List of films and television shows shot at Elstree Studios
This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. The reason given is: due to a change in scope, now includes some out-of-scope productions, i.e., shot at Borehamwood/Elstree studios other than those in Shenley Road. (February 2022) |
[needs update] This is a list of films and TV productions made at Elstree Studios in Shenley Road, Borehamwood, England. Some dates represent production dates, rather than release dates.
Years
- 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
List
[edit]1927
[edit]Title | Type | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
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Madame Pompadour[1] | Silent film | Historical drama | BNP | Herbert Wilcox | Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno, Nelson Keys |
Poppies of Flanders[2][3] | Drama | BIP | Arthur Maude | Jameson Thomas, Eve Gray, Malcolm Tod | |
The Ring[2][4] | Romance | Alfred Hitchcock | Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter | ||
The Silver Lining[3] | Adventure | Thomas Bentley | Marie Ault, Patrick Aherne, Moore Marriott |
1928
[edit]1929
[edit]1930
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1930 were produced by British International Pictures.
1931
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1931 were produced by British International Pictures.
1932
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1932 were produced by British International Pictures.
1933
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1933 were produced by British International Pictures.
1934
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1934 were produced by British International Pictures.
1935
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1935 were produced by British International Pictures.
1936
[edit]All Elstree Studios films in 1936 were produced by British International Pictures.
1937
[edit]1938
[edit]1939
[edit]1940
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
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At the Villa Rose[3] | Detective | ABPC | Walter Summers | Kenneth Kent, Judy Kelly |
Crimes at the Dark House[3] | George King | Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves | ||
Dead Man's Shoes[3] | Drama | Thomas Bentley | Leslie Banks, Joan Marion, Wilfrid Lawson | |
The Flying Squad[3][2] | Crime | Herbert Brenon | Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks, Jack Hawkins | |
The House of the Arrow[3] | Mystery | RKO | Harold French | Kenneth Kent, Diana Churchill, Belle Chrystall, Peter Murray-Hill |
Just William[3] | Comedy | ABPC | Graham Cutts | Richard Lupino, Fred Emney, Basil Radford |
Meet Maxwell Archer[3] | ABPC | John Paddy Carstairs | John Loder, Leueen MacGrath, Athole Stewart | |
Old Mother Riley Joins Up[3] | Comedy | British National | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Martita Hunt |
1941
[edit]1942
[edit]Title | Type | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
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White Cargo[3] | MGM | Richard Thorpe | Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon |
1943—1944
[edit]1945
[edit]Title | Type | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Man from Morocco[citation needed] | Film | Action adventure | ABPC | Mutz Greenbaum | Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris |
1946—1948
[edit]Elstree was closed during this time, as the Royal Army Ordnance Corps used it as a depot during World War II.[25]
1949
[edit]Film
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
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Conspirator[36] | Film noir, suspense, espionage, thriller | MGM | Victor Saville | Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor |
Edward, My Son[36][33] | Drama | MGM-British | George Cukor | Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter |
The Hasty Heart[36][28][1] | War drama | ABPC | Vincent Sherman | Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd |
Landfall[35] | War | Ken Annakin | Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Kathleen Harrison | |
Man on the Run[2][37] | Film noir | Lawrence Huntington | Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More, Laurence Harvey |
Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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The New Adventures of Martin Kane[38][39] | Crime drama | UA | 1 | 39 | Fred Burns | William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens, Walter Kinsella |
1950
[edit]Title | Type | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Dancing Years[29][40] | Film | Musical | ABPC | Harold French | Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton |
Guilt Is My Shadow[41] | Drama | Roy Kellino | Elizabeth Sellars, Patrick Holt, Peter Reynolds | ||
Portrait of Clare[2] | Lance Comfort | Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard | |||
Stage Fright[42][1] | Black comedy film noir | Transatlantic | Alfred Hitchcock | Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd | |
The Woman with No Name[35] | Drama | Independent | Ladislao Vajda | Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton |
1951
[edit]Film
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|
Captain Horatio Hornblower[2][43][44] | Naval swashbuckling war | Warner Bros. | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan |
The Franchise Affair[2] | Thriller | ABPC | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding |
Green Grow the Rushes[43] | Comedy | Act Films Ltd | Derek N. Twist | Roger Livesey, Richard Burton, Honor Blackman |
Happy Go Lovely[2][43] | Musical comedy | Excelsior Films Ltd. | H. Bruce Humberstone | David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero |
Laughter in Paradise[35][43] | Comedy | ABPC | Mario Zampi | Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton |
The Magic Box[2] | Biographical drama | Festival Film Productions | John Boulting | Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, Margaret Rutherford |
Young Wives' Tale[43] | Comedy | ABPC | Henry Cass | Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Derek Farr, Guy Middleton |
Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars[35] | Anthology | Meridian Productions, Revue | 8 | 347 | 1951—1959 | Roy Kellino | James Mason, Irene Dunne |
1952
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life[citation needed] | Romantic drama | ABPC, Allied Artists | Victor Saville | Merle Oberon, Richard Todd |
Angels One Five[35][45] | War | Templar Productions | George More O'Ferrall | Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson |
Castle in the Air[35] | Comedy | ABPC | Henry Cass | David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford |
Elstree Story[43][46] | Documentary | Gilbert Gunn | Richard Todd, Monty Banks, Jack Buchanan | |
Father's Doing Fine[35][45] | Comedy | Marble Arch | Henry Cass | Richard Attenborough, Heather Thatcher, Noel Purcell, Virginia McKenna |
So Little Time[45] | Romance drama | Mayflower Productions | Compton Bennett | Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Lucie Mannheim |
Top Secret[44] | Comedy | ABPC | Mario Zampi | George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Nadia Gray |
Where's Charley?[25] | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. | David Butler | Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie |
The Woman's Angle[35][45] | Drama | ABPC | Leslie Arliss | Edward Underdown, Cathy O'Donnell, Lois Maxwell, Claude Farell |
1953
[edit]1954
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|
Duel in the Jungle[35][28] | Adventure | ABPC, Todon | George Marshall | Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, David Farrar |
For Better, For Worse[48] | Comedy | Kenwood Productions | J. Lee Thompson | Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Athene Seyler |
Happy Ever After[35] | Comedy | ABPC | Mario Zampi | David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald |
Knave of Hearts[2] | Dramedy, romance | Transcontinental Films | René Clément | Valerie Hobson, Gérard Philipe, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry |
Lilacs in the Spring[48][2] | Musical | Everest Pictures | Herbert Wilcox | Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison |
Trouble in the Glen[47] | Comedy | Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen | ||
The Weak and the Wicked[35][47] | Drama | Marble Arch | J. Lee Thompson | Glynis Johns, Diana Dors |
1955
[edit]Film
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Dam Busters[35][28] | Epic war | ABPC | Michael Anderson | Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave |
The Dark Avenger[35] | Historical adventure | Allied Artists, 20th Century Fox | Henry Levin | Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux |
The Eric Winstone Bandshow[35][32] | Music | Hammer | Michael Carreras | Kenny Baker, Alma Cogan, Eric Winstone |
King's Rhapsody[2] | Musical | Everest Pictures | Herbert Wilcox | Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, Patrice Wymore |
Oh... Rosalinda!![49] | Musical comedy | ABPC, The Archers | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Ludmilla Tchérina, Anton Walbrook |
Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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Dial 999[50][35] | Crime | Towers of London Productions, Ziv | 1 | 39 | 1958—1959 | Bernard Knowles | Robert Beatty |
ITV Television Playhouse[2] | Anthology | 9 | 387 | 1955—1967 | Cyril Coke | Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote | |
Ivanhoe[51][35] | Adventure | Screen Gems, Sydney Box Productions | 1 | 39 | 1958—1959 | Arthur Crabtree, Bernard Knowles | Roger Moore, Robert Brown |
Sailor of Fortune[52] | Adventure | Elstree Film Productions | 2 | 26 | 1955—1958 | John Guillermin, Michael McCarthy | Lorne Greene |
Target[citation needed] | Horror anthology | Ziv | 1 | 41 | 1958 | Eddie Davis | Adolphe Menjou |
1956
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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Armchair Theatre[35] | Anthology | ABC, Thames | 14 | 452 | 1956—1974 | Philip Saville | Harry H. Corbett, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum, Paul Whitsun-Jones |
ITV Play of the Week[2] | Anthology | Granada | 13 | 610 | 1955—1974 | Lionel Harris, Cyril Coke, John Llewellyn Moxey | Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence |
1957
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive![35] | Adventure anthology | Ardleigh Films, ABPC | 1 | 13 | 1957 | A. Edward Sutherland, David MacDonald |
1958
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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The Veil[35] | Horror/thriller anthology | Hal Roach Studios | 1 | 12 | 1958 | Herbert L. Strock, George Waggner | Boris Karloff |
1959
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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The Flying Doctor[35] | Drama | ABPC, Gross-Krasne Productions | 1 | 39 | 1959 | David MacDonald | Richard Denning, Jill Adams, Alan White, Peter Madden |
Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens[35] | Drama | Towers of London | 1 | 14 | 1959—1961 | Robert Lynn, Ross MacKenzie | Frederic March |
1960
[edit]1961
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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Alcoa Premiere[2] | Anthology | Avasta Productions | 2 | 57 | 1961—1963 | Alan Crosland Jr. | Fred Astaire |
The Avengers[1][35] | Action | ABC, ABPC | 7 | 161 | 1961—1969 | Don Leaver, Peter Hammond | Patrick Macnee |
Sir Francis Drake[58][35] | Adventure | ITC | 1 | 26 | 1961—1962 | David Greene, Terry Bishop, Clive Donner | Terence Morgan, Jean Kent |
1962
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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The Saint[50][1] | Mystery spy thriller | Bamore, ITC, New World Productions | 6 | 118 | 1961—1969 | Leslie Norman | Roger Moore, Ivor Dean |
1963
[edit]Films
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
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The Human Jungle[57][60] | Drama | Independent Artists | 2 | 26 | 1963—1965 | Roy Ward Baker | Herbert Lom, Michael Johnson, Sally Smith, Mary Yeomans |
1964
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Series | Episodes | Years | Main director/s | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gideon's Way[50] | Crime | ITC, New World Productions | 1 | 26 | 1964—1966 | Leslie Norman, Cyril Frankel | John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson |
1965
[edit]Film
[edit]Title | Genre | Company | Director | Starring |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita[35] | Drama | Warner Bros. | Delmer Daves | Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi |
The Brigand of Kandahar[57] |