Known for Writing
Born
August 2, 1910
Died
July 3, 1972 (age 61)
Birthplace
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Filmography
27 films, 3 shows


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.


Torpedo Bay
1963 · 1h 39m
country: France
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.


Mandy
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.


Hunted
1952 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.


I Believe in You
1952 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.


Pool of London
1951 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.


Cage of Gold
1950 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.


Green Fingers
1947 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.