Cliveden - Film and Television

Film and Television

  • In the 2004 film Thunderbirds, Cliveden is used as the location for Lady Penelope's house, 'Creighton-Ward Mansion'.
  • The house is featured in the 2005 film Mrs. Henderson Presents.
  • The house and grounds are featured in the 2001 Bollywood film Yaadein
  • In the second Beatles film, Help! (1965), the scenes that were supposed to be in Buckingham Palace were filmed at Cliveden.
  • The house appears in the film Don't Lose Your Head, from the Carry-On genre of 1960s films.
  • Horse and carriage sequences in The Card (aka The Promoter) (1952), starring Alec Guinness, were filmed on the drive.
  • The Thames at Cliveden appears in both Chaplin (1992) and Carrington (1995).
  • Cliveden's panelled library stands in for a priest's New York study in the 2008 film Made of Honor.
  • A UK lottery advertisement portrays a man running around on the grounds at Cliveden.
  • Cliveden was featured as part of a reward on the UK television show The Apprentice.
  • In 2000 the BBC Antiques Roadshow used the grounds as a venue for a valuation day.
  • Cliveden was also feaured in the film The Yellow Rolls Royce with Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, and Shirley MacLaine.
  • Scandal (1989), story of the Profumo affair.
  • The main gates appear in the 1978 film Death on the Nile.
  • The interior and exterior of Spring Cottage appears in ITV's Cards on the Table (2005).
  • The French Dining room stands in for a hotel bedroom in Sherlock Holmes (2009).
  • The house appears as itself in the 1982 BBC TV series Nancy Astor.
  • The garden and interior of Spring Cottage and surrounding riverside location are used in the film Dead Man's Folly (1986).

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