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John Croydon is a Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Recording Supervision British born on 3 november 1907
John Croydon est un directeur de production, puis un producteur de cinéma britannique né le 3 novembre 1907 à Londres et mort en février 1994 à Haywards Heath (Sussex de l'Ouest).
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Birth name John James Croydon
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 november 1907
Death 1 february 1994 (at 86 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 november 1907
Death 1 february 1994 (at 86 years)
Biography
John Croydon commence dans l'industrie du cinéma comme comptable chez Gainsborough Pictures en février 1931, avant d'être directeur de studio dans la branche britannique de la Gaumont en 1932, aux Islington Studios en 1934, aux Sheperd's Bush Studios en 1935. En 1939 il rejoint Michael Balcon aux Ealing Studios, où il deviendra producteur exécutif. En 1946, il quitte Ealing pour les Highbury Studios , devenue filiale de The Rank Organisation. Lorsque ces studios ferment en 1949, il crée sa propre société de production.Usually with
Filmography of John Croydon (33 films)
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The Projected Man (1966)
, 1h17Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney
Rating37%
Dr. Paul Steiner (Bryant Haliday) and Dr. Christopher Mitchell (Ronald Allen) work on a projection device that enables them to transmit any object within a few miles of the machine. While they find the device works with inanimate objects, the living creatures they use it on always seem to die. When Dr. Patricia Hill (Mary Peach) arrives, she helps them fix the error, making Steiner think the problem has been solved. Meanwhile, Dr. Blanchard (Norman Wooland), Steiner's boss and head of the institute he works for, is being blackmailed by Mr. Latham (Derrick De Marney), who wants credit for Steiner's discovery. He forces Blanchard to demand Steiner to give a premature presentation to Professor Lembach (Gerard Heinz).
First Man into Space (1959)
, 1h18Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Dans l'espace, Aviation films, Space opera
Actors Marshall Thompson, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres, Carl Jaffe, Roger Delgado
Rating53%
U. S. Navy Cmdr. Charles "Chuck" Prescott (Thompson) is not sure if his brother, Lt. Dan Prescott (Edwards), is the right choice for piloting the rocket powered Y-13 to very high altitude. Capt. Ben Richards (Ayres) of the Air Force Space Command insists that Dan is their best pilot, even though when piloting the Y-12 into the ionosphere, he began experiencing flight difficulties. Upon landing, Dan broke flight regulations by going to see his girlfriend (Landi), rather than immediately filing his flight report. Despite these concerns, Capt. Richards insists that Dan pilot the Y-13 after a thorough check-out and briefing by Dr. Paul von Essen ([Jaffe).
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Antonio Margheriti, Vera Day
Roles Writer
Rating61%
In Victorian London, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, the brutal killer of five women. Twenty years after he is tried and executed for these crimes James Rankin (Karloff), a novelist and social reformer, launches an investigation to prove that Styles is innocent. His search for clues leads him first to the sleazy Judas Hole music hall, where the Strangler picked his victims from the resident can-can dancers and loose women, and then to the prison cemetery of Newgate where Styles was buried - in order to exhume his body. When the killings start again, Rankin's theory seems to be vindicated. However his growing obsession with the case signals a most unwelcome revelation as to the true identity of the murderer.
Operation Malaya (1953)
, 1h17Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events
Actors Chips Rafferty, John Slater
Roles Writer
Rating27%
Scenes from the action of English troops against Communists in Malaya, focusing around the tracking down of a group of communist who killed a rubber planter. Scenes included:
A Piece of Cake (1948)
, 55minutesOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Cyril Fletcher, Betty Astell, Laurence Naismith, Jon Pertwee, Miki Hood, Tamara Lees
Roles Story
Rating55%
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
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The Projected Man (1966)
, 1h17Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney
Roles Producer
Rating37%
Dr. Paul Steiner (Bryant Haliday) and Dr. Christopher Mitchell (Ronald Allen) work on a projection device that enables them to transmit any object within a few miles of the machine. While they find the device works with inanimate objects, the living creatures they use it on always seem to die. When Dr. Patricia Hill (Mary Peach) arrives, she helps them fix the error, making Steiner think the problem has been solved. Meanwhile, Dr. Blanchard (Norman Wooland), Steiner's boss and head of the institute he works for, is being blackmailed by Mr. Latham (Derrick De Marney), who wants credit for Steiner's discovery. He forces Blanchard to demand Steiner to give a premature presentation to Professor Lembach (Gerard Heinz).
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
, 1h43Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Children's films
Actors Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Lila Kedrova, Dennis Price, Nigel Davenport, Gert Fröbe
Roles Producer
Rating64%
A hurricane hits the isle of Jamaica in 1870. The Thorntons (Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean), parents of five children, feel it is time to send the children to England for a more civilized upbringing and education.
The Entertainer (1960)
, 1h36Directed by Tony Richardson, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey
Roles Associate Producer
Rating70%
Jean Rice, a young London art teacher, travels to a seaside resort (not specified but partly filmed in Morecambe) to visit her family. She is emotionally confused, having had a row with her fiancé, who wants her to emigrate with him to Africa. She is also deeply concerned about the Suez Crisis, having seen her soldier brother off to the war. She has attended a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, directed against prime minister Anthony Eden.
First Man into Space (1959)
, 1h18Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Dans l'espace, Aviation films, Space opera
Actors Marshall Thompson, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres, Carl Jaffe, Roger Delgado
Roles Producer
Rating53%
U. S. Navy Cmdr. Charles "Chuck" Prescott (Thompson) is not sure if his brother, Lt. Dan Prescott (Edwards), is the right choice for piloting the rocket powered Y-13 to very high altitude. Capt. Ben Richards (Ayres) of the Air Force Space Command insists that Dan is their best pilot, even though when piloting the Y-12 into the ionosphere, he began experiencing flight difficulties. Upon landing, Dan broke flight regulations by going to see his girlfriend (Landi), rather than immediately filing his flight report. Despite these concerns, Capt. Richards insists that Dan pilot the Y-13 after a thorough check-out and briefing by Dr. Paul von Essen ([Jaffe).
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
, 1h15Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Peter Madden, Tom Watson
Roles Producer
Rating60%
U. S. Air Force Interceptor Command Experimental Station No. 6 is a long-range radar installation located in Winthorp, Manitoba, Canada. Unexplained deaths begin to occur in the general area of a farming village near the American base. Postmortems reveal the victims were murdered and the brains and spinal cords are missing from the corpses; the only clue left behind are two puncture marks at the base of each skull. The locals, however, become convinced that radiation leaks from the radar installation's nuclear-power experiments are the cause of the mysterious deaths.
Corridors of Blood (1958)
, 1h26Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Adrienne Corri, Francis Matthews
Roles Producer
Rating63%
An 1840s British surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe (Christopher Lee). Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Antonio Margheriti, Vera Day
Roles Producer
Rating61%
In Victorian London, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, the brutal killer of five women. Twenty years after he is tried and executed for these crimes James Rankin (Karloff), a novelist and social reformer, launches an investigation to prove that Styles is innocent. His search for clues leads him first to the sleazy Judas Hole music hall, where the Strangler picked his victims from the resident can-can dancers and loose women, and then to the prison cemetery of Newgate where Styles was buried - in order to exhume his body. When the killings start again, Rankin's theory seems to be vindicated. However his growing obsession with the case signals a most unwelcome revelation as to the true identity of the murderer.
Golden Ivory (1954)
, 1h29Directed by George Breakston
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Maureen Connell
Roles Producer
Rating46%
Tall Headlines (1952)
, 1h40Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors André Morell, Flora Robson, Peter Burton, Michael Denison, Jane Hylton, Mervyn Johns
Roles Production Director
Rating58%
Sing Along with Me (1952)
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Cyril Chamberlain, George Curzon
Roles Producer