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Hugh Ernest Leo Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) [a], known professionally as John Williams, was an English stage, film and television actor. [2] He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), as Mr. Brogan-Moore in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and as the second "Mr. French ...
Richard Lester: A guide to references and resources (A Reference publication in film). G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0816181858. Sinyard, Neil (1985). The Films of Richard Lester. Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0709933472. Yule, Andrew (April 1995). Richard Lester and the Beatles: A Complete Biography of the Man Who Directed a Hard Day's Night and Help!. Donald I ...
Lester himself makes a brief cameo as an annoyed bystander. John Barry contributed the jazzy score, which features a memorable organ solo by Alan Haven . Jane Birkin , Charlotte Rampling , and Jacqueline Bisset all made their first cinematic appearances in the film as extras, together with Top of the Pops disc girl Samantha Juste .
This is a list of film directors and television directors who were born in the United Kingdom, or lived and/or worked in the UK for a significant part of their career.Some Irish, American and European directors who have spent large portions of their career working in the UK are included on this list.
The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British black comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring an ensemble cast of British comic actors, and based on the play of the same name. It was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film is an absurdist, post-apocalyptic, satirical black comedy.
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British experimental sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey. [ 2 ] It was filmed over two Sundays in 1959, at a cost of around £70 (equivalent to £2,057 in 2023) (including £5 for the rental of a field).
Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. [1] The cast includes Bill Nighy , Rachel Weisz , Michael Gambon , Tom Hughes , Ralph Fiennes , and Judy Davis .
Short film Ring of Bright Water: Jack Couffer: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna: Drama: The Royal Hunt of the Sun: Irving Lerner: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer: Adventure: Run Wild, Run Free: Richard C. Sarafian: John Mills, Mark Lester: Family: Sandy the Seal: Robert Lynn: Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch: Family: Filmed in South Africa in 1965 ...