Jack Seddon - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)

Carry on England (1976)

The Southern Star (1969)

The Blue Max (1966)

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Murder Most Foul (1965)

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Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Blackmailer!

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Lodger's Dilemma

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)

Carry on England (1976)

The Southern Star (1969)

The Blue Max (1966)

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Murder Most Foul (1965)

Murder Ahoy (1964)

Original Screenplay

Murder at the Gallop (1963)

Kill or Cure (1962)

Original story & Screenplay

The Longest Day (1962)

Village Of Daughters (1962)

The Secret Partner (1961)

Murder She Said (1961)

Count Five and Die (1958)

Life Events

Videos

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Blackmailer! Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie’s sleuth) with her associate Mr. Stringer (Stringer Davis, who was Mr. Rutherford) deducing the meaning of a cut-up newspaper found at a murder scene, ringing a landlady,(Megs Jenkins), and observed by the annoyed Inspector Craddock (Charles Tingwell) Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Lodger's Dilemma Husband of the star, Stringer Davis, as “Mr. Stringer,” appears with Ross Parker and Lucy Griffiths from the local theater company, as Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) arrives, having just caused her murder jury to be hung, with Sydney Arnold as the vicar, early in the third of four MGM-British features based on the Agatha Christie, Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Jane Marble? Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) has her own reasons for infiltrating a local theater company, but must audition for the fussy director Cosgood (second-billed Ron Moody, in his first scene), choosing a Robert Service poem that was a favorite of Rutherford’s, in the last of her MGM-British features as Agatha Christie’s sleuth, Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Open, What's All This Here? Clever and nearly nasty opening bit from director George Pollock, from the script by David Pursall and Jack Seddon, based on an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot novel, from Murder Most Foul, 1964, with a constable (Terry Scott) discovering what looks like a murder, in fictional Milchester, England.

Murder She Said (1961) -- (Movie Clip) A Bad Dream, Indeed! Opening scene, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) observes a murder in the next train, then tells a dubious ticket clerk (Peter Butterworth) in Murder She Said, 1961, from Agatha Christie's 4:50 From Paddington.

Murder She Said (1961) -- (Movie Clip) We Can't All Be Young And Handsome Anxious Emma (Muriel Pavlow) introduces Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford), infiltrating the household as a maid, to her blustery father (James Robertson-Justice), in Murder She Said, 1961, from an Agatha Christie novel.

Murder She Said (1961) -- (Movie Clip) The Police Think I'm Dotty After an interview with the police, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) charges forth to consult Mr. Stringer (Rutherford's husband, Stringer Davis), in Murder She Said, 1961, from an Agatha Christie novel.

Alphabet Murders, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Belgian Sleuth Tony Randall stars as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, addressing the camera in director Frank Tashlin’s contribution to the MGM-Christie feature series (joining Margaret Rutherford’s Miss Marple), opening The Alphabet Murders, 1965, with Robert Morley and Anita Ekberg.

Alphabet Murders, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) My Faithful Bulldog In London, Tony Randall as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot at the baths and, we discover, quite aware that thus-far not-introduced Robert Morley (as agent Hastings) has been following, Patrick Newell as attendant Cracknell, in director Frank Tashlin’s comic mystery The Alphabet Murders, 1965.

Alphabet Murders, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) In Rotten Row? Hercule Poirot (Tony Randall) on the path called “Rotten Row” in London’s Hyde Park, questions Doncaster (Guy Rolfe) and company when he spies Anita Ekberg, known to him only as “A-B-C,” and linked to the murders, in director Frank Tashlin’s comic take on Agatha Christie, The Alphabet Murders, 1965.

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