Known for Camera
Born
November 22, 1915
Died
March 17, 2014 (age 98)
Birthplace
Ruislip, England, UK
Filmography
69 films


The Dark Crystal
1982 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.


The Great Muppet Caper
1981 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.


Just Tell Me What You Want
1980 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.


The Wiz
1978 · 2h 14m
country: United States
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.


Equus
1977 · 2h 17m
country: United Kingdom
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.


The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.


The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · 2h 9m
country: United Kingdom
Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.


The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.


The Odessa File
1974 · 2h 10m
country: Germany
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.


Dracula
1974 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.


The MacKintosh Man
1973 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...


Sleuth
1972 · 2h 18m
country: United Kingdom
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.


Lady Caroline Lamb
1972 · 2h 3m
country: United Kingdom
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.


Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · 3h 1m
country: United States
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.


Scrooge
1970 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.


Fragment of Fear
1970 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.


Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 · 2h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.


Great Catherine
1968 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.


Oliver!
1968 · 2h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.


The Winter's Tale
1968 · 2h 30m
country: United Kingdom
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life.


Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.


The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.


Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
1966 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization. Newley stars as Littlechap, whose allegorical rise to success is countered by the instability of his private life. Like the play, the film is staged impressionistically, with Newley decked out in mime makeup and periodically stopping the action to address the audience, and with all the women in his life -- German, American and "Typically English" -- played by a single actress (Millicent Martin, taking over from the stage version's Anna Quayle). In Wizard of Oz fashion, the play itself is lensed in color, while the brief prologue, showing the actors preparing for their performance, is in black-and-white. The production includes such standards (and perennial audition pieces) as What Kind of Fool Am I? and Gonna Build a Mountain.


The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.


Life at the Top
1965 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.


The Hill
1965 · 2h 3m
country: United Kingdom
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.


The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.


Mister Moses
1965 · 1h 55m
country: United States
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.


Of Human Bondage
1964 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Medical student Philip Carey becomes involved with flirtatious waitress Mildred Rogers. Their love affair is interrupted when Philip is made aware of her constant infidelity. As Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute, Philip is still in love with her.


The Pumpkin Eater
1964 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.


The Ceremony
1963 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.


Come Fly with Me
1963 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.


Term of Trial
1962 · 2h 10m
country: United Kingdom
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.


Lolita
1962 · 2h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.


Satan Never Sleeps
1962 · 2h 5m
country: United States
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.


The Guns of Navarone
1961 · 2h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.


The Entertainer
1960 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.


Our Man in Havana
1960 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.


Look Back in Anger
1959 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.


The Roots of Heaven
1958 · 2h 1m
country: United States
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.


The Key
1958 · 2h 14m
country: United Kingdom
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.


A Farewell to Arms
1957 · 2h 32m
country: United States
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.


Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.


Moby Dick
1956 · 1h 55m
country: United States
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.


The Man Who Never Was
1956 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.


Beau Brummell
1954 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.


Monsieur Ripois
1954 · 1h 40m
country: France
While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.


Beat the Devil
1953 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.


Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953 · 1h 4m
country: Italy
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?


South of Algiers
1953 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.


Moulin Rouge
1952 · 1h 59m
country: United Kingdom
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.


So Little Time
1952 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.


Saturday Island
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tropical island. But when British pilot William Peck crash-lands on their cozy little atoll, Dugan suddenly discovers he has a rival in love.


The Card
1952 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.


Circle of Danger
1951 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.


Fortune in Diamonds
1951 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.


Cairo Road
1950 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.


Golden Salamander
1950 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.