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Oxford is such a beautiful city that a lot of film and TV companies love shooting here so there always seem to be a film crew in the city :
Among many others a few films filmed here :
•A Yank at Oxford (1938), starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh
•A Chump At Oxford/Related Shorts [1940] starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
•May Morning [1970], a critique of social mores in early 1970s Oxford
•Incense for the Damned (1972), starring Peter Cushing, Patrick Macnee and Edward Woodward (based on the novel Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven)
•Brideshead Revisited [1981], based on Waugh's novel; a mini-series enormously popular in Britain and America, the film has sometimes been seen as drawing unwanted attention to Oxford's stereotypical reputation as a playground of the upper classes. It stars Jeremy Irons, and most college shots are of Christ Church and Hertford.
•American Friends [1991], starring Michael Palin
•Tom & Viv (1994), a film which explores the troubled relationship between T. S. Eliot (played by Willem Dafoe) and his mentally ill wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson)
•True Blue (1996), about the mutiny at the time of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race of 1987
•National Lampoon's Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj, under the name of "Camford"
•What A Girl Wants (2003), movie about a vivascious teenager called Daphne who goes to visit her father in London, only to learn he is a lord. In the end she attends The University of Oxford just like her father.
Accident (1967)
Another Country (1984)
Oxford Blues (1984)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Howards End (1992)
Shadowlands (1993)
The Madness of King George (1994)
The Saint (1997)
Wilde (1997)
The Red Violin (1998)
Quills (2000)
Iris (2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Blue Blood (2006)
The Golden Compass (2007)
The Oxford Murders (2008)
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
And many, many more,
Oxford is also the location for the TV Detective series "Morse" ( now " Lewis" since John Thaw died) and features quite often in "Midsomer Murders".
Shallow Hal
Nell
Leatherheads
Days of Thunder
The Patriot
Cold Mountain (at least a few shots)
Last of the Mohicans
Talladega Nights
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