Mr. Darcy Appearances
Despite being one of the greatest works of english fiction ever written, Pride and Prejudice seems to not have a ton of feature films adapting it. What it has, however, is TV miniseries. Something about this story seems to make it prime miniseries fodder. Here are a ton of them:
In 1940, Laurence Olivier played Darcy 1n one of the first adaptations of the novel. He played opposite Oscar winner Greer Garson's Eliza, in a movie that happens to be co-written by Aldus Huxley!
Van Helsing himself, Peter Cushing, also played Darcy, this time in a 1952 TV miniseries.
Another miniseries, this time in 1958, starred Alan Badel opposite my personal favorite Eliza, Jane Downs.
Lewis Fiander played Darcy in another miniseries from 1967 opposite Elizabeth Garvie.
David Rintoul's turn as Darcy in the 1980 miniseries was cited by Pika as her favorite version.
Here we go... the guy usually considered THE Mr. Darcy: Colin Firth, acting opposite Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 miniseries.
Now we see one of the first loose adaptations of the novel that change it's setting; 2004's Bride and Prejudice (that's Bride, not Pride) starred New Zeland actor Martin Henderson as Darcy opposite Bollywood Mega-star Aishwarya Rai in a modern retelling of the novel.
2003's Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy was an independent film financed by the mormon church, setting it's story in modern-day Utah, where this story about young headstrong women reacting to societal pressure to be married plays out in a modern context exactly how you don't want it to. Orlando Seale plays a modern-day version of Darcy that is exactly as cringy as you imagine it might be.
By asking Liz (a character played by Kiera Knightley) about Jane Austen, GND is referencing this movie, 2005's Pride & Prejudice (the first feature film adaptation since 1940 for some reason?) starring Kiera Knightly as Eliza and Matthew Macfadyen as Darcy.
Lost in Austen is a 4-part TV miniseries from 2008 that featured a new character, Amanda, who was teleported into the world of Pride and Prejudice from a portal in her bathroom in modern-day London, who proceeds to completely wreck the plot and change it completely. Darcy is played by Elliot Cowan.
This one is rough, because the 2009 novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith was actually a brilliant piece of work that managed to keep a huge amount of the original text and plot of Pride and Prejudice intact while setting it in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the 2016 film adaptation wasn't quite so successful, devolving into a pretty standard action movie. Darcy, in this case a professional zombie assassin, is played by Same Reily.
2019's Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta is a Lifetime movie; one of those sappy made for tv movies designed for easy feel-good viewing. It resets the novel around a modern-day church community in Atlanta with an all-black cast... and I mean... it's a Lifetime movie. it's sweet, harmless fun. Darcy is played by Juan Antonio and his cardigan.