Kentwell Hall As A Film and Television Location
Kentwell Hall has featured as a location for a number of film and TV productions. Some of the more notable examples include:
| Year | Title | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Witchfinder General | Starred Vincent Price as Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, along with Ian Ogilvy and Hilary Dwyer. |
| 1982 | The Woman In White | BBC TV serialisation of the Wilkie Collins novel, starring Ian Richardson, Diana Quick and Jenny Seagrove. |
| 1983 | No Excuses | ITV TV drama about a failing female rock star, starring Charlotte Cornwell and directed by Roy Battersby. |
| 1994 | Will's World: A Surfeit of Meate and Drynke | BBC TV production, part of a season of Shakespeare commemorations. Featuried celebrity cook Prue Leith and the Kentwell Tudor cooks. |
| 1996 | The Wind in the Willows | Starred Steve Coogan and various members of the Monty Python team. Kentwell featured as the outside of Toad Hall. |
| 2003 | Warrior Women: Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen | Discovery Channel production about Gráinne Ní Mháille, the Irish pirate queen. Featured Kentwell Hall as Greenwich Palace and Kentwell re-enactors in the scene where Gráinne meets Elizabeth I. |
| 2003 | Royal Deaths and Diseases | Lion TV production for Channel 4. Featured Kentwell re-enactors in an episode about the phantom pregnancies of Mary I. |
| 2004 | Days That Shook the World: Affairs of the Crown | BBC TV documentary about the life and death of Anne Boleyn. Featured Kentwell re-enactors. |
| 2005 | The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend | ITV production, hosted by Richard Hammond, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. Various scenes featuring the conspirators and King James I were filmed around the Kentwell grounds. |
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Walden Media adaptation of the C. S. Lewis story. Kentwell Hall appeared fleetingly as the outside of the Professor's house. As the production was based in New Zealand, it was impractical to use Kentwell as a traditional location; so a special effects team scanned the house and created a 3D digital model, which was used to create a CGI image for the final film. |
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