---
title: 'Black Beauty (1994)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Caroline Thompson'
released: '1994-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Family'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/black-beauty-1994'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109279/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Black Beauty (1994)

1994 · 88 min · Drama, Action, Adventure, Family · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

Black Beauty is a 1994 family drama film, written and directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut. The fifth cinematic adaptation of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel of the same name, the film stars Andrew Knott, who, the year prior, had played Dicken in The Secret Garden, as well as Sean Bean, David Thewlis and Alan Cumming as Black Beauty. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros., under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label, the film's story is told as an autobiography of the horse Black Beauty, with Cumming's voiceover narration as Beauty leading viewers through the trials of the horse's life through his own eyes.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Caroline Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/caroline-thompson)
- **Screenplay:** [Caroline Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/caroline-thompson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Danny Elfman](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-elfman)
- **Producer:** [Robert Shapiro](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-shapiro)
- **Director of Photography:** [Alex Thomson](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-thomson)
- **Editor:** [Claire Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-simpson)

## Cast

- [David Ryall](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-ryall)
- [John McEnery](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mcenery)
- [Jim Carter](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-carter)
- [Andrew Knott](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-knott)
- [Vincent Regan](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincent-regan)
- [Peter Cook](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-cook)
- [Rupert Penry-Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/rupert-penry-jones)
- [Docs Keepin Time](https://cinepixo.com/people/docs-keepin-time)
- [Vic Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/vic-armstrong)
- [Alun Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/alun-armstrong)
- [Peter Davison](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-davison)
- [Sean Bean](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-bean)
- [Eleanor Bron](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleanor-bron)
- [David Thewlis](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-thewlis)
- [Alan Cumming](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-cumming)

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