Bryan Forbes
Birthday: 1926-07-22
Place of Birth: Stratford, London, England, UK
Biography: Bryan Forbes (22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist.
Movies
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai...
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The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...
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Satellite in the Sky
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell...
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Quatermass 2
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the ...
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The Slipper and the Rose
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxiou...
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Restless Natives
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and a...
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The League of Gentlemen
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special pro...
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The World in His Arms
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russian...
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I Was Monty's Double
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery...
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Green Grow the Rushes
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of A...
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Dear Mr. Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for...
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved ...
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A Sense of Carol Reed
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the...
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The Extra Day
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf...
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All Over the Town
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. ...
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The Wooden Horse
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany...
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An Audience with Kenneth Williams
Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a lon...
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Wheel of Fate
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while T...
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An Inspector Calls
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known ...
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The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged All...
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The Million Pound Note
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen wh...
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The Colditz Story
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "esc...
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Appointment in London
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England....
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Sea Devils
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman...
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Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow dir...
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Up to His Neck
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley ...
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A Shot in the Dark
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai...
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Yesterday's Enemy
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold...
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Passage Home
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...
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December Flower
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's strugg...
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King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...
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Now and Forever
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her se...
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It's Great to be Young!
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic n...
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The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring foot...
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