Bryan Forbes
Popularity:0.341
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1926-07-22
Place of Birth:Stratford, London, England, UK
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Also Known As:John Theobald Clarke

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from...

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range...

Satellite in the Sky (1956)
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).

Quatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the...

Restless Natives (1985)
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of...

The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...

The World in His Arms (1952)
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

I Was Monty's Double (1958)
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions...

Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)
Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as...

A Sense of Carol Reed (2006)
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree'...

The Extra Day (1956)
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's...

All Over the Town (1949)
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

The Wooden Horse (1950)
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

An Audience with Kenneth Williams (1983)
Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a long look back at his career - from his time...

Wheel of Fate (1953)
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over...

An Inspector Calls (1954)
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious...

The Key (1958)
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives...

The Million Pound Note (1954)
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...

The Colditz Story (1955)
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a...

Appointment in London (1953)
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will...

Empire of the Censors (1995)
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

Sea Devils (1953)
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells...

Hitchcock at the N.F.T. (1969)
In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow director Bryan Forbes and to answer questions from...

Up to His Neck (1954)
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.

A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic...

Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the...

Passage Home (1955)
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a...

December Flower (1984)
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...

King Rat (1965)
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi...

Now and Forever (1956)
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

It's Great to be Young! (1956)
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins...

The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby....

The Small Back Room (1949)
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...

The Stepford Life (2001)
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).

Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things (1973)
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France,...

I Am a Dancer (1972)
Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things (1973)

Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things (1973)

An Audience with... (1978)
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood (1989)
Two-part documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was once the biggest film production centre outside Hollywood: Elstree.

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood (1970)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on...