Known for Directing
Died
January 5, 1986
Filmography
40 films


Top Secret!
1984 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.


Betrayal
1983 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.


Superman II
1980 · 2h 7m
country: United Kingdom
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.


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.


Julia
1977 · 1h 57m
country: United States
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.


The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
1976 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.


The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · 1h 56m
country: France
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.


The Ghoul
1975 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in India. When an auto race is held at the estate, Lawrence worries that his son may escape and terrorise the youth.


Craze
1974 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers human sacrifice.


Luther
1974 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.


The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?


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.


Our Mother's House
1967 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.


Accident
1967 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.


The Deadly Bees
1966 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.


Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
1966 · 1h 21m
country: United Kingdom
Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.


Alfie
1966 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.


Dr. Who and the Daleks
1965 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Who, his two granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.


The Servant
1963 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
An indolent aristocrat gets more than he bargained for when he hires a competent but silently devious manservant.


The Damned
1962 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.


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.


A Kind of Loving
1962 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.


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.


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 Criminal
1960 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.


The Mouse That Roared
1959 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.


Intent to Kill
1958 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.


Wonderful Things
1958 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.


These Dangerous Years
1957 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.


The Gamma People
1956 · 1h 19m
country: United Kingdom
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.


Richard III
1955 · 2h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.


An Inspector Calls
1954 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?


The Ringer
1952 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.