Stoke Park Country Club Film & Television Locations

Movie History
"From Bond to Bridget Jones, Stoke Park is amongst Hollywood’s hottest – and its right on our doorstep" - Wedding Ideas

Stoke Park has always had a close relationship to Pinewood Studios (four miles away) and the British film industry. Two James Bond movies, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) were filmed at Stoke Park. The epic duel between James Bond (Sean Connery) and Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) is still considered to be the most famous game of golf in cinematic history.

Dead of Night - 1945
Two golfers, having fallen for the same woman battle it out in style on the golf course. They decide to play 18 holes who ever loses would leave the area for good. The location, none other than Stoke Park.

James Bond - 007
The third and eighteenth movies in the James Bond series of feature films, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), were filmed in and around the mansion and on our championship golf course.

Goldfinger - 1964
Set at the fictional Royal St Mark's at Sandwich in Kent (although a rather transparent use of Fleming's own club, Royal St George's), 007 narrowly escapes defeat by bringing a little gamesmanship of his own into play. The golf match for the film version Goldfinger (1964) was shot at Stoke Park, and remains cinema's most famous golfing scene. Sean Connery's agent 007 is pitted against Auric Goldfinger, in the monumental form of the late Gert Frobe - complete with Plus Fours!

Tomorrow Never Dies - 1997
Stoke Park was proud to welcome back Bond in 1997 when scenes filmed at Stoke Park. The film crew and technicians converted our Ballroom into Bond's hotel room in Hamburg.

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed.

Bridget Jones's Diary - 2001
In the summer of 2001, Stoke Park’s Grade I listed building and breath-taking 300 acre grounds took to the scenes with a starring role in Bridget Jones's Diary. Daniel Cleaver (the dastardly Hugh Grant) takes the windswept Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) away for a luxury romantic mini break. As we can all recall, after a hilarious afternoon's rowing, filmed on the Club’s glistening lake, the couple retire to the Club's grand Pennsylvania Suite with its gloriously comfortable oak timbered four poster bed, exquisite marble bathroom, under floor heating and magnificent views overlooking the estate.

Layer Cake - 2004
Stoke Park was used extensively throughout this cult iconic English movie, starting right at the beginning when Gene (Colm Meaney) says "I'll see you at Stoke Park at 3.00" and Mr. X (Daniel Craig) and Morty (George Harris) speed up the drive in the opening credits and Morty says "This is sheer class" as they enter the Mansion. The famous lunch scenes with Mr X and the rest of his associates take place in the Wyatt Room and appear quite frequently throughout the movie. The Club's name and logo is used in the movie and even Mr X is given an Honorary Life Membership as a gesture instead of the £3,500,000 he was owed by Mr. Eddie Temple (Sir Michael Gambon), but the most famous scene was the ending when Mr X is shot on the Club's front steps by Sidney (Ben Whishaw) and Tammy (Sienna Miller) is left screaming as Mr X is lies dying at the front of the mansion.

RocknRolla - 2008
Guy Ritchie's 'return to form' gangster movie filmed two scenes at Stoke Park. The first scene takes place on the Club's grass tennis courts when old-school gangster, Lenny Cole, (Tom Wilkinson) continues his influence on the Councillor (Jimi Mistry) and gives him an engraved lighter.