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Robert Jordan Hill
Robert Jordan Hill was a British director, writer, editor and producer of films. He had a partnership with John Guillermin for a time. Filmography References External links Robert Jordan Hillat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...Robert Jordan Hillat BFI British film directors {{UK-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Guillermin
John Guillermin (11 November 192527 September 2015) was a French-British film director, writer and producer who was most active in big-budget, action-adventure films throughout his lengthy career. His more well-known films include '' I Was Monty's Double'' (1958), ''Tarzan's Greatest Adventure'' (1959), ''Never Let Go'' (1960), ''Tarzan Goes to India'' (1962), '' Waltz of the Toreadors'' (1962), ''The Blue Max'' (1966), ''The Bridge at Remagen'' (1969), ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974), ''King Kong'' (1976), ''Death on the Nile'' (1978), '' Sheena'' (1984) and ''King Kong Lives'' (1986). In the 1980s, he worked on much less prestigious projects, and his final films consisted of lower-budgeted theatrical releases and TV movies. According to one obituary, "Regardless of whether he was directing a light comedy, war epic or crime drama, Mr. Guillermin had a reputation as an intense, temperamental perfectionist, notorious for screaming at cast and crew alike. His domineering manner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Lucky People
''You Lucky People!'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan. Originally titled ''Get Fell In'', the film was renamed to match Trinder's familiar catchphrase. It was shot in a rival French process to CinemaScope, called 'CameraScope', with the attendant publicity describing "the first feature to be made with an anamorphic lens in black and white! It's a camerascoop!". It was shot at Beaconsfield Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Ray Simm. Premise An intake of civilian reservists arrive at army camp to do their two weeks refresher training. Cast * Tommy Trinder as Tommy Smart * Mary Parker as Private Sally Briggs * Dora Bryan as Sergeant Hortense Tipp * R.S.M. Brittain as Himself * James Copeland as Private Jim Campbell * Michael Kelly as Sergeant Manners * Mark Singleton as Lieutenant Arthur Robson * Charles Rolfe as Hooky * Rolf Harris as Private Proudfoot * Rufus Cruikshank as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lynn (director)
Robert Lynn (9 July 1918 – 15 January 1982) was a British film and TV director. His TV work includes ''Interpol Calling'', ''Armchair Theatre'' and '' Captain Scarlet''. He also produced the classic children's film ''The Railway Children'' (1970). He was the son of actor Ralph Lynn. Selected filmography * ''Information Received'' (1961) * ''Two Letter Alibi'' (1962) * '' Postman's Knock'' (1962) * ''Victim Five'' (1964) * ''Coast of Skeletons'' (1964) * ''Mozambique'' (1965) * ''Change Partners'' (1965) * ''Sandy the Seal'' (1965, released 1969) * ''Eve Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...'' (1968) References External links * * 1918 births 1982 deaths British film directors People from Fulham {{UK-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solo For Sparrow
''Solo for Sparrow'' is a 1962 crime film directed by Gordon Flemyng and produced by Jack Greenwood and Abhinandan Nikhanj, part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of British second-features. It stars Glyn Houston, Anthony Newlands and Nadja Regin, and features Michael Caine in an early supporting role. The film was released in America in 1966, when the producers capitalised on Caine's new-found fame and released it with his name above the title. Plot Inspector Sparrow (Glyn Houston) is a provincial detective who sets up his own private-eye firm when Scotland Yard meddles with his business. When crooks accidentally kill a shop cashier while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works, Sparrow goes to work. He successfully tracks down the criminals and turns them over to Scotland Yard. Cast * Glyn Houston as Inspector Sparrow * Anthony Newlands as Reynolds * Nadja Regin as Mrs. Reynolds * Michael Coles as Pin Norman * Allan Cuthbertson as Chief Superintendent Symingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Flemyng
Gordon William Flemyng (7 March 1934 – 12 July 1995) was a Scottish television and film director. He was also a writer and producer. He directed six theatrical features, several television films and numerous episodes of television series, some of which he also wrote and produced. Career Flemyng directed episodes of various British TV series, including ''The Younger Generation'', , ''The Saint'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Baron'', ''Crown Court'', ''ITV Playhouse'', ''Target'', ''Screenplay'', '' Take My Wife'', ''Cribb'', ''The Brack Report'', ''One Summer'', ''Wish Me Luck'', ''The Bill'', ''Emmerdale Farm'', '' Bergerac'', ''Taggart'', ''Peak Practice'', ''Lovejoy'', ''Minder'' and ''Ellington'' (also produced). Flemyng directed two entries in ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' (US: ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'') series of second features and the two Dalek feature films of the 1960s, ''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' (1965) and ''Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.'' (1966). Flemyng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be The Malpas Mystery while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see ''German crimis''), there was no atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tronson
Robert Tronson (18 May 1924 – 27 November 2008) was an English film and television director, born in Chilmark, Wiltshire. Educated at Churcher's College in Hampshire, followed by the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he served with the Royal Navy from 1941. After leaving the service at the end of the Second World War he determined to become a writer, but soon joined the BBC, where he produced children's television programmes. In 1955 he joined Associated-Rediffusion, and by the end of the decade he was working on television drama serials. From the 1960s onwards he worked as a freelance director in a career spanning almost 50 years. His final television credits were for directing five episodes of ''Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'' for the BBC, between 1996 and 1998. In 1965 Tronson married Nona Richards (died 1987). He died on 27 November 2008 and was survived by their son. Filmography Films *'' Shooting Star'' (1951), written with Hazel Adair *'' The Professor's Secret'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Detained
''Man Detained'' is a 1961 British crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is loosely based on the 1916 novel '' A Debt Discharged'' by Edgar Wallace.Goble p.486 The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins. Cast * Bernard Archard as Det. Inspector Verity * Elvi Hale as Kay Simpson * Paul Stassino as James Helder * Michael Coles as Frank Murray * Ann Sears as Stella Maple * Victor Platt as Thomas Maple * Patrick Jordan as Brand * Clifford Earl as Det. Sgt. Wentworth * Gerald Lawson as Old Man * Jean Aubrey Jean Aubrey (1932-2008) was a British actress. Jean Aubrey was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in 1932. Selected filmography * '' Date at Midnight'' as Paula Burroughs (1959) * ''Model for Murder'' as Annabelle Meadows (1959) * ''On th ... as Gillian Murray * Gareth Davies as Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Varnel
Max Varnel (21 March 1925 – 15 January 1996) was a French-born Australian film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia. Biography Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of the film director Marcel Varnel. He began his career as an assistant director of ''The Magic Box'' (1951) and continued in this rol for ''The Card'' (1952), ''Devil Girl from Mars'' (1954), and ''The Cockleshell Heroes'' (1955), among others. His directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including ''Moment of Indiscretion'', '' A Woman Possessed'' (both 1958), ''Top Floor Girl'', ''Web of Suspicion'', ''The Child and the Killer'', and ''Crash Drive'' (all 1959). Varnel's television credits include ''The Vise'', '' The Cheaters'', '' Softly Softly'', and ''The Troubleshooters'' in the UK, and '' Skippy'', ''Glenview High'', ''The Young Doctors'', and ''Neighbours'' in Australia, where he emigrated in the late 1960s. Varnel died of a heart attack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder In Eden (film)
''Murder in Eden'' is a 1961 British mystery film directed by Max Varnel and starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham. The screenplay involves the murder of an art critic and subsequent hunt for the killer. Plot The Woolf Art Gallery is promoting an exhibition of paintings under the title of "The Garden of Eden". A man peers strongly at a picture of Eve forming one of a pair representing Adam and Eve by a Dutch artist Van Meerwick. After he discovers a famous painting is fake, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Inspector Sharkey of Scotland Yard joins forces with French magazine reporter Geneviève Beaujean to investigate. Genevieve spends a lot of time at the gallery. It is revealed she is not a real reporter. The police find a portfolio belonging to the dead man. It states the best forger is Michael Lucas but his work is revealed by the use of zinc white. Michael Lucas has the real Eve hidden in a secret room in his seaside villa... he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and film producer, producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti". Early life Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child and, by the age of 15, was studying law at university, but was expelled following an argument with a professor. His father sent him to Geneva, Switzerland, on condition that he did not study law or politics. Cavalcanti chose to study architecture instead. At 18, he moved to Paris to work for an architect, later switching to working in interior design. After a visit to Brazil, he took up a position at the Brazilian consul (representative), consulate in Liverpool, England. Cavalcanti corresponded with Marcel L'Herbier, a leading light in France's avant-garde film movement, which led to a job offer from L'Herbier for Cavalcanti to work as a scenic design, set desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cass
Henry Cass (24 June 1903 – 15 March 1989) was a British director, particularly prolific in film in the horror and comedy genres. Previously an actor, he was also a prolific stage director of classical theatre at the Old Vic in the 1930s. In 1923, Lee DeForest filmed Cass for a short film ''Henry Cass Demonstration Film'' made in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film was previewed at the Engineers Society of New York on 12 April 1923, and premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York on 15 April 1923 with 17 other short Phonofilms. He was married to the actress Joan Hopkins.McFarlane & Slide p.125 Filmography *''Lancashire Luck'' (1937) *'' 29 Acacia Avenue'' (1945) *'' The Glen Is Ours'' (1946) *'' The Glass Mountain'' (1949) *''No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) *'' Last Holiday'' (1950) *''Young Wives' Tale'' (1951) *'' Castle in the Air'' (1952) *''Father's Doing Fine'' (1952) *'' Breakaway'' (1955) *'' Windfall'' (1955) *''Reluctant Bride'' (1955) *'' No Smoking' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |