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George Maynard is a Director and Producer British born on 18 may 1909 at London (United-kingdom)
George Maynard (1909–1976) was a British film producer. During the 1950s and 1960s he produced a number of independent films. Maynard had earlier worked as a production manager at several British studios.
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Zeta One (1969)
, 1h22Directed by George Maynard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey, Anna Gaël, Dawn Addams, Valerie Leon, Brigitte Skay
Rating39%
Une race de femmes de la planète Angvia, dans une autre dimension, viennent sur terre pour kidnapper des femmes afin de repeupler leur planète.
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Zeta One (1969)
, 1h22Directed by George Maynard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey, Anna Gaël, Dawn Addams, Valerie Leon, Brigitte Skay
Roles Producer
Rating39%
Une race de femmes de la planète Angvia, dans une autre dimension, viennent sur terre pour kidnapper des femmes afin de repeupler leur planète.
A Matter of Choice (1963)
Directed by Vernon Sewell
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Anthony Steel, Ballard Berkeley, James Bree
Roles Producer
Rating63%
A Prize of Arms (1962)
, 1h45Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Heist films
Actors Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Tom Bell, John Phillips, Patrick Magee, John Westbrook
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Three criminals have hatched a plan to rob an army barracks. The troops are about to be dispatched to take part in a war in the Middle East and there is believed to be a large amount of pay on the premises, to be shipped out with them.
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
, 1h52Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser, Noel Purcell, Roy Chiao
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Mark Conrad, a debonair Anglo-Austrian former playboy and junk owner, now an alcoholic down-and-out, is expelled from Hong Kong. He is placed on an ancient ferry boat, the Fa Tsan (known to its crew as the Fat Annie), despite the protests of the pompous owner, Captain Cecil Hart.
, 1h15Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Alec Mango, Forrest Tucker, Martin Benson, Gaby Andreu, Wyndham Goldie, Dandy Nichols
Roles Producer
Rating48%
A monomaniacal scientist, Dr. Laird (played by Alec Mango), has invented ultra-sensitive magnetic fields, which attracts objects from space. Strange things begin happening, including a freak storm, and insects and spiders mutate into giant monsters. An alien spaceship appears over London and mankind is warned against the dangers of this scientific experiment.
Home and Away (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dame Thora Hird, Lana Morris, Charles Victor, Harry Fowler
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Johnny, You're Wanted (1956)
, 1h10Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Slater, Alfred Marks, Garry Marsh, John Stuart, Frank Thornton, Ann Lynn
Roles Executive Producer
Rating58%
Johnny (Slater) is a long-distance lorry driver returning to London from a provincial delivery, after having taken in a show by Joan Rhodes on the way. Late at night he stops to give a lift to an attractive female hitchhiker whose car has broken down and who is in a hurry to get to back to London. Later, Johnny pulls in to a transport café to make a telephone call and buy a coffee. When he returns to his truck, the woman is gone. Assuming that in her hurry she has picked up a lift with another driver, he goes on his way, and a few miles down the road is flagged down by another driver to help with a woman who has been found laid at the roadside. It turns out that the woman is Johnny's hitchhiker, and that she is dead.
Where There's a Will (1955)
, 1h20Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Leslie Dwyer, Michael Shepley, Dandy Nichols, Edward Lexy
Roles Producer
Rating61%
When their Uncle dies without leaving a will, his farm passes to his three London nephew and nieces. While two of them wish to sell the place the third, Fred Slater, has ideas of setting up as a farmer. Facing the hostility of his family, and some of the locals, he attempts to improve the farm before its mortgage is called in.
Radio Cab Murder (1954)
, 1h10Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris, Sonia Holm, Jack Allen, Rupert Evans, Samuel John Kydd
Roles Producer
Rating61%
After serving a term in prison for safe-cracking, Fred Morris finds work as a Taxicab driver. He is approached by a gang that recruits ex-cons, but, wishing to go straight, he informs the police and they send him undercover to join the gang and expose its leader. But the gang discovers Morris's identity and tries to kill him by locking him in a deep freezer. He is saved by his cabby friends who ride to the rescue and corner the crooks.
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans, Bernard Lee, Nicholas Phipps, Michael Shepley
Roles Production Manager
Rating60%
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Roger Moore, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby, Brenda Bruce
Roles Producer
Rating63%
A married woman is believed dead in a shipwreck, but returns home with the Second World War at its height to find her husband remarried.
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies
Actors Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Kim Hunter, Charles Hawtrey, Esmond Knight
Roles Production Manager
Rating72%
The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price), U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson (played by real-life Sergeant John Sweet), and a "Land Girl", Miss Alison Smith (Sheila Sim). The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small Kent town of Chillingbourne (filmed in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux and other villages in the area), near Canterbury, late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by mistake, hearing the announcement "next stop Canterbury" and thinking he was in Canterbury.
The Silver Fleet (1943)
, 1h28Directed by Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Frederick Burtwell, Kathleen Byron, Charles Victor
Roles Production Manager
Rating67%
In the early years of World War II, the Nazis have overrun the Netherlands and have taken over the shipyard co-owned and run by Jaap van Leyden (Ralph Richardson). The yard was making submarines for the Dutch Navy. The German 'Protector' Von Schiffer (Esmond Knight) demands that they resume making submarines, but for the Nazis. By lowering food rations to starvation point, they induce some of the skilled workers to return to the yard.