West London Film Map

Sixty Six
Shaun of the Dead
Derailed
Independent film makers
1969
Starring: Michael Caine,
Trevor Howard, Kenneth More,
Laurence Olivier, Michael
Redgrave, Ralph Richardson.
Olympic Way, Wembley,
November 2005
Sixty Six is a coming of age of story
which is set against the backdrop
of the 1966 World cup. To make
the scenes as authentic as possible
Universal Pictures came to the real
location and filmed directly outside the
new world-class Wembley Stadium
on Olympic Way. Wembley Stadium
tours will be available from 2007.
www.wembleystadium.com
Coronation Road, Park Royal,
October 2003
One of the iconic scenes from
the film was filmed in Brent, on
Coronation Road in Park Royal. The
location was chosen as the roads are
quiet and industrial making it perfect
for filming (particularly when Zombies
are involved!). Further attractions in
the Park Royal area is the legendary
bikers haunt Ace Café which is
regularly used for filming.
Central Middlesex Hospital,
Park Royal, October 2004
Suspense thriller starring Clive
Owen and Jennifer Anniston
was set in Chicago and filmed in
London. The ACAD Centre is used
at weekends for filming and during
the week is a functioning operating
theatre. Only a stones throw away
is the Grand Union Canal with
delightful canal boats and walks.
Location: The Grim’s Dyke
Hotel has provided the
backdrop for three Hammer
House of Horror films including
Christopher Lee’s favourite film
“The Devil Rides Out”
Location: RAF Bentley Priory,
Stanmore, which was the nerve
centre for the Battle of Britain
during World War II and is still a
working RAF base today.
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BRENT
The song “The Young Ones” was filmed from the big double gates
to the children’s area round the far side of Ruislip Lido. When it
was all over Cliff got mobbed by all the kids around at the time.
A409
1971 Warner Brothers
Starring: Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael
Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, David Prowse
Stanley Kubrik’s celebrated film A Clockwork Orange includes a number of scenes shot
on the newly-constructed - and at that time unlandscaped - Uxbridge Campus of
Brunel University. More recently the campus has been used for numerous episodes
of Inspector Morse, ‘Bollywood’ feature film Indian Baboo and thrillers starring Peter
Davison (The Last Detective) and John Hannah (Amnesia).
Sliding Doors
A409
A404
Bend it Like Beckham
HILLINGDON
Mowbray Road, Brondesbury
Park, September 2004
Romantic comedy Love Actually,
set and filmed in London, came
to Brent and chose Brondesbury
Park as one of their locations.
Other local attractions include the
green flag awarded Roundwood
Park and the beautiful Welsh Harp
reservoir with sailing clubs.
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UK (1961)
Starring: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray, Richard
O’Sullivan & Melvyn Hayes
A Clockwork Orange
HILLINGDON
Love Actually
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HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM
HILLINGDON
The Young Ones
BRENT
The Battle of Britain
Hammer House of Horror
1968
Starring: Christopher Lee,
Charles Gray, Sarah Lawson,
Paul Eddington, Russell Waters
BRENT
Location: The Fourth Form Room dates back to 1615
and is the original classroom used by the first pupils
at Harrow School. It was used as the scene of magic
lessons in Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone.
HARROW
HARROW
Warner Bros 2001
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma
Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman,
Ian Hart, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Fiona
Shaw, John Cleese, John Hurt, David Bradley
The Devil Rides Out
BRENT
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s
Stone
HARROW
Harrow School
Filmed in Barra Hall Park Hayes– the early football scenes...
with Jess and her friends
A404
A4090
Chocolat (2001)
Two romantic comedies were
shot in 1998 - Sliding Doors
and Martha Meet Frank,
Daniel and Laurence. True
Blue, tells the true story of
the 1986 Oxford-Cambridge
boat race, when it changed
from a gentleman’s race
to one where winning was
everything.
Location: Hammersmith
Bridge
A4127
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Johnny
Depp. Filmed in Barra Hall itself, scenes from the film ‘Chocolat
Scoop
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A404
HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM
A40
Calendar Girls
Location: Ramada Jarvis Hotel Ealing Common
W5 used to double as interior of hotel in Wetherby
where the ladies hold a press conference about
the success of the calendar.
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EALING
Bend it Like Beckham
Road Movie 2002
Starring: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightly and
Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
The Life and Death
of Peter Sellars
A40
Location: Southall Broadway used as general
background setting and the sari shopping for
Parminder’s sisters’ wedding dress scene.
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A406
The Importance of Being Earnest
EALING
Location: Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherds
Bush Green W12 8TT. Since 1903, the Shepherd’s
Bush Empire has been a prominent landmark on
London’s entertainment scene. The venue still
retains its original, opulent design and grandeur
of its early years. The West London venue is
a favourite haunt for artists, music industry
executives, the media and music-lovers alike.
www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk
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Fragile Films 2002
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Judy Dench
A4
Location: Pitzhanger Manor Museum and Art Gallery, Ealing Green
W5 used as the country home of Earnest (Rupert Everett).
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HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM
EALING
Harbour Pictures 2003
Starring: Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.
2006 Starring: Woody Allen; Hugh Jackman and
Scarlett Johansson
“a light comedy about sex, love, suspense and
murder”.
Home Box Office - 2004
Starring: Geoffrey Rush,
Sharlize Theron and Emily
Watson.
Location: Ravenscourt Park
Hospital, Ravenscourt Park,
Hammersmith W6. The exterior
and interior were used as the
hospital where Peter Sellars
drives Britt Ekland to give birth
to their child.
HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM
Working Title 2002
Starring: Hugh Grant and Rachel Weisz.
Location: Acton Town Hall, W3 used as venue for
school music performance at end of film, featuring
Hugh Grant on guitar stealing the show.
Love Actually
Location: Colin Firth visits an artist’s house in
Blenheim Road W4 then hails a cab on The
Avenue W4, to keep out of the winter chill, despite
the fact it was filmed on a balmy July day!
Green Street
Vanity Fair
Gunnersbury Park Estate, Popes Lane
London W3 8LQ. Tel:020 8992 1612
www.hounslow.info
The Butts, Brentford TW8 8BQ
Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex TW8
Tel: 020 560 0881
www.syonpark.co.uk
The Griffin Pub, 57 Brook Road
South, Brentford TW8 0NP
Tel: 020 8560 8555
Chiswick House & Grounds, Burlington lane
Chiswick W4 2RP. Tel: 020 8894 0508
www.hounslow.info
Syon House is located in Brentford. The
nearest railway stations are Brentford and
Syon Lane. The nearest tube station is
Osterley (piccadilly line). Full travel informaiton
can be found at www.syonpark.co.uk
The nearest train station is
Brentford and the nearest
underground station is South Ealing
(piccadilly line). For further location
information go to www.streetmap.
co.uk and type in the postcode.
Chiswick House and Grounds are located
in Chiswick. The nearest railway station is
Chiswick and the nearest underground station
is Turnham Green (district line). Full travel
information can be found at www.hounslow.info
The nearest railway station
is Brentford and the nearest
undergoud station is Kew
(district line). For further
location information go to
www.streetmap.co.uk and type
in the postcode.
HOUNSLOW
HOUNSLOW
Don’t try crashing a wedding at Gunnersbury Park Mansion like Juliet
Stevenson and Keira Knightly in Bend it Like Beckham! Gunnersbury Park
Mansion is a great wedding venue set in a large leafy park between Brentford
and Acton. It has a range of attractions and things to do including formal
gardens, green open spaces, lakes, historic buildings, a museum, play and
sports facilities, and a network of tree-lined paths.
Jada Productions - 2005
Starring: Scarlett
Johansson, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers and Emily Mortimer.
Location: The Queens
Club, Palliser Road W14
9EQ, used as the club
where Jonathan Rhys
Meyers works as club pro.
Rene Zellwegger (Miss Potter) and Johnny Depp (Jack the Ripper)
have been seen admiring the architecture in the Butts whilst on
location.The Butts is a beautiful Victorian conservation area in
Brentford which is a popular destinaiton with tourists and film
makers. It is located within five minutes of Brentford High Street,
and is very near to the river Thames and Grand Union Canal.
Follow in the footsteps of Helen Mirren and Nigel Hawthorne, who starred in
the Madness of King George, and visit Syon Park, the ancestral home of the
Duke of Northumberland. Syon Park’s unique historic buildings and landscaped
parkland on the river Thames, so close to London and major film studios, is a
favourite location for photoshoots, television and feature filming. Other films
and dramas shot at Syon House include Gosford Park and Daniel Deronda.
Elijah Wood enjoyed a pint here during the filming of Green
Street. The Griffin Pub serves Fullers Beers, which are
brewed locally in Chiswick. It is one of the famous four
pubs that corner Griffin Park, home of Brentford FC and the
London Broncos.
Re-enact Reece Witherspoon’s stroll in the beautiful gardens and take in the
beauty of Chiswick House and Grounds. Chiswick House is considered
to be the finest surviving example of Palladian architecture in Britain, with
superb collections of paintings and furniture. Its surrounding grounds claim
to be the birthplace of the English landscape garden and are thought to be
the most important historical landscapes in England and in Wales. Other
films shot here include Hard Day’s Night and De-lovely.
HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM
Madness of King George
HOUNSLOW
Miss Potter
HOUNSLOW
Bend it Like Beckham
The nearest underground station is
Acton Town (piccadilly and district
lines). For further travel information
go to www.hounslow.info
Match Point
Calendar Girls
HOUNSLOW
EALING
Working Title 2003
Starring: Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant,Liam Neeson, Emma
Thompson.
Harbour Pictures - 2003
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie
Walter and Celia Imrie.
Location: The Ark, Talgarth
Road, Hammersmith, W6.
The Calendar Girls are
invited to appear on an
American TV Show. The Ark
was used as the sumptuous
interiors of the hotel they
stayed in.
Look out for, coming in 2006/07
HAMMERSMITH
EALING
About A Boy
The Da Vinci Code/TheArk dir. Ron Howard - starring Tom Hanks, Audrey
Tatou, Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina,Breaking and Entering/Stamford House
Secure Unit dir. Anthony Mingella starring Jude Law and Ray Winstone, Miss
Potter/St. Peter’s Square dir. Chris Noonan starring Renee Zellwegger and Ewan
MacGregor and Shepherd’s Bush Empire/Scoop dir. Woody Allen starring Woody
Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson.