Welcome to the 'glamorous' world of the Script Supervisor
'Once upon a time' there were queues round the block at the local cinema. Patrons were greeted, if lucky, by an organist. Then a familiar film company logo....
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The Gainsborough lady bowing her head |
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MGM's roaring lion |
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The Big Ben clock tower for Alexander Korda's London Films |
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Rank Films' gong being struck by the gleaming figure of Bombardier Billy Wells. (In fact it was a papier mache gong that he struck, the sound was made by percussionist, James Blades, striking a Chinese gong.) |
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Before multi channel television and DVD's came along "going to the cinema" was an exciting, once-weekly event. People went to see what ever was on, a main plus second feature or even a double bill! The team that made those films, whether they were melodramas, patriotic propaganda, literary adaptations, comedy, musicals, quirky individual statements, action adventure, or even TV spin offs, is effectively the same today as it was then. |
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A key member of that team was, and still is, THE CONTINUITY SCRIPT SUPERVISOR. Observation, adaptability, diplomacy and dedication are essential qualities for this challenging role - to say nothing of stamina! Records of the contribution of such key personnel were rarely kept in the early days of film making. On screen credits were slow in coming. |
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Here's a mention of some of those early Script Supervisors
and a few of their memorable credits. This list, spanning the 1930's
to the 1970's, also presents an intriguing time capsule of that era, mentioning as it does some films that set a 'benchmark' for the time - as in "Come Play with Me", an almost pornographic film directed by George Harrison Marks (which has an interesting history all of its own), and a film, which should be on the list but has no recorded Script Supervisor "The Private Life of Henry VIII", the success of which confirmed the financing of Denham Film Studio. The credits of a particular Script Supervisor are not, therefore, necessarily the biggest pictures in her resume, but may be memorable for an historical reason. |
ANGELA ALLEN |
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The Happiest Days of Your Life The African Queen Moby Dick The Misfits The Dirty Dozen The Charge of the Light Brigade ('68) Women in Love Jesus Christ Superstar Murder on the Orient Express The Man Who Would be King |
Frank Launder John Huston John Huston John Huston Robert Aldrich Tony Richardson Ken Russell Norman Jewison Sidney Lumet John Huston |
PADDY ARNOLD |
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The Silver Fleet A Canterbury Tale I Know Where I'm Going I see A Dark Stranger Green for Danger Chance of a Lifetime The Holly and the Ivy
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Vernon Sewell Michael Powell Michael Powell Frank Launder Sidney Gilliatt Bernard Miles George More O'Ferrall |
YVONNE AXWORTHY |
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Caesar and Cleopatra Encore The Million Pound Note Genevieve All For Mary The Truth About Women The Horse's Mouth Romanoff and Juliet Avanti |
Gabriel Pascal French. Jackson. Pelissier Ronald Neame Henry Cornelius Wendy Toye Muriel Box Ronald Neame Peter Ustinov Billy Wilder |
SHIRLEY BARNES |
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Old Mother Riley's New Venture Seven Days to Noon Another Man's Poison Reach For The Sky The Admirable Crichton Carve Her Name With Pride The Hound of the Baskervilles ('59) Sink The Bismarck The Grass Is Greener |
John Harlow Roy Boulting Irving Rapper Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Terence Fisher Lewis Gilbert Stanley Donen |
ZELDA BARRON |
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And Now For Something Completely Different Dad's Army Steptoe and Son Valentino Agatha Yanks |
Ian MacNaughton Norman Cohen Cliff Owen Ken Russell Michael Apted John Schlesinger |
JOAN BARRY |
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Henry V ('44) The Way To The Stars Last Holiday ('50) |
Laurence Olivier Anthony Asquith Henry Cass |
BERYL BOOTH |
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Portrait of Alison Carrington VC Lucky Jim Brothers In Law The Angry Silence Murder She Said |
Guy Green Anthony Asquith John Boulting Roy Boulting Guy Green George Pollock |
VALERIE BOOTH |
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Privilege If Ann of a Thousand Days 10 Rillington Place O Lucky Man |
Peter Watkins Lindsay Anderson Charles Jarrott Richard Fleischer Lindsay Anderson |
OLGA BROOK |
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall Odd Man Out Reluctant Heroes Folly To Be Wise The October Man The Belles of St. Trinian's Its a Great Day (aka The Grove Family) Private's Progress The Green Man I'm Alright Jack Across The Bridge Heavens Above |
Basil Dearden & Will Hay Carol Reed Jack Raymond Frank Launder Roy Ward Baker Frank Launder John Warrington John Boulting Robert Day John Boulting Ken Annakin John & Roy Boulting |
JANE BUCK |
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The Smallest Show on Earth Night of the Eagle The Knack..... And How to Get It Georgy Girl Porridge The Dock Brief |
Basil Dearden Sidney Hayers Richard Lester Silvio Narizzano Dick Clement James Hill |
BETTY CALAGHAN |
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The Way Ahead Perfect Strangers |
Carol Reed Alexander Korda |
PAMELA CARLTON |
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I Was Monty's Double The Day the Earth Caught Fire Dr. Strangelove The Yellow Rolls Royce 2001: A Space Odyssey The Lion In Winter The Night Comers |
John Guillermin Val Guest Stanley Kubrick Anthony Asquith Stanley Kubrick Anthony Harvey Michael Winner |
BARBARA COLE |
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The Maggie The Colditz Story A King In New York Carlton-Browne of the F.O. Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago |
Alexander Mackendrick Guy Hamilton Charles Chaplin Roy Boulting & Jeffrey Dell David Lean David Lean |
PHYLLIS CROCKER |
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Hue and Cry Kind Hearts and Coronets The Lavender Hill Mob Father Brown Fortune is a Woman Law and Disorder ('58) Becket The Deadly Affair Ryan's Daughter |
Charles Crichton Robert Hamer Sidney Gilliat Robert Hamer Sidney Gilliat Charles Crichton Peter Glenville Sidney Lumet David Lean |
BETTY CURTIS |
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49th Parallel One of Our Aircraft is Missing In Which We Serve |
Michael Powell Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Noel Coward & David Lean |
PENNY DANIELS |
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Tiger in the Smoke A Night to Remember The League of Gentlemen ('60) Make Mine Mink Whistle Down the Wind Waltz of the Toreadors The L Shaped Room Sky West And Crooked Where Eagles Dare Saturn 3 |
Roy Ward Baker Roy Ward Baker Basil Dearden Robert Asher Bryan Forbes John Guillermin Bryan Forbes John Mills Bryan G. Hutton Stanley Donen |
PAMELA DAVIES |
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Home at Seven The Captain's Paradise Richard III ('55) The Guns of Navarone Lolita ('62) A Kind of Loving The Servant The Pumpkin Eater Oliver The Go Between The Straw Dogs |
Ralph Richardson Anthony Kimmins Laurence Olivier J. Lee Thompson Stanley Kubrick John Schlesinger Joseph Losey Jack Clayton Carol Reed Joseph Losey Sam Peckinpah |
JOAN DAVIS |
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The Importance of Being Earnest ('52) Doctor in the House A Town Like Alice Carry on Sergeant Victim The Third Secret The Mask of the Red Death On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
Anthony Asquith Ralph Thomas Jack Lee Gerald Thomas Basil Dearden Charles Crichton Roger Corman Peter R. Hunt |
ANNABEL DAVIS-GOFF |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Performance Walkabout The Great Gatsby |
Ronald Neame Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell Nicolas Roeg Jack Clayton |
RITA DAVISON |
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Escapade Peeping Tom Tunes of Glory Mr. Topaze A Taste of Honey The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tom Jones A Hard Day's Night |
Philip Leacock Michael Powell Ronald Neame Peter Sellers Tony Richardson Tony Richardson Tony Richardson Richard Lester |
TILLY DAY (aka Lilian G Day) |
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde Her First Affaire Vice Versa The Rocking Horse Winner The Clouded Yellow Too Many Crooks Sapphire Never Take Sweets from a Stranger Cash On Demand Up Pompeii |
Captain G. Banfield Allan Dwan Peter Ustinov Anthony Pelissier Ralph Thomas Mario Zampi Basil Dearden Cyril Frankel Quentin Lawrence Bob Kellett |
DOREEN DEARNALEY |
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Dracula ('58) Hell is a City Charlie Bubbles Get Carter ('71) On The Buses |
Terence Fisher Val Guest Albert Finney Mike Hodges Harry Booth |
SPLINTERS DEASON |
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Life with the Lyons Follow a Star 80,000 Suspects The Intelligence Men |
Val Guest Robert Asher Val Guest Robert Asher |
WINNIFRED DYER |
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Black Narcissus Mine Own Executioner |
Michael Powell Anthony Kimmins |
SUSAN DYSON |
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House of Secrets High Tide at Noon Tiger Bay The Battle of the Sexes Life for Ruth The Mind Benders Only When I Larf The Assassination Bureau |
Guy Green Philip Leacock J. Lee Thompson Charles Crichton Basil Dearden Basil Dearden Basil Dearden Basil Dearden |
ELIZABETH EVERSON |
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Hamlet ('48) Odette |
Laurence Olivier Herbert Wilcox |
JUNE FAITHFUL |
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Calling Paul Temple The Last Days of Dolwyn The Franchise Affair Laughter in Paradise ('51) The Magic Box Now and Forever ('56) Woman in a Dressing Gown Billy Budd |
Maclean Rogers Emlyn Williams Lawrence Huntington Mario Zampi John Boulting Mario Zampi J. Lee Thompson Peter Ustinov |
KAY FENTON |
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Bugsy Malone The Duellists Midnight Express Firepower Alien |
Alan Parker Ridley Scott Alan Parker Michael Winner Ridley Scott |
BETTY FORSTER |
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The Heart of the Matter The Sea Shall Not Have Them The End of the Affair ('55) Footsteps in the Fog The Cockleshell Heroes |
George More O'Ferrall Lewis Gilbert Edward Dmytryk Arthur Lubin Jose Ferrer |
JOSIE FULFORD |
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The Family Way Baby Love Age of Innocence |
Roy Boulting Alastair Reid Alan Bridges |
PAMELA GAYLER |
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The Long Arm Night of the Demon Chase a Crooked Shadow The Good Companions ('57) |
Charles Frend Jacques Tourneur Michael Anderson J. Lee Thompson |
RENEE GLYNNE |
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The Adventures of PC49 The Quatermass Xperiment The Nanny Casino Royale ('67) The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins The Likely Lads Aces High |
Godfrey Grayson Val Guest Seth Holt Guest/Hughes/ Huston/McGrath/ Parrish Graham Stark Michael Tuchner Jack Gold |
GLADYS GOLDSMITH |
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman Conspiracy of Hearts No Love for Johnnie The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
Joseph Losey Ralph Thomas Ralph Thomas Robert Fuest |
JEAN GRAHAM |
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Scott of the Antarctic Passport to Pimlico The Blue Lamp Where No Vultures Fly Mandy The Cruel Sea The Ship That Died of Shame The Shiralee Barnacle Bill |
Charles Frend Henry Cornelius Basil Dearden Harry Watt Alexander Mac- kendrick Charles Frend Basil Dearden Leslie Norman Charles Frend |
GEORGINA HAMILTON |
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One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother Let's Get Laid Candle Shoe Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe The Spaceman and King Arthur |
Robert Stevenson Gene Wilder James Kenelm Clarke Norman Tokar Ted Kotcheff Russ Mayberry |
JO HARCOURT |
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Cottage to Let We Dive at Dawn The Winslow Boy ('48) |
Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith |
BETTY HARLEY |
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The Late Edwina Black The Battle of the River Plate Windom's Way Murder at the Gallop Blow Up Burke and Hare |
Maurice Elvey Michael Powell Ronald Neame George Pollock Michelangelo Antonioni Vernon Sewell |
EILEEN HEAD |
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Bonjour Tristesse The Amorous Prawn She Khartoum Funeral in Berlin Til Death Us Do Part Scream And Scream Again |
Otto Preminger Anthony Kimmins Robert Day Basil Dearden & Eliot Elisofon Guy Hamilton Norman Cohen Gordon Hessler |
DAPHNE HEATHCOTE |
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The Dancing Years Went the Day Well My Learned Friend Dead of Night |
Harold French Alberto Cavalcanti Basil Dearden & Will Hay Cavalcanti / Crichton / Dearden / Hamer |
KATHLEEN HOSGOOD |
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The Final Test Trouble in Store Simon and Laura Eyewitness |
Anthony Asquith John Paddy Carstairs Muriel Box Muriel Box |
MAISIE KELLY |
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The Ghost Train Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It The Wicked Lady ('45) Anna Karenina ('48) Cry The Beloved Country ('51) The Crimson Pirate Curtain Up |
Walter Forde Walter Forde Leslie Arliss Julien Duvivier Zoltan Korda Robert Siodmak Ralph Smart |
JOAN KIRK |
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Ice Cold in Alex No Trees in the Street Sammy Going South |
J.Lee Thompson J.Lee Thompson Alexander Mackendrick
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JOSEPHINE KNOWLES |
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Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush Marat / Sade Rocket to the Moon Alfred the Great |
Clive Donner Peter Brook Don Sharp Clive Donner |
MARJORIE LAVELLY |
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Robberty Under Arms The Mummy ('59) French Dressing Stevie |
Jack Lee Terence Fisher Ken Russell Robert Evans |
PEGGY McCLAFFERTY |
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Quiet Wedding London Town An Ideal Husband ('47) The Fallen Idol The Third Man Night and the City |
Anthony Asquith Wesley Ruggles Alexander Korda Carol Reed Carol Reed Jules Dassin |
KAY MANDER |
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From Russia With Love The Heroes of Telemark Dateline Diamonds Fahrenheit 451 Tommy The Human Factor |
Terence Young Anthony Mann Jeremy Summers Francois Truffaut Ken Russell Otto Preminger |
FELICIA MANHEIM |
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The Man in the White Suit The Titfield Thunderbolt The Night My Number Came Up The Ladykillers ('55) |
Alexander Mackendrick Charles Crichton Leslie Norman Alexander Mackendrick |
PAMELA MANN FRANCIS |
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning A Taste of Fear The Innocents ('61) This Sporting Life Billy Liar |
Karel Reisz Seth Holt Jack Clayton Lindsay Anderson John Schlesinger
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ANGELA MARTELLI |
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Calling Bulldog Drummond Ivanhoe ('52) Bhowani Junction The Bridge on the River Kwai Sons and Lovers The Wrong Arm of the Law The Spy Who Came In From the Cold Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Railway Children Frenzy |
Victor Saville Richard Thorpe George Cukor David Lean Jack Cardiff Cliff Owen Martin Ritt Ken Hughes Lionel Jeffries Alfred Hitchcock |
DORIS MARTIN |
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Radio Cab Murder Decline and Fall |
Vernon Sewell John Krish
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JOY MERCER |
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Very Important Person Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Battle of the Bulge Hot Millions Bless This House |
Ken Annakin Ken Annakin Ken Annakin Eric Till Gerald Thomas
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DOREEN MERRIMAN (aka FRANCIS. JONES. NORTH) |
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The Red Shoes The Small Back Room Sailor Beware Room at the Top |
Michael Powell Michael Powell Gordon Parry Jack Clayton |
SUSANNA MERRY |
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Murphy's War The Boy Friend Au Pair Girls The Wicker Man ('73) The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Man Who Fell To Earth |
Peter Yates Ken Russell Val Guest Robin Hardy Jim Sherman Nicolas Roeg |
PAT MOON |
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Emergency Danger By My Side The Ipcress File Shalako |
Francis Searle Charles Saunders Sidney J. Furie Edward Dmytryk |
M. NORTON |
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Demobbed The Seventh Veil 29 Acacia Avenue |
John E Blakeley Compton Bennett Henry Cass
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THELMA ORR |
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The Dam Busters Yield To The Night |
Michael Anderson J. Lee Thompson
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MARJORIE OWENS |
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Just William's Luck Whisky Galore! The Queen of Spades Train of Events Angels One Five Pay Roll |
Val Guest Alexander Mackendrick Thorold Dickinson Cole/Crichton/ Dearden George More O'Ferrall Sidney Hayers |
BUNNY PARSONS |
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A Matter of Life and Death |
Michael Powell |
JUNE RANDALL |
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Here Come the Huggetts Look Back In Anger The Anniversary A Clockwork Orange Lady Caroline Lamb Barry Lyndon Are You Being Served The Spy Who Loved Me |
Ken Annakin Tony Richardson Roy Ward Baker Stanley Kubrick Robert Bolt Stanley Kubrick Bob Kellett Lewis Gilbert |
KAY RAWLINGS |
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How To Murder A Rich Uncle The Naked Truth The Flesh and the Fiends A Prize of Arms Born Free The Birthday Party Fear is the Key |
Nigel Patrick Mario Zampi John Gilling Cliff Owen James Hill William Friedkin Michael Tuchner |
GLADYS REEVE |
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Brighton Rock Up The Creek ('58) |
John Boulting Val Guest |
ALMA REVILLE |
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The 39 Steps ('35) Secret Agent Sabotage ('36) The Lady Vanishes ('38)
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Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock |
YVONNE RICHARDS |
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Danger Within Drop Dead Darling To Sir With Love Carry On Up The Khyber
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Don Chaffey Ken Hughes James Clavell Gerald Thomas |
PHYLLIS ROSS |
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Contraband Dangerous Moonlight The True Story of Lilli Marlene Thunder Rock Western Approaches |
Michael Powell Brian Desmond Hurst Humphrey Jennings Roy Boulting Pat Jackson |
BARBARA ROWLAND |
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Sparrows Can't Sing Hostile Witness The File of the Golden Goose Two Gentlemen Sharing Every Home Should Have One |
Joan Littlewood Ray Milland Sam Wanamaker Ted Kotcheff Jim Clark |
ROSAIRE RUTLAND |
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Sally In Our Alley The Ringer The Water Gypsies
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Maurice Elvey Walter Forde Maurice Elvey |
ELAINE SCHREYECK |
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The Cure For Love Happy Ever After The Prince and the Showgirl Gideon's Day The Nun's Story Suddenly Last Summer The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Battle of Britain Fiddler on the Roof Superman
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Robert Donat Mario Zampi Laurence Olivier John Ford Fred Zinnemann Joseph L. Mankiewitz Billy Wilder Guy Hamilton Norman Jewison Richard Donner |
LORNA SELWYN |
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Rasputin The Mad Monk The Plank Ulysses The Witchfinder General Come Play With Me |
Don Sharp Eric Sykes Joseph Strick Michael Reeves George Harrison Marks |
PEGGY SINGER (aka ROBERTSON) |
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George in Civvy Street Silent Dust Under Captricorn
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Marcel Varnel Lance Comfort Alfred Hitchcock |
ANN SKINNER |
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Darling Far From The Madding Crowd Isadora Oh! What A Lovely War Sunday Bloody Sunday The Devils Young Winston Star Wars
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John Schlesinger John Schlesinger Karel Reisz Richard Attenborough John Schlesinger Ken Russell Richard Attenborough George Lucas |
DOREEN SOAN |
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The Curse of Frankenstein The Sorcerers Mosquito Squadron A Warm December Arabian Adventure |
Terence Fisher Michael Reeves Boris Segal Sidney Poitier Kevin Connor |
HAZEL SWIFT |
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Brandy for the Parson Roman Holiday Yangtse Incident The Haunting ('63) |
John Eldridge William Wyler Michael Anderson Robert Wise |
PHYLLIS TOWNSEND |
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Tomorrow At Ten The Face of Fu Manchu Sandy the Seal Please Sir The Internecine Project
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Lance Comfort Don Sharp Robert Lynn Mark Stuart Ken Hughes |
LEE TURNER |
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Dunkirk Village of the Damned ('60) Two Way Stretch Only Two Can Play The Caretaker The Hill
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Leslie Norman Wolf Rilla Robert Day Sidney Gilliat Clive Donner Sidney Lumet |
MARGARET UNSWORTH (aka SHIPLEY. SIBLEY) |
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Blithe Spirit Brief Encounter ('45) Great Expectations ('46) Oliver Twist ('48) The Browning Version ('51) Hobson's Choice ('54) Our Man in Havana The Entertainer Cromwell
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Michael Powell David Lean David Lean David Lean David Lean Anthony Asquith David Lean Carol Reed Tony Richardson Ken Hughes |
DEE VAUGHAN |
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Repulsion Cul de Sac
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Roman Polanski Roman Polanski |
HELEN WHITSON |
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The Siege of Pinchgut School for Scoundrels ('60) The Trials of Oscar Wilde Johnny Nobody The Young Ones Dr. No A High Wind in Jamaica Robbery The Italian Job ('69) |
Harry Watt Robert Hamer Ken Hughes Nigel Patrick Sidney J. Furie Terence Young Alexander Mackendrick Peter Yates Peter Collinson |
CONNIE WILLIS |
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Trio A Shot in the Dark Goldfinger A Man For All Seasons ('66) Sinful Davey Heironymus Merkin Tales That Witness Madness A Bridge Too Far Death on the Nile |
Ken Annakin & Harold French Blake Edwards Guy Hamilton Fred Zinnemann John Huston Anthony Newley Freddie Francis Richard Attenborough John Guillermin |
HAZEL WILKINSON |
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Pygmalion Come on George The Four Just Men The First of the Few Stolen Life |
Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard Anthony Kimmins Walter Forde Leslie Howard Paul Czinner |
EVE WILSON |
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Undercover Girl Circus of Fear Blood Beast Terror The Girl on a Motorcycle The Fiend |
Francis Searle John Moxey Vernon Sewell Jack Cardiff Robert Hartford- Davis |
JOAN WYATT |
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Mrs Fitzherbert The Ghosts of Berkeley Square My Brother Jonathan The Hasty Heart |
Montgomery Tully Vernon Sewell Harold French Vincent Sherman |