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John Van Eyssen is a Actor and Executive Producer Sud africain born on 19 march 1922
John Van Eyssen (born Matthew John Du Toit Van Eyssen, 1922-1995) was a South African born actor, agent and film production executive. He moved to Britain following the Second World War, attending the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Van Eyssen appeared in films from 1950 as well as on stage (playing Cassio in Orson Welles' 1951 production of Othello, for example) but achieved his greatest fame as an actor when he portrayed Jonathan Harker in the Hammer Film Productions version of Dracula (released as Horror of Dracula in the US) in 1958.
He left acting in 1961 to become head of the Grade Organisation literary agency. His subsequent clients were Franco Zeffirelli, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. He left the business in 1965 to work for the UK division of Columbia Pictures, eventually becoming Managing Director in July 1969. Among the films he oversaw were A Man for All Seasons (1966), Born Free (1966), Georgy Girl (1966), To Sir, with Love (1967), The Taming of The Shrew (1967), and Oliver! (1968). Both Oliver! and A Man for All Seasons won Best Picture Academy Awards. In 1970, he was promoted to Worldwide Head of Production (ex-USA) and moved to New York.
After his tenure at Columbia, Van Eyssen became an independent producer, returning to the UK in 1991 to establish Britain's premier showcase for talented young filmmakers, the Chelsea Film Festival. He was longtime companion to Ingrid Bergman in the years before her death in 1982.
His son, David Van Eyssen, is a US-based producer and director known for the webseries RCVR.
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Birth name Matthew John Du Toit Van Eyssen
Nationality South africa
Birth 19 march 1922
Death 13 november 1995 (at 73 years) at Fulham (United-kingdom)
Nationality South africa
Birth 19 march 1922
Death 13 november 1995 (at 73 years) at Fulham (United-kingdom)
Van Eyssen appeared in films from 1950 as well as on stage (playing Cassio in Orson Welles' 1951 production of Othello, for example) but achieved his greatest fame as an actor when he portrayed Jonathan Harker in the Hammer Film Productions version of Dracula (released as Horror of Dracula in the US) in 1958.
He left acting in 1961 to become head of the Grade Organisation literary agency. His subsequent clients were Franco Zeffirelli, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. He left the business in 1965 to work for the UK division of Columbia Pictures, eventually becoming Managing Director in July 1969. Among the films he oversaw were A Man for All Seasons (1966), Born Free (1966), Georgy Girl (1966), To Sir, with Love (1967), The Taming of The Shrew (1967), and Oliver! (1968). Both Oliver! and A Man for All Seasons won Best Picture Academy Awards. In 1970, he was promoted to Worldwide Head of Production (ex-USA) and moved to New York.
After his tenure at Columbia, Van Eyssen became an independent producer, returning to the UK in 1991 to establish Britain's premier showcase for talented young filmmakers, the Chelsea Film Festival. He was longtime companion to Ingrid Bergman in the years before her death in 1982.
His son, David Van Eyssen, is a US-based producer and director known for the webseries RCVR.
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Like Two Drops of Water (1963)
, 1h59Directed by Fons Rademakers
Genres Drama, War
Actors Van Doude, Piet Römer, John Van Eyssen
Rating69%
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, aux Pays-Bas, un jeune homme (blond) du nom de Ducker voit tomber dans le terrain vague en face de chez lui un mystérieux parachutiste (brun) du nom de Dorbeck qui par une troublante coïncidence lui ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau.
A Story of David (1961)
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jeff Chandler, Basil Sydney, Peter Arne, Barbara Shelley, Donald Pleasence, Richard O'Sullivan
Roles Joab
Rating53%
Le roi Saül d'Israël est jaloux de la gloire et l'adoration de David, qui a tué il y a longtemps Goliath et apporté la victoire aux armées de Saül. Saül, poussé par son conseiller édomite Doëg, les tentatives d'avoir David tué. Le fils de Saül, et le meilleur ami de David, Jonathan, conspire pour aider David, qui hésite à se battre contre son propre peuple les Israélites.
The Criminal (1960)
, 1h37Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films
Actors Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan, Laurence Naismith, Margit Saad
Roles Formby
Rating67%
Johnny Bannion, un spécialiste des hold-up est sur le point d'être libéré de prison où il a mis au point un "grand coup" qui doit rapporter une somme exceptionnelle. L'idée lui a été suggérée par un autre prisonnier, Snipe, qui fait désormais partie de sa bande. Lors de sa sortie de prison, Bannion est accueilli par un de ses complices, Carter. L'opération se déroule normalement, mais le comportement de Bannion n'inspire guère confiance et un de ses "amis" le dénonce à la police. À nouveau incarcéré, Bannion apprend que sa maîtresse, Suzanne, a été enlevée et finit par comprendre que l'"ami" en question n'est autre que Carter, et que celui-ci cherche à utiliser Suzanne pour l'obliger à révéler l'endroit où il a planqué le magot. Grâce à ses anciens collaborateurs, passés au service de Carter, Bannion sort de prison à seule fin de leur rendre l'argent volé dont il ne devra toucher, à présent, plus un seul sou. Prisonniers de Carter, Bannion et Suzanne parviennent à s'échapper mais ils sont abattus alors qu'ils tentaient de récupérer l'argent du hold-up.
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
, 1h45Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas
Roles Reporter
Rating70%
After leaving the army and returning to university, newly graduated upper-class Stanley Windrush
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
, 1h28Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Raymond Huntley
Roles Hewitt
Rating61%
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island Gaillardia during the seventeenth century, the feud between two scions of its royal house and Britain's granting the island self-rule in 1916. However, when independence was granted, the Foreign Office (F.O.) failed to recall its ambassador, who is still there forty years later. He writes a letter to the F.O. informing them of Russian moves to annex the island's mineral wealth.
Blind Date (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Peinture
Actors Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, Gordon Jackson, John Van Eyssen, Jack MacGowran
Roles Insp. Westover
Rating66%
Jan Van Rooyer, a painter, has been art teacher to Jacqueline Cousteau, an older woman who becomes his lover. But when she turns up dead, Van Rooyer must explain their relationship to Morgan, a police detective.
Dracula (1958)
, 1h22Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Miles Malleson
Roles Jonathan Harker
Rating71%
In May 1885, Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula near Klausenburg (Cluj), to take up his post as librarian. Inside, he is startled by a young woman who claims she is a prisoner and begs for his help. Dracula then appears to greet Harker and guide him to his room, where he locks him in. Jonathan starts to write in his diary, and his true intentions are revealed: he is a vampire hunter and has come to kill Dracula.
The Whole Truth (1958)
, 1h24Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna Maria Canale, John Van Eyssen, Peter Dyneley
Roles Archer
Rating62%
While making a movie on the French Riviera, the producer Max Poulton has been having an affair with his star, Gina Bertini. A married man, Max does not want to lose his wife Carol, but the hot-tempered Gina threatens to tell all.
Moment of Indiscretion (1958)
, 1h11Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Ronald Howard, Lana Morris, John Van Eyssen, John Witty, Denis Shaw, Ann Lynn
Roles Corby
Rating59%
Janet Miller is accused of murder when the mistress of her ex-fiance is found stabbed. Janet's handkerchief has been discovered at the crime scene, and she is cagey about her whereabouts on the night in question. It turns out she was a witness to the murder, but has her own reasons for keeping quiet. Her lawyer husband John leaps to her defence and attempts to track down the real killer.
Quatermass 2 (1957)
, 1h22Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, William Leo Franklyn, Michael Ripper
Roles The Plant Tour Guide
Rating67%
As Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) struggles to gain government support for his Moon colonisation project, his interest becomes focused on reports of hundreds of meteorites landing in Winnerden Flats. Travelling there with Marsh, his colleague (Bryan Forbes), Quatermass finds a huge complex under construction, based on his lunar colony plans. Marsh discovers that an undamaged meteorite is shaped like a small stone rocket. It then cracks open, releasing a gas, leaving him with an odd V-shaped mark on his face. Black-clad guards from the complex arrive, armed with machine guns and sporting similar V-shaped marks, and take Marsh away, knocking down Quatermass and ordering him away.
The Traitor (1957)
, 1h28Directed by Michael McCarthy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray, Christopher Lee, Jane Griffiths, Carl Jaffe, Anton Diffring
Roles Lieut. Grant
Rating57%
The One That Got Away (1957)
, 1h46Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Hardy Krüger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon, Alec McCowen, Terence Alexander, Jack Gwillim
Roles German Prisoner
Rating70%
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz von Werra (Hardy Krüger) is shot down during the Battle of Britain and captured. He wagers with his RAF interrogator (Michael Goodliffe) at the POW reception centre, Air Defence Intelligence, Cockfosters, near Barnet in Hertfordshire, that he will escape within six months.
Account Rendered (1957)
, 59minutesDirected by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon, Philip Gilbert, John Van Eyssen
Roles Clive Franklyn
Rating60%
When wealthy Lucille Ainsworth is found strangled on Hampstead Heath, Detective Inspector Marshall is put on the case. Lucille's husband Robert suspected her of being unfaithful, and had been following her. But he is just one of many suspects with a motive for murder.
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
, 1h37Directed by José Ferrer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Dora Bryan, Percy Herbert, Victor Maddern
Roles Marine Bradley
Rating64%
Ferrer plays newly promoted Major Stringer of the Royal Marines, who comes up with a novel idea for a raid. By using collapsible canoes, he believes it is possible for commandos to reach an enemy-held harbour undetected and blow up ships with limpet mines. He is given command of a small group of volunteers.
The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
, 1h17Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, David King-Wood, Douglas Wilmer, Ballard Berkeley, Patrick Holt
Roles Will Scarlett
Rating56%
In 1194, on his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is taken prisoner in Germany. Disguised as a troubadour, Robin Hood builds a plan to take out it of this tight spot. Unfortunately, he is captured. The Merry Men then have to fulfil a double mission: find Robin Hood and save the King.