
Birthday:
09-09-1901
Deathday:
03-23-1975 (73 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
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School for Danger
Act like Henry Pickard
event1947 star_border 7
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Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against Hitler. British agents, Captain Harry Rée DSO, OBE, Croix De Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, aka "Felix", and Jacqueline Nearne, MBE, aka "Cat", recreate some of their adventures in France.
The Woman in Question
Producer
event1950 star_border 6
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Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
Pygmalion
Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 7
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When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Two Living, One Dead
Producer
event1961 star_border 7
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Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Don't Panic Chaps!
Producer
event1959 star_border 5.6
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During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.
Strictly Business
Assistant Director
event1931
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The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Elephant Boy
Assistant Director
event1937 star_border 6.6
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In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.
The Winslow Boy
Associate Producer
event1948 star_border 7
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In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Fast and Loose
Producer
event1954 star_border 5.8
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An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Associate Producer
event1949 star_border 6.8
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An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
The Windjammer
Assistant Director
event1930
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Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
The Browning Version
Producer
event1951 star_border 7.6
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Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Under the Red Robe
Assistant Director
event1937 star_border 6
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In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Producer
event1952 star_border 7.2
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Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
Dance Pretty Lady
Assistant Director
event1931
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During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
Now Barabbas
Associate Producer
event1949 star_border 6.5
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A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
As You Like It
Assistant Director
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Golden Arrow
Associate Producer
event1949
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On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Simon and Laura
Producer
event1955 star_border 5.6
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A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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