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In recent years, Cornwall’s special qualities, particularly its natural beauty, have attracted more than the traditional holidaymakers. Increasingly, film and television companies have been choosing the county as a location for part, or all of their productions, the highest profile so far coming in 2002 when part of the latest James Bond blockbuster, Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan, was shot on location at Holywell Bay near Newquay and at the Eden Project near St Austell.
Cornwall’s links with film and television go back as far as the 1940s when the film Johnny Frenchman was shot in the Mevagissey area. In 1971, Sam Peckinpah’s infamous movie Straw Dogs, starring Susan George, was filmed at St Buryan and Lamorna Cove. More recent hit films featuring Cornwall include Saving Grace, set on the north coast around Port Isaac, Boscastle and Trebarwith, and Johnny English, part of which was filmed at St Michael’s Mount.
Television has long appreciated Cornwall’s attraction, and the county came to national prominence in the mid 1970s with the serialisation of Poldark, based the novels of Winston Graham. The most recent success has come with Wild West, a comedy series starring Dawn French, filmed on location at Portloe on The Roseland.
All of this increasing popularity has led to the establishment of new ventures based in Cornwall, including the £8 million South West Film Studios at St Agnes, the Cornwall Film Fund, the Cornwall Film Festival, and the production company Mundic Nation.
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2004
Ecstasy – Redruth area
2003
San Antonio – Widemouth Bay
Ladies in Lavender – Penzance and Helston areas
Cold and Dark – South West Film Studios at St Agnes
2002
Hornblower – Falmouth, Charlestown, Pendennis Castle, St Mawes, Rame Head
Johnny English – St Michael’s Mount
Die Another Day – Holywell Bay, Eden Project
Saving Grace – Port Isaac, Boscastle, Trebarwith
1999
The Magical Legent of the Leprechauns – Watergate Bay, Bodmin Moor
1998
Coming Home – Lelant, Prideaux Place (Padstow), Marazion
The Shell Seekers – Land’s End, Lamorna Cove, Marazion
1997
Swept from the Sea – Crackington Haven, Bodmin
Oscar and Lucinda – Boscastle, Port Isaac, Bosinney
Rebecca – Charlestown Harbour
1996
Poldark – Rinsey (The Lizard), Lansallos (near Looe), Coombe Haven, Penrose Estate (Helston)
1995
Blue Juice – Newquay, St Ives, Mousehole, St Agnes, Godrevy
1990
The Witches– Newquay
1988
The Devil's Foot – Kynance Cove, Mounts Bay, Lanyon Quoit, West Penwith
Doomwatch – Mevagissey, Polperro
1971
Straw Dogs – St Buryan, Lamorna Cove
1967
Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles) – Newquay
1950
Treasure Island – Carrick Roads, River Fal, Helford River, Falmouth
Johnny Frenchman – Mevagissey
1944
Miranda – Polperro, Looe
Love Story –Minack Theatre
1935
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste – Falmouth
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Poldark – popular mid-1970s series based on the novels of Winston Graham
Wycliffe – Cornish detective series based on the novels of W J Burley
Frenchman's Creek – TV version of Daphne du Maurier’s famous story
Penmarric – BBC series about the lives of a Cornish family spanning the years from 1867 to 1940, from the novel by Susan Howatch
(The Camomile Lawn – wartime drama set in Cornwall, filmed at Veryan and Portloe
Wild West – comedy series starring Dawn French, film at Portloe
Doc Martin - comedy series starring Martin Clunes as a London doctor who comes to work in Cornwall. Set in Port Isaac
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