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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Frank Launder (section Sidney Gilliat)
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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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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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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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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British World War II spy comedy film directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and starred Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard. Ireland, 1937. Young Bridie...
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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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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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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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Gilliat, British banker Martin Gilliat, British soldier Richard Gilliat, English cricketer Rosemary Gilliat, Canadian photojournalist Sidney Gilliat,...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, written by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, and released on 4 April 1966. It is the last of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune Is a Woman (category Films directed by Sidney Gilliat)
film noir crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl. The screenplay was by Gilliat and Frank Launder, from an adaptation...
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company in January 1955, with the Boulting brothers, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat as directors. Until 1976 their distributor filmography included 155...
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