Filmography

Several of Ken's novels have been made into movies or TV mini-series, and he fulfilled a life-long dream of appearing in front of a movie camera, with a small role in one of them. He is also the executive producer of White Wedding.

The Pillars of the Earth

2009. Munich-based Tandem Communications is producing The Pillars of the Earth as a four-part TV miniseries in conjunction with Ridley and Tony Scott's production company, Scott Free Inc.
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Eye of the Needle The Third Twin

1997. Directed by Tom McLoughlin. Starring Kelly McGillis as Dr. Jeannie Ferami, Jason Gedrick as Steve Logan and Larry Hagman as Berrington Jones. Also released as 'Ken Follett's The Third Twin'.

Lie Down with Lions

1994. Directed by Jim Goddard. Starring Timothy Dalton as Jack Carver. Also released as 'Red Eagle'.

On Wings of Eagles

1986. A five-hour TV mini-series. Directed by Andrew McLaglen. Starring Burt Lancaster as Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons, Richard Crenna as H. Ross Perot and Paul Le Mat as Jay Coburn. With Louis Giambalvo, Jim Metzler and Lawrence Pressman.

The Key to Rebecca

1985. Directed by David Hemmings. Starring Cliff Robertson as Major William Vandam, David Soul as Alex Wolff, Season Hubley as Elene Fontana and Anthony Quayle as Abdullah.

Eye of the Needle

1981. Directed by Richard Marquand. Starrring Donald Sutherland as Faber and Kate Nelligan as Lucy. With Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown and Christopher Cazenove.

Trivia ...

I had the opportunity to act in one of my own works, appearing as the 'manservant' in The Third Twin!

White Wedding

2009. Ken is the executive producer and his step-daughter Jann Turner the director of this South African comedy. White Wedding stars South African actors Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo (both of whom co-wrote and co-produced the film with Jann) and English actress Jodie Whittaker.

The film tells the story of two friends, Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi) and Tumi (Rapulana Seiphemo), who are heading from Johannesburg to Cape Town for Elvis’s wedding. Along the way, the pair meet Rose Jodie Whittaker) – a young English doctor who has fled the altar after finding that her fiancée was serially unfaithful to her. The unlikely trio hit the road together but things don’t go according to plan...

> See the White Wedding website and Jann Turner's website

Links

You can find out more about any of these films at the Internet Movie Database.