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Emile Charles is an English actor, best known for playing Eddie in the 1988 British Film The Fruit Machine, aka Wonderland (USA).
British Film Critic Mark Kermode tied the film as the Best Film of 2012 along with Berberian Sound Studio.
Among Giants is a 1998 British film directed by Sam Miller, and written by Simon Beaufoy, fresh from his success with The Full Monty.
Anne Crawford (22 November 1920, Haifa - 17 October 1956, London), born Imelda Crawford, was a British film actress.
Blind Flight is a 2003 British film directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache.
Blood Tide, a 1982 British film directed by Richard Jefferies
Butterfly Kiss is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Cheltenham College was used to film the majority of the school scenes in the 1968 British film If...., starring Malcolm McDowell, although an agreement between the school's then Headmaster, David Ashcroft, and the film's director, Lindsay Anderson (who was a former pupil and Senior Prefect), prevented the filmmakers from crediting the school.
It is also interesting to note that Ellis was also the 6th-great-grandfather of the British film actor Donald Pleasence.
Surviving evidence suggests that Counsel's Opinion had a generous budget and relatively high production values for a British film of the early 1930s, with careful attention being paid to elegant and expensive-looking costuming and set design, and special permission being obtained for location filming in London's Middle Temple.
Crest of the Wave (film), the American title of the 1954 British film Seagulls Over Sorrento.
As the British film industry went into decline he moved to the Isle of Wight in 1986, where he began to catalogue the photos of Pamela Green taken in the 1960s and '70s.
In the summer of 1992, in response to media interest roused by rumours about atrocities being committed by Bosnian Serb forces in ad hoc prison camps, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić invited journalists including Roy Gutman, a British film crew from ITN, and the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy to visit the camps.
Fires Were Started (1943) is a British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.
Franklyn is a 2008 British film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow as his debut feature.
Giannina Facio (born September 10, 1955) is a Costa Rican actress, who has appeared in a number of films by British film director and producer Ridley Scott.
Helen Shingler (born 19 August 1919) is a British film actress and the mother of actor Anthony Stewart Head and singer/musician Murray Head.
Peter Illing (1899–1966), Austrian born, British film and television actor
Jacqueline Crump (born 3 August 1948), known professionally by her stage name Jacki Piper, is an English actress, best known for her appearances as the female juvenile lead in the British film comedies Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Carry On Loving (1970), Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), and Carry On Matron (1972).
James Lebon (May 3, 1959 – December 22, 2008) was a British film and music video director who taught fashion photography at London College of Fashion.
Patricia Kneale, (born 1925), British film and television actress.
Having retired completely from the BFI Southbank, Hardcastle became a consultant and eventually a Governor of the British Film Institute.
Born in London, England, MacGrath (pronounced mac-GRAW) began her acting career with a small role in the 1936 British film Whom the Gods Love, a biopic about Mozart and his wife Constanze.
Van Praag also appeared in the 1933 British film Money for Speed which starred John Loder, Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen and Moore Marriott.
Mademoiselle from Armentières was also the name of a 1926 British film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody.
Later in 2005, Ballantyne was given a small role in the British film Cashback (2006), written and directed by Sean Ellis, which starred, among others, Sean Biggerstaff from the Harry Potter films.
The Mudlark – a 1950 British film about a young street boy whose contact with Queen Victoria plays a part in bringing her back to public life after her lengthy mourning for Prince Albert.
The Voice of Merrill, 1952 British film released under this title in the U.S.
It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen.
In 2006, Press starred in Josh Appignanesi's feature film Song of Songs, which won a commendation in the Michael Powell Award for best British film 2005 at the Edinburgh festival.
The Next of Kin, a 1942 British film often called Next of Kin
Paul Danquah (born May 25, 1925, United Kingdom) is a British film actor and lawyer, the son of J. B. Danquah.
For Queen and Country, a 1988 British film starring Denzel Washington.
The song serves as the soundtrack to ITV's UEFA Euro 2012 coverage, British Eurosport's 2012 Tour de France coverage, the theme song to BP's advertising campaign for the 2012 Summer Olympics and features on the soundtrack of British film Victim.
Roy Ward Baker (1916 – 2010), British film director, also credited as Roy Baker
Saint-Ex is a 1997 British film biography of French author-adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, filmed and distributed in the United Kingdom, and featuring Bruno Ganz, Eleanor Bron, and Miranda Richardson.
In 2000, she appeared in NBC's television miniseries In the Beginning featuring concealed frontal nudity for her role of Eve, and in 2002 played a small role in the British film 24 Hour Party People.
The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley.
The Full Monteverdi is a 2007 British film written and directed by John La Bouchardière and based on his live production of the same name, itself based on Claudio Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals (1603) which, in turn, is a collection of settings of poems by such Italian renaissance poets as Giovanni Battista Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and Torquato Tasso.
The British film The Relief of Belsen was screened on 2 May 2011 in partnership with the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations.
The Optimists of Nine Elms, a British film also known as The Optimists
The Silver Fleet (1943) is a British film written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell & Pressburger under the banner of The Archers.
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.
Despite having achieved star-status via previous Gainsborough films such as The Man in Grey and Fanny by Gaslight, and being arguably the top male box-office draw in the country at the time, Mason's dissatisfaction with what he saw as the limitations of the British film industry were evident during the making of the film, and he later admitted that he acted most of his bullying, sadistic role in varying degrees of drunkenness.
God's Gift to Women, also known as Too Many Women, a 1931 British film directed by Michael Curtiz
David Stewart Hull, in his 1969 study of Nazi films, pointed out that the film greatly resembles Farewell Again, a British film directed by Tim Whelan which was made the same year.
Award-winning British film director John Boorman reconstructed a war-time suburban London street on part of the disused runway as the main film set for his autobiographical 1987 film Hope and Glory.
In 1936, he was one of the main investors in J. Arthur Rank's General Cinema Finance Corporation, the company which one year later would become the British film industry's most important company, The Rank Organisation.