William Hoyland Movies

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

Directed by Mike Newell.

A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William...

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.

An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.

Directed by B.S. Johnson.

William Hoyland stars as a nameless protagonist who speaks to the camera in a fabricated language and, though the course of the film, transforms from...

Directed by B.S. Johnson.

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....