makes (Ginger and the Kingsmarkham Chalk Circle)
1 1979 S
1989 No More Dying Then 3 1971 N
1989 A Sleeping Life 3 1978 N
1989 The Veiled One 1 1988 N
1990 Some Lie and Some Die 3 1973 N
1990 The Best Man to Die 3 1969 N
1990 An Unkindness of Ravens 2 1985 N
1990 Put on by Cunning 1 1981 N
1991 A New Lease of Death 3 1967 N
1991 Murder Being Once Done 3 1972 N
1991 From Doon with Death 2 1964 N
1991 Means of Evil 2 1979 S
1991 Achilles Heel 1 1979 S
1992 The Speaker of Mandarin 3 1983 N
1992 The Mouse in the Corner (Blood Lines)
3 1995 S
1992 An Unwanted Woman 2 1991 S
1992 Kissing the Gunner's Daughter 4 1992 N
1996 Simisola 3 1994 N
1998 Road Rage 2 1997 N
2000 Harm Done 1 1998 N

RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES (TVS/Meridian)
PSYCHOLOGICAL MYSTERIES



1992 Talking to Strange Men
John Duttine, Mel Martin
1 1980 N/D
1994 Master of the Moor
Colin Firth, George Costigan
3 1982 N/D
1995 Vanity Dies Hard
Peter Egan, Leslie Phillips
3 1965 N/D
1995 The Strawberry Tree
Lisa Harrow, Simon Ward
2 1995 S
1996 Heartstones
Anthony Andrews
1 1987 NLA
1996 A Dark Blue Perfume
Susannah York, John Castle
1 1978 S/D
1996 The Secret House of Death
Amanda Redman
2 1968 N/D
1996 A Case of Coincidence
Keith Barron, Ronald Pickup
2 1982 S/D
1997 The Double
Jason Flemyng
1 1976 S/D
1997 Bribery & Corruption
James D'Arcy, Tim Woodward
2 1978 S/D
1997 Thornapple
Susan Penhaligon
1 1982 S
1997 May and June
Phoebe Nicholls, Christine Kavanagh
2 1982 S/D
1997 Front Seat
Janet Suzman, Edward Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Joyce Redman
1 1982 S/D
1998 Going Wrong
James Callis
3 1990 N/D
1998 You Can't Be Too Careful!
Serena Evans, Simon Chandler
1 1976 S/D
1998 The Orchard Walls
Sylvia Syms, Honeysuckle Weeks
1 1978 S/D
1999 The Lake of Darkness
Jerome Flynn, Cal Macaninch
1 1980 N/D
1999 The Fallen Curtain
Barbara Ewing
1 1976 S/D

RUTH RENDELL - OTHER FILMS & TV



1976 One Across Two Down
(Diary of the Dead)
Dir: Arvin Brown
1 1971 N/V
1981
A Glowing Future
Joanne Pettet, John Beck (Anglia TV: Tales of the Unexpected)
1
1982
S
1985
People Don't Do Such Things
Arthur Hill, Samantha Eggar (Anglia TV: Tales of the Unexpected)
1
1976
S
1986 A Judgement in Stone
(The Housekeeper)
Rita Tushingham
1 1977 N
1988 The Lake of Darkness
(Dead Lucky)

Nicholas Farrell, Philip Davis (BBC)
1 1980 N
1988 The Face of Trespass
(An Affair in Mind)

Stephen Dillane, Amanda Donohoe (BBC)
1 1974 N
1989 To Fear a Painted Devil
(La Danse de Salome / Le Masque)

Dir: Jacques Ordines
1 1965 N
1989 The Tree of Hands
Lauren Bacall, Peter Firth (Granada)
1 1984 N
1991 A Demon In My View
(Der Mann Nebenan)

Anthony Perkins, Sophie Ward, Stratford Johns
1 1976 N/V
1995 A Judgement in Stone
(La Ceremonie)

Dir: Claude Chabrol
1 1977 N
1997 Live Flesh
(Carne Tremula)

Dir: Pedro Almodovar
1 1986 N
2001 The Tree of Hands
(Betty Fisher et autres histoires)

Dir: Claude Miller
1 1984 N
2004 The Bridesmaid
(La Demoiselle d'honneur)
 
Dir: Claude Chabrol
1 1989 N
2003 A Sight for Sore Eyes
(Inquiétudes)

Dir: Giles Bourdos
1
1998 N/D
2012 Thirteen Steps Down
Luke Treadaway, Geraldine James (ITV)
2 2004 N/D
2014
Tigerlily's Orchids
(Valentin Valentin)
Dir: Pascal Thomas
Vincent Rottiers
1
2010
N
2014 The New Girlfriend
(Une Nouvelle Amie)
Dir: Francois Ozon
1
1978
S

BARBARA VINE



1992 A Fatal Inversion
Douglas Hodge, Jeremy Northam (BBC)
3 1987 N/D
1993 Gallowglass
Michael Sheen, Paul Rhys (BBC)
3 1990 N/D
1994 A Dark Adapted Eye
Helena Bonham Carter, Celia Imrie (BBC)
1 1986 N/D
2002 No Night Is Too Long
Lee Williams, Marc Warren (BBC)
1 1994 N/D

CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD STORIES NOT FILMED




Old Wives' Tales
1979 S

When the Wedding Was Over
1979 S

Blood Lines
1995 S

The Babes in theWood
2002 N

End In Tears
2005 N

Not In the Flesh
2007 N

The Monster In The Box
2009 N

The Vault
2011 N

No Man's Nightingale

2013
N

PSYCHOLOGICAL MYSTERIES NOT FILMED




Make Death Love Me
1979 N

The Killing Doll
1984 N

The Crocodile Bird
1993 N

The Keys to the Street
1996 N

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
2001 N

The Rottweiller
2003 N

The Water's Lovely
2006 N

The Thief
2006 NV

Portobello
2008 N

The Saint Zita Society
2012 N

The Girl Next Door

2014
N

Dark Corners

2015
N

plus many short stories


S

BARBARA VINE NOT FILMED




The House of Stairs
1988 N

King Solomon's Carpet
1991 N

Asta's Book
1993 N

The Brimstone Wedding
1995 N

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
1998 N

Grasshopper
2000 N

The Blood Doctor
2002 N

The Minotaur
2005 N

The Birthday Present
2008 N

The Child's Child
2012 N