Known for Camera
John Coquillon was born on 29 July 1930 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for The Changeling (1980), Straw Dogs (1971) and Cross of Iron (1977).
Born
July 29, 1930
Died
January 1, 1987 (age 56)
Birthplace
The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Filmography
47 films, 5 shows


The Christmas Gift
1986 · 2h
country: Unknown
A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.


The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
1986 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.


Clockwise
1986 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.


Lace 2
1985 · 3h 8m
country: United States
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.


Best Revenge
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks on a suicide mission to smuggle four million dollars worth of hashish out of Morocco.


The Wars
1983 · 1h 58m
country: Canada
Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.


The Osterman Weekend
1983 · 1h 43m
country: United States
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.


Ivanhoe
1982 · 2h 17m
country: United Kingdom
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.


Praying Mantis
1982 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.


The Amateur
1981 · 1h 52m
country: Canada
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.


Mr. Patman
1981 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.


Final Assignment
1980 · 1h 38m
country: Canada
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.


The Changeling
1980 · 1h 47m
country: Canada
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.


A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1980 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.


All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · 2h 30m
country: United Kingdom
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.


The Thirty Nine Steps
1978 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...


Absolution
1978 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.


The Four Feathers
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, symbols of cowardice.


Cross of Iron
1977 · 2h 13m
country: Germany
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.


The Story of David
1976 · 3h 11m
country: United States
The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba is handled with taste and decorum. Also in the cast are Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Terence Hardiman as Bathsheba's unfortunate warrior husband Uriah.


Echoes of a Summer
1976 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.


The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination


Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.


The National Health
1973 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.


Rentadick
1972 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...


The Triple Echo
1972 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant posted nearby.


Short Cut to Haifa
1972 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be rescued.


Straw Dogs
1971 · 1h 56m
country: United States
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.


Cry of the Banshee
1970 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.


Wuthering Heights
1970 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.


Scream and Scream Again
1970 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
A serial killer who drains his victims of blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.


Egghead's Robot
1970 · 56m
country: United Kingdom
'Egghead' Wentworth adapts his father's robot paratrooper to perform his chores, but forgets to programme it to keep him out of trouble.
The Waiters
The Waiters
1969 · 30m
country: United Kingdom
Hill plays a caterer who gets drunk on the job and proceeds to make a disaster of a middle class couple's dinner party.


The Oblong Box
1969 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.


The Body Stealers
1969 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.


Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.


Witchfinder General
1968 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.


Cup Fever
1965 · 1h 3m
country: United Kingdom
The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. But Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with boss man Matt Busby.


Runaway Railway
1965 · 55m
country: United Kingdom
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train


Go Kart Go
1964 · 55m
country: United Kingdom
Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.


Eagle Rock
1964 · 1h 2m
country: United Kingdom
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.


The Impersonator
1961 · 1h 4m
country: United Kingdom
When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.


Girl on Approval
1961 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak.


Zanzabuku
1956 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.