{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox television | image = Death Has a Bad Reputation.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = DVD cover | genre = Action Thriller | writer = Murray Smith | story = Frederick Forsyth | director = Lawrence Gordon Clark | starring = {{plainlist| * Tony Lo Bianco * Pamela Villoresi * Elizabeth Hurley }} | music = Paul Chihara | country = United Kingdom | language = English | producer = Frederick Muller | executive_producer = {{plainlist| * Frederick Forsyth * Nick Elliott * Murray Smith }} | editor = Alan Pattillo | cinematography = Cristiano Pogany | runtime = 98 minutes | company = FremantleMedia for LWT | budget = | network = ITV | released = {{Start date|1990|11|24|df=y}} }}
'''''Death Has a Bad Reputation''''' is a 1990 British made-for-television action thriller film based on a story by Frederick Forsyth starring Tony Lo Bianco, Pamela Villoresi and Elizabeth Hurley. It was originally broadcast 24 November 1990 in the UK on ITV as part of ''Frederick Forsyth Presents'', a series of six thriller films based on stories by Forsyth.
==Synopsis== A British agent chases after notorious international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal", when he resurfaces in Europe. Intelligence networks worldwide are involved when Donatini, a United States Department of State employee, is assassinated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/rentals/frederick-forsyth-death-has-a-bad-reputation-133414.html|title=Rent Frederick Forsyth: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990) film}}</ref>
==Cast== *Tony Lo Bianco as Carlos *Pamela Villoresi as Antonella *Elizabeth Hurley as Julia Latham *Gottfried John as Rodimstev *Alan Howard as Sam McCready *Venantino Venantini as Umberto Aidoni *David Lyon as Patrick Cowlishaw *Richard Hope as Spry *Garrick Hagon as Stephen T. Hamilton *Philip Lowrie as Superintendent Jamieson *Nancy Lippold as Patricia Gino Donatini as Roberto Renna
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{IMDb title|0099383|Death Has a Bad Reputation}}
{{Frederick Forsyth}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Death Has a Bad Reputation}} Category:1990 films Category:1990 television films Category:1990 action thriller films Category:British thriller television films Category:British action thriller films Category:British spy films Category:Films based on works by Frederick Forsyth Category:Films based on mystery novels Category:Cultural depictions of Carlos the Jackal Category:ITV (TV network) original programming Category:Films scored by Paul Chihara Category:1990 English-language films Category:1990 British films Category:English-language action thriller films
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