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John Bryan is a Writer, Producer and Production Design British born on 12 august 1911
John Bryan est un directeur artistique, un chef décorateur et un producteur britannique né le 12 août 1911 à Londres (Angleterre) et mort le 10 juin 1969 dans le Surrey (Angleterre).
Pendant la guerre, il travaille au camouflage, mais aussi à plusieurs productions importantes de Gainsborough Pictures. Après la guerre, il travaille pour Cineguild Productions , notamment sur les films de David Lean.
Pendant les années 1950 et 1960, il devient producteur. Il est membre du jury présidé par Robert Aldrich à la Berlinale 1959.
(1964)
(Production Design)
(1939)
(Art Direction)
(1946)
(Production Design)
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John Bryan commence à travailler dès l'âge de 16 ans comme apprenti chez des décorateurs de théâtre. Il est alors remarqué par Laurence Irving, qui l'engage comme assistant, et avec lequel il travaille sur Les Internationaux et Le Colonel Blood . Plus tard il devient assistant de Vincent Korda, sur Les Mondes futurs.Pendant la guerre, il travaille au camouflage, mais aussi à plusieurs productions importantes de Gainsborough Pictures. Après la guerre, il travaille pour Cineguild Productions , notamment sur les films de David Lean.
Pendant les années 1950 et 1960, il devient producteur. Il est membre du jury présidé par Robert Aldrich à la Berlinale 1959.
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The Spanish Gardener (1956)
, 1h37Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Lyndon Brook, Maureen Swanson, Bernard Lee
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Nicholas Brande s'installe en Espagne avec son père, le diplomate anglais Harrington Brande. Le jeune garçon, solitaire et morne depuis la séparation de ses parents, fait la rencontre de leur nouveau jardinier, José, et se lie rapidement d'amitié avec lui. Cette relation est très mal vécue par Harrington qui fait tout pour séparer son fils du jardinier.
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After the Fox (1966)
, 1h43Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Giorgio Stegani, Richard Talmadge
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films
Actors Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Paolo Stoppa, Victor Mature, Tino Buazzelli, Vittorio De Sica
Roles Producer
Rating63%
The story begins in Cairo where Okra (Akim Tamiroff), using a bikini-clad accomplice (Maria Grazia Buccella) as a distraction, hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold bars into Europe. There are only four master criminals considered able to smuggle the gold: one is French (but so crippled he can barely move his wheelchair); one is Irish (but so nearsighted that he is arrested after trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank); one is German (but so fat he can barely get through a door). The only man cunning enough to outwit Interpol is Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise.
The Girl on the Boat (1962)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Millicent Martin, Norman Wisdom, Richard Briers, Philip Locke, Sheila Hancock, Athene Seyler
Roles Producer
Rating57%
During the 1920s, two young men returning to England on a transatlantic liner fall in love with two fellow passengers.
There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
, 1h47Directed by Stuart Burge
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Alfred Marks, Norman Wisdom, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith, Susannah York, Timothy Bateson
Roles Producer
Rating65%
A naive explosives expert is tricked into working for a criminal gang. The title is taken from the poem There Was a Crooked Man.
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
, 1h37Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Peinture
Actors Kay Walsh, Alec Guinness, Robert Coote, Michael Gough, Reginald Beckwith, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Eccentric painter Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is released from a one-month jail sentence for telephone harassment of his sponsor, Mr Hickson (Ernest Thesiger). Nosey Barbon (Mike Morgan), who wants to be Jimson's protégé, greets Jimson at Wormwood Scrubs, but Jimson tries to discourage Nosey from pursuing painting for a living. Jimson steals Nosey's bike to make his way back to his houseboat, which his older lady friend Coker (Kay Walsh) has been maintaining in Jimson's absence.
The Secret Place (1957)
, 1h38Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Geoffrey Keen, David McCallum, George Selway, George A. Cooper
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Crime heist melodrama set in the bombed out East End of London. A diamond robbery is masterminded by small time crooks, and an adolescent boy finds himself unwittingly caught up in events, after discovering they've hidden the loot in his home.
Windom's Way (1957)
, 1h48Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Robert Flemyng, Natasha Parry, Michael Hordern, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Producer
Rating58%
Sur l'île de Selim, le docteur Alec Windom, défend son hôpital contre la révolte des indigènes qui ont été renvoyés de la plantation voisine.
The Spanish Gardener (1956)
, 1h37Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Lyndon Brook, Maureen Swanson, Bernard Lee
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Nicholas Brande s'installe en Espagne avec son père, le diplomate anglais Harrington Brande. Le jeune garçon, solitaire et morne depuis la séparation de ses parents, fait la rencontre de leur nouveau jardinier, José, et se lie rapidement d'amitié avec lui. Cette relation est très mal vécue par Harrington qui fait tout pour séparer son fils du jardinier.
The Purple Plain (1954)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Parrish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Gregory Peck, Maurice Denham, Brenda De Banzie, Lyndon Brook, Bernard Lee, Anthony Bushell
Roles Producer
Rating64%
Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck), a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, flying de Havilland Mosquitos, a two-seat fighter-bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the ‘’Blitz’’ in London and has become self destructive, seeking to end his life in action. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to a Burmese woman, Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." With Anna's support, Bill begins to recover his emotional stability.
The Million Pound Note (1954)
, 1h30Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gregory Peck, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Jane Griffiths, Bryan Forbes
Roles Producer
Rating67%
In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver (Ronald Squire) and Roderick Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde-White). They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money). The reason for this is that Oliver believes that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick contends that it would actually have to be spent for it to be of any use.
The Card (1952)
, 1h31Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Edward Chapman, Joan Hickson
Roles Producer
Rating69%
The film follows the adventures and misadventures of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, an ambitious young man from a poor background.
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Great Catherine (1968)
Directed by Gordon Flemyng
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins, Akim Tamiroff, Marie Lohr
Roles Production Design
Rating54%
A British officer, Captain Charles Edstaston, is sent to the Russian court of Catherine the Great as an envoy, where he has to contend with the crafty machinations of her chief minister Potemkin.
Becket (1964)
, 2h28Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown
Roles Production Design
Rating77%
During the late 12th century, about 100 years after the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, the Normans have removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a new monarchy, aristocracy, and clerical hierarchy.
The Magic Box (1952)
, 1h58Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, Margaret Rutherford, Janette Scott
Roles Production Design
Rating69%
In 1921, William Friese-Greene, in dire financial straits and separated from his wife, but still working, attends a film conference in London. He is saddened that all the attendees are businessmen interested only in moneymaking. He attempts to speak, but no-one is interested and he sits down. He thinks back to his early pioneering days.
, 2h2Directed by Albert Lewin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Romantic drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Ghost films
Actors Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Marius Goring
Roles Production Design
Rating68%
In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman. The resultant ringing of church bells in the village brings the local police and the resident archaeologist, Geoffrey Fielding (Harold Warrender), to the beach. Fielding returns to his villa, and, breaking the "fourth wall", retells the story of these two people to the audience.