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Roger MacDougall is a Scriptwriter and Script Ecossais born on 2 august 1910 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Roger MacDougall est un auteur dramatique et scénariste britannique, né le 2 août 1910 à Glasgow (Écosse) et mort le 27 mai 1993 à Northwood (Angleterre).
Il accède à la notoriété au début des années 1950 grâce au film L'Homme au complet blanc (The Man in the White Suit) avec Alec Guinness, écrit en collaboration avec John Dighton et Alexander Mackendrick d'après sa propre pièce, qui lui vaut une nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur scénario en 1953.
On lui doit également entre autres les scénarios de La Souris qui rugissait avec Peter Sellers et Un brin d'escroquerie (A Touch of Larceny) avec James Mason (1959), ainsi que les paroles de plusieurs chansons.
Il est l'auteur de nombreuses pièces à succès dont The Gentle Gunman, To Dorothy a Son, MacAdam and Eve (1950), Escapade (1952), The Facts of Life (1954), The Delegate (1955), Hide and Seek (1957), Trouble With Father (1964) et Jack in the Box (1971). Sa pièce la plus célèbre est Double Image, écrite en collaboration avec Ted Allan et créée en 1956 par Laurence Olivier et Richard Attenborough au Savoy Theatre de Londres. Elle connaîtra un immense succès en France sous le titre de Gog et Magog, adaptation de Gabriel Arout, mise en scène de François Périer, avec Jacqueline Maillan, François Périer, René Blancard et Teddy Bilis au Théâtre de la Michodière (plus de 1000 représentations).
À la fin des années 1950, MacDougall développe une sclérose en plaques, devant laquelle le corps médical s'avère encore impuissant. Il parvient à la contrôler grâce un régime pauvre en glucides, dit régime paléolithique et publiera à ce sujet de nombreux articles dans la presse.
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Roger MacDougall
Il accède à la notoriété au début des années 1950 grâce au film L'Homme au complet blanc (The Man in the White Suit) avec Alec Guinness, écrit en collaboration avec John Dighton et Alexander Mackendrick d'après sa propre pièce, qui lui vaut une nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur scénario en 1953.
On lui doit également entre autres les scénarios de La Souris qui rugissait avec Peter Sellers et Un brin d'escroquerie (A Touch of Larceny) avec James Mason (1959), ainsi que les paroles de plusieurs chansons.
Il est l'auteur de nombreuses pièces à succès dont The Gentle Gunman, To Dorothy a Son, MacAdam and Eve (1950), Escapade (1952), The Facts of Life (1954), The Delegate (1955), Hide and Seek (1957), Trouble With Father (1964) et Jack in the Box (1971). Sa pièce la plus célèbre est Double Image, écrite en collaboration avec Ted Allan et créée en 1956 par Laurence Olivier et Richard Attenborough au Savoy Theatre de Londres. Elle connaîtra un immense succès en France sous le titre de Gog et Magog, adaptation de Gabriel Arout, mise en scène de François Périer, avec Jacqueline Maillan, François Périer, René Blancard et Teddy Bilis au Théâtre de la Michodière (plus de 1000 représentations).
À la fin des années 1950, MacDougall développe une sclérose en plaques, devant laquelle le corps médical s'avère encore impuissant. Il parvient à la contrôler grâce un régime pauvre en glucides, dit régime paléolithique et publiera à ce sujet de nombreux articles dans la presse.
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Filmography of Roger MacDougall (17 films)
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A Touch of Larceny (1960)
, 1h33Directed by Guy Hamilton, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Ollie Johnston, Robert Flemyng, Duncan Lamont
Rating66%
A naval war hero but a bit of a scoundrel, Commander Max Easton has a position with the Admiralty but spends most of his time playing squash and pursuing women.
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
, 1h18Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Political films
Actors Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, Leo McKern, Timothy Bateson, Georg Thomalla
Rating68%
The minuscule European duchy of Grand Fenwick is bankrupted when an American company comes up with a cheaper imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American largesse toward its defeated enemies to rebuild the nation's economy. Grand Duchess Gloriana (also Sellers) is hesitant, but agrees to the plan. Mild-mannered game warden Tully Bascome (also Sellers) is charged as Field Marshal to lead the Fenwick troops, aided by sergeant Will Buckley (William Hartnell).
Escapade (1955)
, 1h27Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim, Jeremy Spenser, Peter Asher, Andrew Ray
Roles Theatre Play
Rating61%
To Dorothy, a Son (1954)
, 1h19Directed by Muriel Box
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Shelley Winters, John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Mona Washbourne, Hartley Power
Rating56%
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
, 1h26Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Barbara Mullen, Jack MacGowran
Roles Writer
Rating63%
John Mills and Dirk Bogarde, bizarrely, were the actors chosen to play two IRA men under cover in London during World War II. The lads are captured after (Terry) starts questioning the worth of war, a line of thinking never popular with armies. They are sprung from captivity by Connolly (Liam Redmond) and his IRA men. Nice cameo by Jack McGowran.
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Howard Marion-Crawford, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Theatre Play
Rating71%
Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and former Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the north of England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession with inventing an everlasting fibre. Whilst working as a labourer at the Birnley Mill, he accidentally becomes an unpaid researcher and invents an incredibly strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out. From this fabric, a suit is made—which is brilliant white because it cannot absorb dye and slightly luminous because it includes radioactive elements.
The Bells Go Down (1943)
, 1h30Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films
Actors James Mason, Tommy Trinder, Philip Friend, Mervyn Johns, William Hartnell, Finlay Currie
Roles Writer
Rating65%
On 3 September 1939, at the start of World War II, several East End Londoners join the London County Council Auxiliary Fire Service. Tommy Turk (Trinder) is a light-hearted gambler who avoids work, living with his mother (Varley) who runs a local fish and chips shop. Tommy has bought a greyhound pup he names "Short Head" and hopes to race. Bob Matthews (Friend) is a newcomer to the East End who just lost his job and has to postpone his wedding to Nan Harper (Hiatt) as a result. Tommy and Bob meet in The Hopvine, a pub run by Ma and Pa Robbins (Muriel George and Pierce), whose son Ted (Mason) is a fireman with the London Fire Brigade. Ted's girl Susie has just joined the brigade as a dispatcher, but Ma Robbins' cannot hide her thinly disguised disapproval of Susie's love of dance halls. The Army won't accept new enlistments, so Tommy persuades Bob to join the AFS with him. Sam, a small-time thief of Guinness, inadvertently joins the service trying to avoid the clutches of Eastchapel Police Constable O'Brien (Richard George), who dogs him with the persistence of Javert. The three are assigned immediately to the "Q" sub-station of the East End's District 21, set up in a school to train under Ted.
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
, 1h27Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Tommy Trinder, Gordon Jackson, John Williams
Rating68%
English factory foreman Fred Carrick (Clifford Evans) goes to France on his own initiative to retrieve several pieces of valuable machinery ahead of the German invasion. Along the way, he is helped by two soldiers (Tommy Trinder, Gordon Jackson) and an American woman (Constance Cummings). To get to France, Fred has to get round the opposition of his firm's bosses and British civil servants. While in France, he has to learn about the role of the fifth column. His gradual realisation of how authority can trick him has been argued to be an allegory to Britain learning not to be to be too trusting but also through the role of an Anne Stafford, an American woman, an anticipation of an eventual alliance with the United States. During the race to the coast with the machines, the film evokes the huge scale of the refugee movements that fled before the advancing Nazis in France in 1940.
Law and Disorder (1940)
, 1h14Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Alastair Sim, Austin Trevor, Barry K. Barnes, Diana Churchill, Edward Chapman, Leo Genn
Rating61%
Spare a Copper (1940)
, 1h17Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, Warburton Gamble, Bernard Lee, John Turnbull, George Merritt
Roles Writer
Rating61%
Formby plays a bumbling War Reservist police officer called George Carter who aspires to become a member of the flying squad. The film is set in Merseyside where the battleship HMS Hercules is being built. A group of saboteurs are planning to destroy HMS Hercules by blowing it up. George manages to foil the saboteurs' attempts to destroy HMS Hercules, saving the battleship from being blown up by saboteurs. One of the saboteurs, called "Jake", is played by Bernard Lee.
Now You're Talking (1940)
, 11minutesDirected by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Sebastian Shaw, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt, George Relph
Rating58%
Film de propagande sur les dangers d'un bavardage en temps de guerre.
Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
, 1h24Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, C.V. France, Peter Coke
Rating59%
The film depicts the rivalry between two firms of brewers. Ironsides, a modern company led by the ruthless Edward Ironside and his son John, seeks territorial expansion to crush its rivals and seize control of their business. They are faced by the smaller, more gently run Greenleaf brewery which is about to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
This Man in Paris (1939)
, 1h26Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Valerie Hobson, Barry K. Barnes, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy, Garry Marsh, Mona Goya
Roles Writer
Rating72%
Let's Be Famous (1939)
, 1h23Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Betty Driver, Sonnie Hale, Basil Radford, Patrick Barr, Milton Rosmer, Garry Marsh
Rating55%
This Man Is News (1938)
, 1h17Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors Valerie Hobson, Barry K. Barnes, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy, Garry Marsh, John Abbott
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Un journaliste se voit refuser une interview par un gangster qui a été relâché après avoir dénoncé ses complices. Rentré chez lui, il boit quelques verres et annonce à son rédacteur en chef que l'homme en question a été assassiné. Il n'a pas le temps de préciser que c'est une plaisanterie. Hélas le lendemain on découvre le cadavre... La police se demande si ce n'est pas le journaliste le coupable.