Known for Sound
Born
January 19, 1924
Died
March 24, 2020 (age 96)
Birthplace
Kertosono, Kediri, Dutch East Indies
Filmography
22 films, 1 show


The Gambler
1997 · 1h 37m
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.


Claretta
1984 · 2h 7m · IT
A journalist wants to make a film about the life and death of Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini. For this, she will turn to her sister Miriam.


The Lost Continent
1968 · 1h 29m · UK
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.


The Bedford Incident
1965 · 1h 42m · UK
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.


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


Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963 · 1h 38m · UK
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.


Konga
1961 · 1h 30m · UK
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!


Cone of Silence
1960 · 1h 28m · UK
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.


Horrors of the Black Museum
1959 · 1h 21m · UK
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.


The Headless Ghost
1959 · 1h 2m · UK
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.


The Camp on Blood Island
1958 · 1h 21m · UK
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.


The Man in the Sky
1957 · 1h 27m · UK
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.


The Long Arm
1956 · 1h 36m · UK
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.


But Not in Vain
1948 · 1h 14m · NL
Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.