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Tom Clegg
Director 1934 - 2016

Tom Clegg

Lancashire, England

Tom Clegg was born on October 16, 1934 in Lancashire, England as Thomas Harrison Clegg. He was a director and writer, known for the TV seres Sharpe, McVicar (1980), Slagskämpen (1984) and Sweeney 2 (1978). He was married to Audrey Clegg. He died on July 24, 2016 in the UK.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

20 titles
Sharpe's Peril

Sharpe's Peril

Tom Clegg 2008 2h 17m

Sharpe is asked by the governor to perform one last task while in India. He is to escort a Frenchwoman to her fiancée at an outpost. Sharpe agrees, little knowing he is walking into a rebellion with the instigators quite close to home.

Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Challenge

Tom Clegg 2006 2h 18m

1817. Sharpe has retired from the army but is summoned by the Duke of Wellington for an important mission. An agent in India has gone missing while trying to track down a traitorous British officer. That agent is Patrick Harper.

Sharpe's Waterloo

Sharpe's Waterloo

Tom Clegg 1997 1h 42m

Napoleon has escaped from Elba and Britain is at war again. As Wellington's army assembles in Belgium, Sharpe, now a Lt. Colonel, is placed on the staff of the Dutch Prince of Orange, commander of a large portion of Wellington's army.

Sharpe's Revenge

Sharpe's Revenge

Tom Clegg 1997 1h 42m

Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napoleon's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile, Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.

Sharpe's Justice

Sharpe's Justice

Tom Clegg 1997 1h 42m

Returning to Yorkshire, Sharpe finds himself on the wrong side between corrupt employers and exploited workers.

Sharpe's Siege

Sharpe's Siege

Tom Clegg 1996 1h 42m 5.0

Wellington is about to invade France and is considering his options. Sharpe's regiment, under the command of a green Colonel, is sent to capture a French castle in the hope that the local population will rise up against Napoleon.

Sharpe's Regiment

Sharpe's Regiment

Tom Clegg 1996 1h 42m 5.0

The South Essex is to be disbanded due to dwindling personnel. This doesn't make sense as the entire 2nd Battalion is in England and taking new recruits. Sharpe and Harper head to England to work out what is going on and save the regiment.

Sharpe's Mission

Sharpe's Mission

Tom Clegg 1996 1h 42m

Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.

Sharpe's Sword

Sharpe's Sword

Tom Clegg 1995 1h 42m

Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success.

Sharpe's Gold

Sharpe's Gold

Tom Clegg 1995 1h 42m

Sharpe leads a party to exchange rifles for British deserters. He is dealing with Aztec-inspired Spanish partisans. Complicating matters is Wellington's cousin, with her daughter, who is searching for her missing husband.

Sharpe's Battle

Sharpe's Battle

Tom Clegg 1995 1h 42m

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.

Sharpe's Honour

Sharpe's Honour

Tom Clegg 1994 1h 42m

The French are on the run in Spain. In an effort to save Spain, Major Ducos engineers a diplomatic incident to split the English-Spanish alliance. Sharpe is at the centre of this incident, putting his life and honour at stake.

Sharpe's Enemy

Sharpe's Enemy

Tom Clegg 1994 1h 42m 5.0

An army of British, French, Spanish and Portuguese deserters, lead by Sharpe's arch-nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill, has kidnapped two English women and held them for ransom. Hakeswill demands that Sharpe deliver the ransom money himself.

Sharpe's Company

Sharpe's Company

Tom Clegg 1994 1h 43m

Spain, 1812. The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman to revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy.

Sharpe's Rifles

Sharpe's Rifles

Tom Clegg 1993 1h 42m

In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.

Sharpe's Eagle

Sharpe's Eagle

Tom Clegg 1993 1h 39m

General Wellesley sends Major Hogan, Sharpe, the chosen men and the South Essex Regiment to destroy a bridge. Sharpe is immediately in conflict with two junior officers of the South Essex and their incompetent commander.

McVicar

McVicar

Tom Clegg 1980 1h 52m

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.

Children of the Full Moon

Children of the Full Moon

Tom Clegg 1980 52m 5.0

A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman, and deadly wolf children that scour the countryside looking for victims.

Sweeney 2

Sweeney 2

Tom Clegg 1978 1h 44m

Second theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Regan and Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

Regan

Regan

Tom Clegg 1974 1h 17m

Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years.

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