Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably...
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producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as...
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Millions Like Us (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
Moore Marriott and Eric Portman. It was co-written and co-directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. According to the British Film Institute database...
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portrayals of the clergy were forbidden by the Production Code in Hollywood. Sidney Gilliat did these rewrites as a favour to Hitchcock. Laughton then demanded...
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Howard. It was written and produced by the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, with Launder directing. It's 1937, in a tiny rural village in Ireland...
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Endless Night (1972 film) (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
Christie's Endless Night) is a 1972 British horror-mystery film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, Hywel Bennett...
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Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1939 short story Report on a Fugitive...
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Fortune Is a Woman (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
1957 black and white British-American film noir crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl. Its plot concerns an attempted...
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The Blue Lagoon (1949 film) (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
and adventure film directed and co-produced by Frank Launder (with Sidney Gilliat) and starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The screenplay was adapted...
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Waterloo Road (film) (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim. It is based on the Waterloo...
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Gilliat, British banker Martin Gilliat, British soldier Richard Gilliat, English cricketer Rosemary Gilliat, Canadian photojournalist Sidney Gilliat,...
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Only Two Can Play (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
Only Two Can Play is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat starring Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling and Virginia Maskell. The screenplay...
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Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams. The screenplay was by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, based on the play Meet a Body. In the film, a professional contract...
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Green for Danger (film) (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat and stars Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Leo Genn, and Alastair...
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and Basil Radford. The characters were created by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. The duo became very popular and were used as recurring characters in...
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George Axelrod, based on the screenplay of 1938's The Lady Vanishes by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, in turn based on Ethel Lina White's 1936 novel The...
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form a chronological quartet, and were produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. They had earlier produced The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), a...
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The Lady Vanishes (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel...
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The Constant Husband (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
The Constant Husband is a 1955 British comedy film, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker...
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State Secret (1950 film) (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
State Secret is a 1950 British drama thriller film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe...
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London Belongs to Me (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
as Dulcimer Street) is a British film released in 1948, directed by Sidney Gilliat, and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on...
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Progress Sidney Gilliat 1946 I See a Dark Stranger Frank Launder a.k.a. The Adventuress 1946 Odd Man Out Carol Reed 1946 Green for Danger Sidney Gilliat 1947...
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it was adapted into an opera by Malcolm Williamson to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat, who had worked on the film. In 2007, it was adapted into a play by...
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Pressburger; he starred as the villain alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr in the Sidney Gilliat directed State Secret (1950). He was recruited by 20th Century Fox to...
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several of Reed's films in this period were written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, with the screenwriters and director working for producer Edward Black...
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The Rake's Progress (film) (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
Taffy (15 May 1990). "Interview with Sidney Gilliat" (PDF). British Entertainment History Project. p. 130. Gilliat p 128-129 Crowther, Bosley. "THE SCREEN;...
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The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (category Films with screenplays by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat)
Cole, Joyce Grenfell and Eric Barker. It was written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat and set in the fictional St Trinian's School. It was the third in a...
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
film, directed by Sidney Gilliat, is based on Leslie Baily's The Gilbert and Sullivan Book, and Baily co-wrote the screenplay with Gilliat. Shot in Technicolor...
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Her mother, opera singer Caroline Gilliat, left him in 1962. She is the daughter of film director Sidney Gilliat. She returned to England when she was...
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another big hit. Also popular was The Rake's Progress (1946), directed by Sidney Gilliat. Harrison received an offer from 20th Century Fox to star in Anna and...
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