Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes (22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.123 |
| Birthday | 1926-07-22 |
| Place of Birth | Stratford, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | John Theobald Clarke, |
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
0/0
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
1961
The Guns of Navarone
7.3/795
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range fiel...
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The Guns of Navarone
1956
Satellite in the Sky
5.3/16
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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Satellite in the Sky
1957
Quatermass 2
6.427/131
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly...
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Quatermass 2
1976
The Slipper and the Rose
6.9/46
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the p...
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The Slipper and the Rose
1985
Restless Natives
6.7/32
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of to...
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Restless Natives
1960
The League of Gentlemen
7/93
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa...
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The League of Gentlemen
1952
The World in His Arms
6.5/34
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
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The World in His Arms
1958
I Was Monty's Double
6.8/24
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions befor...
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I Was Monty's Double
1951
Green Grow the Rushes
5.8/6
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back...
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Green Grow the Rushes
1949
Dear Mr. Prohack
6/3
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and...
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Dear Mr. Prohack
2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
0/0
Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as act...
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2006
A Sense of Carol Reed
0/0
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' ,...
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A Sense of Carol Reed
1956
The Extra Day
6.6/4
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's cur...
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The Extra Day
1949
All Over the Town
6.2/4
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's par...
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All Over the Town
1950
The Wooden Horse
6.796/27
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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The Wooden Horse
1983
An Audience with Kenneth Williams
7.2/6
Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a long look back at his career - from his time entertai...
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An Audience with Kenneth Williams
1953
Wheel of Fate
4/1
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over L...
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Wheel of Fate
2003
Memories on a Wet Afternoon
0/0
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Memories on a Wet Afternoon
1954
An Inspector Calls
7.1/102
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 circums...
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An Inspector Calls
1958
The Key
6/27
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to...
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The Key
1954
The Million Pound Note
6.801/67
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...
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The Million Pound Note
1955
The Colditz Story
6.6/51
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval...
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The Colditz Story
1953
Appointment in London
6.2/14
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortl...
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Appointment in London
1995
Empire of the Censors
3.5/2
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
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Empire of the Censors
1953
Sea Devils
5.8/22
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h...
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Sea Devils
1969
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
7/1
In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow director Bryan Forbes and to answer questions from an...
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Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1954
Up to His Neck
0/0
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
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Up to His Neck
1964
A Shot in the Dark
7.2/562
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic ser...
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A Shot in the Dark
1959
Yesterday's Enemy
7.243/37
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...
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Yesterday's Enemy
1955
Passage Home
5.6/6
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 passe...
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Passage Home
1984
December Flower
0/0
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...
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December Flower
1965
King Rat
7/70
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
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King Rat
1956
Now and Forever
7/3
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...
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Now and Forever
1956
It's Great to be Young!
6.2/5
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing...
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It's Great to be Young!
1956
The Baby and the Battleship
6/8
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to ret...
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The Baby and the Battleship
1949
The Small Back Room
6.7/67
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal office...
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The Small Back Room
2001
The Stepford Life
6/1
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
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The Stepford Life
1973
Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things
10/1
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France, intervie...
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Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things
1972
I Am a Dancer
6/1
Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
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