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Leslie Norman is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor British born on 23 february 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Leslie Norman, parfois nommé Les Norman, est un réalisateur, producteur, monteur et scénariste britannique, né le 23 février 1911 à Londres, ville où il est mort le 18 février 1993.
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Leslie Norman
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 february 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 february 1993 (at 81 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Birth 23 february 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 february 1993 (at 81 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Biography
Il débute au cinéma en 1930 comme monteur, fonction qu'il exerce sur vingt-neuf films, jusqu'en 1949. Comme réalisateur, après une première expérience en 1939, il met en scène neuf autres films entre 1955 et 1968. Il est aussi scénariste (trois films, dont deux réalisés par lui) et producteur (huit films, de 1949 à 1959, le dernier également comme réalisateur). Pour la télévision, il réalise de nombreux épisodes de séries britanniques bien connues entre 1964 et 1979 (dont Le Saint et, ultime contribution, Le Retour du Saint).Usually with
Filmography of Leslie Norman (39 films)
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The Lost Continent (1968)
, 1h31Directed by Leslie Norman, Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley, Nigel Stock, Neil McCallum
Rating55%
The film begins with a ship slowly moving through mist and a pan shot down the vessel reveals an odd collection of people – Spanish conquistadores, priests, pirates, seamen and finally to the captain of ship who is reading the burial rites over a coffin. The coffin is subsequently ditched overboard and the captain asks "What happened to us? How did we all get here...?" The film then cuts back in time to previous events.
Mix Me a Person (1962)
, 1h56Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Donald Sinden, Anne Baxter, Adam Faith, Walter Brown, Carole Ann Ford, Anthony Booth
Rating61%
Phillip Bellamy, a leading barrister, tells his wife, psychiatrist Anne Dyson, about his most recent case defending a young layabout, Harry Jukes, who has apparently shot a policemen on a country road and been found by police still holding the gun. Bellamy is convinced of his guilt, but Anne is less sure. Much of her practice is with troubled young people and she feels there is more to the story than the police evidence.
, 1h50Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Ronald Fraser, David McCallum, John Meillon
Rating66%
During the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942, a seven-strong British sonic warfare (sonic deception) patrol takes refuge in a dilapidated hut at an abandoned tin mine in the Burmese jungle. Tension rises as they lose radio contact with their command force but learn the Japanese are nearby. The plot thickens when a lone Japanese scout stumbles across the hut, and his fate becomes the squad's second dilemma. Sergeant Mitchem, the man in command of the patrol, wants to take the prisoner back to headquarters for interrogation. But as the men argue the prisoner's destiny, tempers flare. Sergeant Mitchem clashes with his contemptuous second-in-command Corporal Johnstone and struggles to maintain discipline among his mutinous charges. The chief culprit is the gruff Private Bamforth, a man who dislikes both authority and the army but gradually becomes the conscience of the detachment.
Spare the Rod (1961)
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence, Richard O'Sullivan, Jean Anderson, Eleanor Summerfield
Rating65%
John Saunders (Bygraves), a supply teacher with progressive anti-corporal punishment views, arrives to take up a post at Worrell Street School in a socially deprived area of East London. He is assigned a class of pupils in their last year before leaving school and finds himself in charge of a group of rebellious, badly-behaved teenagers from poor home backgrounds, with no interest in education, who register their defiance of authority by fighting, throwing classroom furniture around, whistling and laughing during bible readings and smoking in class. The school's headmaster Jenkins (Pleasence) is well-meaning but has long become despondent with the seemingly insurmountable challenges posed by his pupils and is resigned to merely serving out his time until retirement. His view that corporal punishment is the only way to maintain even some semblance of order in the classrooms ("You'll never be able to handle them unless you're as tough as they are") is anathema to Saunders, who states his intention to try all other methods of discipline rather than resort to physical violence.
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Vincent Ball, John Mills, Frank Wilson
Rating59%
Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married; however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl. Roo has had a bad season, losing his place as head of the cane cutting team to a younger man, Dowd.
Dunkirk (1958)
, 2h14Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards, Bernard Cribbins
Rating70%
The film relates the story of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of surrounded British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It does so principally from the viewpoints of two people: a newspaper reporter and a soldier.
The Shiralee (1957)
, 1h39Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Peter Finch, Elizabeth Sellars, Rebecca Smart, George Rose, Bryan Brown, Rosemary Harris
Rating66%
An itinerant rural worker named Macauley —sometimes described as a "swagman" or "swaggie"—suddenly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. Having returned from "walkabout", he finds his wife entwined in the arms of another, and so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. The child is the "shiralee", an Irish or Aboriginal word meaning "swag", or metaphorically, a "burden."[1]
X the Unknown (1956)
, 1h21Directed by Joseph Losey, Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, Edward Chapman, Anthony Newley, Jameson Clark, William Lucas
Rating60%
The film takes place in the Lochmouth region of Scotland, near Glasgow. A group of soldiers are taking turns using a Geiger counter to find a small and harmless hidden source of radioactivity in a wide pit area. Private Lansing (Kenneth Cope) finds another mysterious source of radiation where ground water starts to boil. As the other soldiers begin to run, there is an explosion. Lansing, who was closest to the explosion, dies of radiation burns while another soldier has bad radiation burns to his back. At the site of the explosion, there is a Y-shaped crack in the ground with no apparent bottom. Dr. Royston (Dean Jagger), from a nearby Atomic Energy Laboratory at Lochmouth, is called in to investigate, along with Inspector McGill (Leo McKern), who runs security at the UK Atomic Energy Commission.
The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
, 1h34Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans, Ralph Truman
Rating69%
A senior Royal Air Force officer (Michael Redgrave) is at a dinner party in Hong Kong at which one of those present, (Michael Hordern), talks about a dream he had in which the Air Force Officer and a group of 12 companions are flying from Bangkok in a Dakota which crashes on a rocky shore. The Air Marshal is due to fly to Tokyo the following day, but is not disturbed because many of the details differ from his planned voyage, including using a different kind of aircraft, a Consolidated Liberator.
Too Dangerous to Live (1939)
Directed by Leslie Norman
Actors Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam, Reginald Tate, Greta Gynt, Ronald Adam, Edward Lexy
Scriptwriter
The Shiralee (1957)
, 1h39Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Peter Finch, Elizabeth Sellars, Rebecca Smart, George Rose, Bryan Brown, Rosemary Harris
Rating66%
An itinerant rural worker named Macauley —sometimes described as a "swagman" or "swaggie"—suddenly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. Having returned from "walkabout", he finds his wife entwined in the arms of another, and so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. The child is the "shiralee", an Irish or Aboriginal word meaning "swag", or metaphorically, a "burden."[1]
Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
Directed by Harry Watt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Meredith Edwards, William Simons, Orlando Martins
Rating61%
The film is set in East Africa. It is about a game warden called Bob Payton (Anthony Steel). He is horrified by the destruction of wild animals by ivory hunters. He establishes a wildlife sanctuary. He is attacked by wild animals and must contend with a villainous ivory poacher (Harold Warrender).
A Run for Your Money (1949)
, 1h25Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Hugh Griffith, Clive Morton
Rating63%
Two Welsh coal miners from Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch, David 'Dai Number 9' Jones (Donald Houston) and Thomas 'Twm' Jones (Meredith Edwards), win a contest run by the Echo newspaper. The prize is 100 pounds each, plus the best seats for an important rugby union match between England and Wales at Twickenham. For the naive Welshmen, this is their first trip to England.
Men Like These (1932)
Directed by Walter Summers
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Syd Crossley, Atholl Fleming
Rating17%
Producer
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Vincent Ball, John Mills, Frank Wilson
Roles Producer
Rating59%
Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married; however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl. Roo has had a bad season, losing his place as head of the cane cutting team to a younger man, Dowd.