
Birthday:
10-17-1913
Deathday:
11-08-1980 (67 years)
Birthplace:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Circus of Horrors
Producer
event1960 star_border 5.9
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A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Payroll
Producer
event1961 star_border 6.7
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A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Mister Jerico
Producer
event1970 star_border 5
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Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
The Big Day
Producer
event1960 star_border 7
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A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Hunted
Producer
event1952 star_border 6.7
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An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Wings over Africa
Editor
event1936 star_border 6
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Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.
October Moth
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event1960 star_border 6.2
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A mentally ill farm worker comes to believe that an injured car crash victim is his mother and becomes so unhinged that he turns to murder.
Passage Home
Producer
event1955 star_border 5.6
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Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Snowball
Producer
event1960 star_border 7.3
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A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
The Man in the Back Seat
Producer
event1961 star_border 5.2
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The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
Unearthly Stranger
Executive Producer
event1963 star_border 5.9
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A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
This Is China
Producer
event1946 star_border 6.5
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A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forbidden City and Great Wall are followed by Shanghai’s metropolitan skyline; primitive farming methods are juxtaposed with mechanised factories; children in rags are contrasted with models wearing the latest fashions; Nationalist commanders and Communist leaders vie for support.
Deadly Record
Executive Producer
event1959 star_border 5.3
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A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
Echo of Barbara
Producer
event1961
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Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to fool Mike's ex-convict dad Sam Roscoe (Mervyn Johns). The son hopes to entice Sam into revealing the whereabouts of his stolen money, and Paula is hopefully going to do the trick. Based on a novel by Jonathan Burke, Echo of Barbara is a better-than-usual British programmer, entertaining despite its surplus of unpleasant leading characters.
The Professionals
Executive Producer
event1960
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A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.
Assassin for Hire
Producer
event1951 star_border 5.5
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Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
The One That Got Away
Producer
event1957 star_border 7
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Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Tiger Bay
Producer
event1959 star_border 7.2
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In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
29 Acacia Avenue
Editor
event1945 star_border 5.7
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The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Producer
event1966 star_border 5
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A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
Another Day, A Symphony of London Life
Editor
event1939
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Begins as a "Day in the Life of London", but quickly becomes a story of romance on the London Underground as two Londoners meet while walking their dogs in Piccadilly Circus. The film features shots of the river Thames at dawn, Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market, and office workers crossing the river.
The Firechasers
Producer
event1971 star_border 7.2
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Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
Summer on the Farm
Editor
event1943
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A look at the rural farming community during WW II and how farmers help stop food shortages during the war.
The Large Rope
Story
event1953 star_border 5.5
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After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Country Town
Director
event1945
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Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.
High Tide at Noon
Producer
event1957 star_border 6
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After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer. As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
Devil's Bait
Producer
event1959 star_border 6.5
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The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
Father Came Too!
Producer
event1964 star_border 6
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When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
The Human Jungle
Producer (26 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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