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Emile Charles

Emile Charles is an English actor, best known for playing Eddie in the 1988 British Film The Fruit Machine, aka Wonderland (USA).


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A Royal Affair

British Film Critic Mark Kermode tied the film as the Best Film of 2012 along with Berberian Sound Studio.

Among Giants

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

Anne Crawford (22 November 1920, Haifa - 17 October 1956, London), born Imelda Crawford, was a British film actress.

Blind Flight

Blind Flight is a 2003 British film directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache.

Bloodtide

Blood Tide, a 1982 British film directed by Richard Jefferies

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Cheltenham College

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.

Clement Ellis

It is also interesting to note that Ellis was also the 6th-great-grandfather of the British film actor Donald Pleasence.

Counsel's Opinion

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

Crest of the Wave (film), the American title of the 1954 British film Seagulls Over Sorrento.

Douglas Webb

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.

Fikret Alić

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

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

Franklyn is a 2008 British film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow as his debut feature.

Giannina Facio

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

Helen Shingler (born 19 August 1919) is a British film actress and the mother of actor Anthony Stewart Head and singer/musician Murray Head.

Illing

Peter Illing (1899–1966), Austrian born, British film and television actor

Jacki Piper

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

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.

Kneale

Patricia Kneale, (born 1925), British film and television actress.

Leslie Hardcastle

Having retired completely from the BFI Southbank, Hardcastle became a consultant and eventually a Governor of the British Film Institute.

Leueen MacGrath

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.

Lionel Van Praag

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

Mademoiselle from Armentières was also the name of a 1926 British film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody.

Martin Ballantyne

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.

Mudlark

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.

Murder Will Out

The Voice of Merrill, 1952 British film released under this title in the U.S.

Nant Ffrancon Pass

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.

Natalie Press

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.

Next of Kin

The Next of Kin, a 1942 British film often called Next of Kin

Paul Danquah

Paul Danquah (born May 25, 1925, United Kingdom) is a British film actor and lawyer, the son of J. B. Danquah.

Queen and Country

For Queen and Country, a 1988 British film starring Denzel Washington.

Redemption Days

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 Baker

Roy Ward Baker (1916 – 2010), British film director, also credited as Roy Baker

Saint-Ex

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.

Terri Seymour

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

The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley.

The Full Monteverdi

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 Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme

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

The Optimists of Nine Elms, a British film also known as The Optimists

The Silver Fleet

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

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.

They Were Sisters

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.

Too Many Women

God's Gift to Women, also known as Too Many Women, a 1931 British film directed by Michael Curtiz

Urlaub auf Ehrenwort

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.

Wisley Airfield

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.

Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal

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.