Known for Directing
Born
September 20, 1909
Died
January 22, 1995 (age 85)
Birthplace
Kensington, London, England, UK
Filmography
21 films


Superman
1978 · 2h 24m
country: United Kingdom
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.


That Lucky Touch
1975 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.


Frenzy
1972 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.


Eyewitness
1970 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968 · 2h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.


Theatre of Death
1967 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.


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.


The Lion
1962 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.


The Road to Hong Kong
1962 · 1h 31m
country: United States
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.


Tom Thumb
1958 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.


The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · 2h 42m
country: United Kingdom
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.


A Prize of Gold
1955 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.


Mogambo
1953 · 1h 56m
country: United States
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.


Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.


Stage Fright
1950 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.