Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...
,
producer and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an
OBE for his services to film.
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Hill was employed by Stoll Pictures
Stoll Pictures was a British film production and distribution company of the silent era, founded in April 1918.
Background
During the early to mid-1920s it was the largest film company in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe. Its major domes ...
in the 1920s and Gainsborough Pictures in the 1930s.
Filmography
* '' At the Villa Rose'' (1920)
* '' The Hundredth Chance'' (1920)
* '' The Tidal Wave'' (1920)
* '' The Tavern Knight'' (1920)
* '' A Question of Trust'' (1920)
* ''The Place of Honour
''The Place of Honour'' is a 1921 British silent adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Hugh Buckler, Madge White and Miles Mander.Low p.428 It is based on a short story by Ethel M. Dell set in British India.
Cast
* Hugh Buckle ...
'' (1921)
* '' The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown'' (1921)
* ''The Nonentity
''The Nonentity'' is a 1922 British silent adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Annette Benson, Hugh Buckler and Daisy Campbell.Murphy p.294
Plot
The story concerns an aristocrat who goes undercover in British India to rescu ...
'' (1921)
* ''The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square
''The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square'' is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Betty Faire, Jack Hobbs and Eileen Magrath.
Cast
* Betty Faire - Jeanne Marney
* Jack Hobbs - Duke of Monaghan
* Eileen M ...
'' (1922)
* '' The Experiment'' (1922)
* ''Half a Truth
''Half a Truth'' is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Margaret Hope, Lawford Davidson and Miles Mander.Murphy p.294 It was based on a 1911 novel by Eliza Humphreys writing as Rita.
Cast
* Margaret Hope a ...
'' (1922)
* ''Petticoat Loose
''Petticoat Loose'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Dorinea Shirley, Warwick Ward and Lionelle Howard. It is based on the 1898 novel of the same title by Eliza Humphreys about a playwright who hy ...
'' (1922)
* '' The Truants'' (1922)
* '' Open Country'' (1922)
* ''Expiation
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'' (1922)
* ''The Indian Love Lyrics
''The Indian Love Lyrics'' is a 1923 British silent romantic drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Catherine Calvert, Owen Nares and Malvina Longfellow.Low p.387 It is based on the poem '' The Garden of Kama'' by Laurence Hope. Th ...
'' (1923)
* ''Don Quixote
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'' (1923)
* ''One Arabian Night
''One Arabian Night'' is a 1923 British silent comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring George Robey.Low p.127 It is based on the story of Aladdin.
Cast
* Aubrey Fitzgerald as Servant
* Lionelle Howard as Aladdin
* Julia Kean a ...
'' (1923)
* '' The Conspirators'' (1924)
* ''White Slippers
''White Slippers'' is a 1924 British silent adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Matheson Lang, Joan Lockton and Gordon Hopkirk.Low p.478-79 It was based on a novel by Charles Edholm. It is set in Mexico and is known by the al ...
'' (1924)
* ''The Prehistoric Man
''The Prehistoric Man'' is a 1924 British silent comedy film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring George Robey, Marie Blanche and H. Agar Lyons.Low p.127
Cast
* George Robey
Sir George Edward Wade, CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 ...
'' (1924)
* '' The Secret Kingdom'' (1925)
* '' The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP'' (1925)
* '' The Squire of Long Hadley'' (1925)
* ''The Qualified Adventurer
''The Qualified Adventurer '' is a 1925 British silent adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Matheson Lang, Genevieve Townsend and Fred Raynham. It was based on the 1922 novel ''The Qualified Adventurer'' by Selwyn Jepson.
Cas ...
'' (1926)
* '' Sahara Love'' (1926)
* '' The Chinese Bungalow'' (1926)
* ''The King's Highway
''The King's Highway'' is a 1927 British romantic adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring James Carew, Gerald Ames, Matheson Lang and Joan Lockton. The film follows the romance and escapades of an eighteenth-century English highw ...
'' (1927)
* '' A Woman Redeemed'' (1927)
* ''The Price of Divorce
The Power of One (film)
''The Price of Divorce'' is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Miriam Seegar, Wyndham Standing and Frances Day. The screenplay concerns a doctor's wife who wishes to marry her lover, ...
'' (1928)
* ''Boadicea
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'' (1928)
* '' The Guns of Loos'' (1928)
* '' The Unwritten Law'' (1929)
* '' Greek Street'' (1930)
* '' Dark Red Roses'' (1930)
* ''Such Is the Law
''Such Is the Law'' is a 1930 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Frances Day, C. Aubrey Smith and Kate Cutler. It was made at Cricklewood Studios.Wood p.70
Premise
A mother attempts to save her daughter's marriage.
C ...
'' (1930)
* '' The Great Gay Road'' (1931)
* ''Other People's Sins
''Other People's Sins'' is a 1931 British crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Horace Hodges, Stewart Rome and Anne Grey. It was made at Cricklewood Studios.Wood p.72 The screenplay concerns a father who takes the blame for a crim ...
'' (1931)
* '' A Gentleman of Paris'' (1931)
* '' The First Mrs. Fraser'' (1932)
* '' The Man from Toronto'' (1933)
* ''Britannia of Billingsgate
''Britannia of Billingsgate'' is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker, Kay Hammond and John Mills. A family who work in the fish trade at Billingsgate Market encounter a film c ...
'' (1933)
* '' My Old Dutch'' (1934)
* ''Hyde Park Corner
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'' (1935)
* '' The Cardinal'' (1936)
* ''The Gay Adventure
''The Gay Adventure'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Yvonne Arnaud, Barry Jones and Nora Swinburne. It was made at Welwyn Studios by the independent company Grosvenor Films.Wood p.90 It was based on the 19 ...
'' (1936)
* '' Take a Chance'' (1937)
* '' Command Performance'' (1937)
* '' Midnight Menace'' (1937)
* ''Follow Your Star
''Follow Your Star'' is a 1938 British musical film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Arthur Tracy, Belle Chrystall and Mark Daly. It was made at Pinewood Studios.Wood p.94
Cast
* Arthur Tracy as Arthur Tee
* Belle Chrystall as Mary
* ...
'' (1938)
References
External links
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British film directors
1890s births
1945 deaths
British male screenwriters
British film producers
People from Surbiton
20th-century British screenwriters
Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1945
Royal Air Force wing commanders
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