Known for Sound
Born
April 25, 1904
Died
January 1, 1972 (age 67)
Birthplace
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Filmography
48 films


Khartoum
1966 · 2h 14m
country: United Kingdom
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.


Thunderball
1965 · 2h 10m
country: United Kingdom
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.


The Tomb of Ligeia
1964 · 1h 21m
country: United Kingdom
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
Take Me Over
Take Me Over
1963 · 57m
country: United Kingdom
Campbell Carter, in the process of building a luxury hotel, is aggravated by the fact that he cannot acquire a coffee bar and adjoining antique shop owned by Sid Light and his younger brother Bill. Carter tries several unsuccessful tricks to further his own ends. Largely due to the fact that Carter's daughter Carole falls in love with Bill, there is a conciliation between Carter and Sid who go into partnership. Sid's new idea of a band-and-dance show in Twenties style is incorporated in the hotel.


The Day of the Triffids
1963 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.


The Full Treatment
1960 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.


Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.


Tank Force!
1958 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.


High Flight
1957 · 1h 29m
country: United States
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.


A King in New York
1957 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.


Manuela
1957 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.


The Hide-Out
1956 · 55m
country: United Kingdom
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.


Find the Lady
1956 · 54m
country: United Kingdom
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.


The Deep Blue Sea
1955 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.


The Good Die Young
1954 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.


The Heart of the Matter
1953 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.


The Intruder
1953 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.


The Red Beret
1953 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.


The Sound Barrier
1952 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.


Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.


The Late Edwina Black
1951 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.


Seven Days to Noon
1950 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.


The Angel with the Trumpet
1950 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.


The Third Man
1949 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.


Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.


Anna Karenina
1948 · 2h 19m
country: United Kingdom
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted— but in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.


Gert and Daisy's Weekend
1942 · 1h 19m
country: United Kingdom
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.


Tower of Terror
1941 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...


Heads We Go
1933 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.


Harmony Heaven
1930 · 1h 1m
country: United Kingdom
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.