'Uriah Heep' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
David Copperfield (2009)
Actors:
Jean-Paul Muel (actor),
Beppe Chierici (actor),
Charles Dickens (writer),
Gianmarco Tognazzi (actor),
Mauro Bonanni (editor),
Stefano Dionisi (actor),
Paolo Vivaldi (composer),
Erasmo Colucci (miscellaneous crew),
Maya Sansa (actress),
Angelo Rizzoli Jr. (producer),
Sagamore Stévenin (actor),
Giorgio Pasotti (actor),
Lenka Termerová (actress),
Paolo Lombardi (actor),
Chiara Conti (actress),
Genres:
Drama,
David Copperfield (2000)
Actors:
Alec McCowen (actor),
Morgan O'Sullivan (producer),
Sally Field (actress),
Dudley Sutton (actor),
Paul Bettany (actor),
Robert Halmi Jr. (producer),
Eileen Atkins (actress),
Michael Richards (actor),
Nigel Davenport (actor),
Murray Melvin (actor),
Edward Hardwicke (actor),
Anthony Andrews (actor),
Freddie Jones (actor),
Charles Dickens (writer),
Vernon Dobtcheff (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
Quotes:
David Copperfield: That is what he is, this fellow; a cold blooded, calculation fortune hunter, without honour, scruple, or mercy.::Mr. Edward Murdstone: [overturns the table they are sitting at] Be silent!::David Copperfield: I have been silent too long! I will be silent no more!::Miss Jane Murdstone: Edward... come away::Mr. Edward Murdstone: Hold your tounge!::David Copperfield: He bullied, and harried my poor, weak mother into her grave!::Mr. Edward Murdstone: Yes, she was weak. But it was not I who preyed upon her weakness, it was here own SON, who drained her of the strenght he needed with his wild behaviour and importunate demands!::David Copperfield: You killed her, as deliberately, and as pitilessly, as if you had thrust a knife into her heart!::Mr. Edward Murdstone: Repeat that in england, sir! Repeat that in a place, where you cant evade the laws of slander!::David Copperfield: I'll do better than that; I'll write it!
David Copperfield (1999)
Actors:
Dawn French (actress),
Imelda Staunton (actress),
Emilia Fox (actress),
Paul Whitehouse (actor),
Daniel Radcliffe (actor),
Maggie Smith (actress),
Alun Armstrong (actor),
Tom Wilkinson (actor),
Oliver Ford Davies (actor),
Ian McNeice (actor),
Bob Hoskins (actor),
Ian McKellen (actor),
Michael Elphick (actor),
Rebecca Eaton (producer),
Zoë Wanamaker (actress),
Plot: David Copperfield lives a nearly idyllic existence with his beautiful mother Clara and their housekeeper Peggotty. His life changes forever when his mother re-marries. Mr. Murdstone is a no-nonsense businessman and a strict disciplinarian who believes in corporal punishment. David is soon sent to a strict boarding school but when his mother dies, his stepfather sends him to London to work in a foul smelling factory. He forms a close friendship with Mr. Micawber and moves in with the man and his loving family but as the Micawbers are forced by circumstance to relocate, he seeks out his aunt Betsey Trotwood. She sends him to fine school and he lodges with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter Agnes. As he grows older David is apprenticed to a law firm where he soon meets the senior partner's daughter, Dora. Life's challenges continue to confront him but with the help of friends and family, he overcomes adversity including his aunt's loss of her savings, the death of his wife and the satisfaction of seeing the conniving Uriah Heep sent to a penal colony.
Keywords: 19th-century, abusive-stepfather, aunt-nephew-relationship, author, baby, based-on-novel, bath, beating, benefactor, betrayal
Genres:
Drama,
Quotes:
Barkis: [repeated] Barkis is willin'!
Murdstone: [to David] You will defy me no further, boy! You will learn!
Murdstone: This boy, you should know, Miss Trotwood, has a sullen, rebellious spirit, a violent temper and an intractable disposition.::Miss Murdstone: Of all the boys in the world, this is the worst boy.::Betsey Trotwood: Strong, Miss Murdstone.::Miss Murdstone: But not at all too strong for the situation.::Betsey Trotwood: Indeed? Well, sir?::Murdstone: I placed this boy in a respectable business. He ran away from it. The facts, I propose, speak for themselves.::Betsey Trotwood: About this respectable business, a blacking factory, I believe. If he had been your own boy, you would have put him to it just the same, I suppose.::Murdstone: I had my own opinion. This is the best way of bringing up this particular boy. I act on them and I say no more about them.::Betsey Trotwood: I see. What else do you have to say?::Murdstone: Merely this: I have come to take my stepson back. I will deal with him as I think right and dispose of him as I think proper. If you seek to impede me in any way, if you step between us now, you do so forever.::Betsey Trotwood: What does the boy say? Are you ready to go, David?::Young David Copperfield: Please don't make me leave you, Aunt. They made my Mama very unhappy and they never cared for me. I want to stay here with you and Mr. Dick.::Betsey Trotwood: Mr. Dick, what shall I do with this child?::Mr. Dick: I'd have him measured for a suit of clothes directly.::Betsey Trotwood: Mr. Dick, give me your hand. [She shakes his hand] For your common sense is invaluable. [Takes David in her arms] I'll take my chance with the boy. If he is all you say he is, I can at least do as much for him as you have done. But I don't believe a word of it!::Murdstone: [Standing up angrily] Miss Trotwood, if you were a gentleman...::Betsey Trotwood: BAH! Stuff and nonsense! Don't talk to me!::Miss Murdstone: How exquisitely polite. Overpowering, really.::Betsey Trotwood: [to Murdstone, ignoring Jane] You think I don't know what kind of life you've led this child's mother? It was a woeful day when you first appeared, smirking, making great eyes at her, so you wouldn't say "Boo!" to a ghost!::Miss Murdstone: I've never heard anything to elegant.::Betsey Trotwood: [Still ignoring Jane] And when you'd made quite sure of the poor little thing, you began to train her and break her. Like a caged bird, wearing her life away and teaching her to sing your notes.::Miss Murdstone: 'Tis either insanity or intoxication.::Betsey Trotwood: [Still ignoring Jane] You broke her heart, then punished the boy, because of your own guilt! There's the truth for your comfort, and you and your instrument may make the most of it!::Miss Murdstone: May I inquire whom you are referring to as an instrument?::Betsey Trotwood: Good day, sir! And Goodbye! [Murdstone leaves without a word]
Betsey Trotwood: [to Jane Murdstone] Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and I'll knock your bonnet off. And tread upon it!
Murdstone: David, if I have an obstenent dog or horse to deal with, what do you think I do? I beat him. I make him wince and smart. I say to myself, "I'll conquer that fellow, and even if it costs him every drop of blood he has, I'll do it." [Grasps David firmly] Do we understand each other? [David nods] Good. [Strokes David's head] Now wash your face and come downstairs directly.
Miss Murdstone: Generally speaking, I don't like boys.
Murdstone: What name did you just call your mistress?::Peggotty: [Coldly] Mrs Copperfield, same as always, sir.::Murdstone: But she has a new name now: Murdstone. Oblige me by remembering that in future.
Betsey Trotwood: I don't allow anybody to ride over this turf. I make no exceptions.::Miss Murdstone: Your regulation is rather awkward to strangers.
David Copperfield (1969)
Actors:
Emlyn Williams (actor),
Megs Jenkins (actress),
Ralph Richardson (actor),
Liam Redmond (actor),
Corin Redgrave (actor),
George Woodbridge (actor),
Sinéad Cusack (actress),
Michael Redgrave (actor),
Richard Attenborough (actor),
Ron Moody (actor),
James Hayter (actor),
Laurence Olivier (actor),
Cyril Cusack (actor),
Charles Dickens (writer),
Anna Massey (actress),
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: Charles Dickens' Immortal Story of a Young Man's Journey to Maturity
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)
Actors:
Elizabeth Allan (actress),
Roland Young (actor),
Hugh Williams (actor),
Arthur Treacher (actor),
Lewis Stone (actor),
Ivan F. Simpson (actor),
W.C. Fields (actor),
Harry Beresford (actor),
Herbert Mundin (actor),
Lionel Barrymore (actor),
Lionel Belmore (actor),
Basil Rathbone (actor),
E.E. Clive (actor),
Yorke Sherwood (actor),
Jean Cadell (actress),
Plot: When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a living. When David escapes to his aunt Betsey his life starts to get better.
Keywords: abusive-stepfather, alcoholic, ampersand-in-title, aunt, author, based-on-novel, blackmail, boy, character-name-in-title, charles-dickens
Genres:
Adventure,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: Metro·Goldwyn·Mayer's Greatest Motion Picture
Quotes:
Mr. Micawber: [to young Copperfield] Boy, as I have frequently had occasion to observe, "When the stomach is empty, the spirits are low."
Aunt Betsy Trotwood: Now that there's a child coming, what will you call your girl?::Mrs. Clara Copperfield: Perhaps it will be a boy.::Aunt Betsy Trotwood: Don't contradict. I have a pre-sentiment that it will be a girl. And I shall be her godmother. She shall be christened Betsy Trotwood Copperfield. She must be well brought up, I shall see to that. Far better than my impractical nephew would have done.::Mrs. Clara Copperfield: Mr. Copperfield has been dead only six months. It is cruel of you to speak unkindly of him to me.
Mrs. Clara Copperfield: What have you got against Mr Murdstone?::Nurse Peggotty: [unimpressed at the meer mention of his name] Huh!::Mrs. Clara Copperfield: Is it to be hinted at that I am lacking in affection for my precious treasure? The dearest little fellow that ever was!::Nurse Peggotty: Nobody ever went an hinted no such thing.::Mrs. Clara Copperfield: Am I a naughty mama to you, Davy? Am I a nasty and selfish bad mama? I don't love you at all do I::David Copperfield as a child: [tearful] Yes you do...::Nurse Peggotty: [the tearful three embrace] I never meant to hurt you, m'am. I never meant to.
Barkis: No sweethearts I believe?::David Copperfield as a child: What?::Barkis: No person courting?::David Copperfield as a child: Oh. No, no.::Barkis: Ahhh. Well, when you is talking to her private, perhaps you'd tell her that Barkis is willing.::David Copperfield as a child: That Barkis is willing. Is that all the message?::Barkis: Well, y... y... yes. Barkis is willing.::David Copperfield as a child: Very well, Mr Barkis. I'll tell her.
Mr. Micawber: [Coming to David's rescue] Gentlemen!... Gentlemen!... Gentlemen!... Gentlemen!... In the aggregate I judge you to be a highly distasteful collection. And to detail: cowardly, uncouth, and deserving of merciless chastisement. You'll oblige me by removing your unsavory persons from my immediate vicinity. In short: GET OUT!
Mr. Micawber: Copperfield, you perceive before you, the shattered fragments of a temple once call Man. The blossom is blighted. The leaf is withered. The God of Day goes down upon the dreary scene. In short, I am forever floored.
David Copperfield as a child: But why must I go away, Aunt Betsey? I want to stay with you, and Mr. Dick.::Aunt Betsy Trotwood: But you have to be educated, David, and take your place in the world. There isn't a finer school in Canterbury than Dr. Strong's. You must make us proud, David. Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. Avoid these three vices, and I can always be hopeful of you.
Dan Peggotty: [Peggotty sits down with David Copperfield to tell him the fate of Emily, who had run off with Steerforth] Master Davy... It was in Naples, by the sea. There he wearied of her, and left her. When she knowed she was abandoned, her heart died in her. That snake - his servant - insulted her. Told her he'd been left there by his master to marry her. Something cast off for a servant's use. She tried to die by her own hand. So he locked her up, imprisoned her. And she, my poor lass, when night come, she forced a window and escaped to the shore.::Dan Peggotty: [Peggotty continues talking, as scene changes to show Emily struggling along a rocky, windswept shore] She fought herself home. Wandering on the Yarmouth beach, she stumbled on calling out for us who loved her. Thinking that here was the old boat, and there was her dear friends. When morning broke, they found her. By God's mercy, they took her in and cared for her.::Dan Peggotty: [Scene changes back to Peggotty and Copperfield, as Peggotty continues] All night long, we've been together. Her arms around my neck, and her head laid here. We knows full well we can put our trust in one another forevermore.
Mrs. Gummidge: I'm a lone, lorn creature. And everything goes contrary with me.
Mr. Murdstone: If I have an obstinate horse or a dog to deal with what do you think I'd do?::David Copperfield as a child: I don't know.::Mr. Murdstone: I'd beat him. I'd make him wince and smart. I say to myself, "I'll conquer that fellow". And if it were to cost him all the blood he had, I'd do it.
David Copperfield (1922)
Actors:
Rasmus Christiansen (actor),
Peter Malberg (actor),
Robert Schmidt (actor),
Charles Wilken (actor),
Charles Dickens (writer),
A.W. Sandberg (director),
Marie Dinesen (actress),
Margarete Schlegel (actress),
Poul Reumert (actor),
Karen Caspersen (actress),
Mathilde Nielsen (actress),
Laurids Skands (writer),
Karen Winther (actress),
Martin Herzberg (actor),
Karina Bell (actress),
Genres:
Drama,