Sidney Gilliat

Director

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Also Known As

Sidney Gilliatt

Birth Place

Cheshire, England, GB

Born

February 15, 1908

Died

May 31, 1994

Cause of Death

Leukemia

Biography

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Began his career writing intertitles for silent films, graduating to screenplays in the 1930s before eventually turning to directing. Working often with Frank Launder, Gilliat made a series of outstanding British comedies and suspense pictures from the mid-30s into the 1960s; among the team's screenwriting credits are "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and "Night Train to Munich" (1940). Launder...

Filmography

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Endless Night (1972)

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1967)

Only Two Can Play (1962)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

She Played with Fire (1958)

The Constant Husband (1955)

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Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Churchill Telling Lies

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way

Biography

Began his career writing intertitles for silent films, graduating to screenplays in the 1930s before eventually turning to directing. Working often with Frank Launder, Gilliat made a series of outstanding British comedies and suspense pictures from the mid-30s into the 1960s; among the team's screenwriting credits are "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and "Night Train to Munich" (1940). Launder and Gilliat became known for thrillers with a comic element, such as "I See a Dark Stranger" (1946), "Green For Danger" (1946) and "State Secret" (1950). "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954) is one of their best-known outright comedies. Brother of producer Leslie Gilliat.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Endless Night (1972)

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1967)

Only Two Can Play (1962)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

She Played with Fire (1958)

The Constant Husband (1955)

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

State Secret (1950)

London Belongs to Me (1948)

Green For Danger (1946)

The Rake's Progress (1945)

Waterloo Road (1944)

Millions Like Us (1943)

Assistant Direction (Feature Film)

Red Pearls (1930)

Assistant Director

You'd Be Surprised! (1930)

Assistant Director

The Last Hour (1930)

Assistant Director

Would You Believe It! (1929)

Assistant Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

Sleeping News Of The World Reader

You'd Be Surprised! (1930)

Would You Believe It! (1929)

Restaurant Customer

Writer (Feature Film)

The Boys in Blue (1983)

The Lady Vanishes (1979)

From Screenplay

Endless Night (1972)

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1961)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

She Played with Fire (1958)

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)

The Green Man (1956)

The Green Man (1956)

Play As Source Material ("Meet A Body")

Wee Geordie (1955)

The Constant Husband (1955)

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

Ali Baba Nights (1953)

Writing Credits

State Secret (1950)

London Belongs to Me (1948)

I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

Green For Danger (1946)

2,000 Women (1944)

Waterloo Road (1944)

The Young Mr. Pitt (1943)

Millions Like Us (1943)

The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941)

The Girl in the News (1941)

They Came by Night (1940)

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Strange Boarders (1938)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

A Yank at Oxford (1938)

The Gaunt Stranger (1938)

Ask A Policeman (1938)

Take My Tip (1937)

The Man Who Lived Again (1936)

Story and Adapted

King of the Damned (1936)

Seven Sinners (1936)

Twelve Good Men (1936)

Jack Ahoy (1935)

My Heart Is Calling (1935)

Alias Bulldog Drummond (1935)

Chu Chin Chow (1934)

Screenplay and dial

Friday the 13th (1934)

Orders Is Orders (1934)

Rome Express (1933)

Additional Dialogue

Falling For You (1933)

A Gentleman of Paris (1931)

Producer (Feature Film)

Ooh... You Are Awful (1972)

Executive Producer

Endless Night (1972)

Executive Producer

Only Two Can Play (1962)

Executive Producer

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1961)

The Bridal Path (1959)

Left, Right and Centre (1959)

She Played with Fire (1958)

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

The Green Man (1956)

Wee Geordie (1955)

The Constant Husband (1955)

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

La Minute de Verite (1952)

Folly to Be Wise (1952)

Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)

State Secret (1950)

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Captain Boycott (1947)

Green For Danger (1946)

I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

Music (Feature Film)

Chu Chin Chow (1934)

Sound (Feature Film)

You'd Be Surprised! (1930)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)

Production Consultant

Under the Greenwood Tree (1929)

Technical Advisor (Literary)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Ghost Train (1941)

The Manxman (1929)

Champagne (1928)

Life Events

1927

Assistant director (to Walter Mycroft)

1942

Film director

1945

Formed Individual Pictures company with Frank Launder

1961

Chairman of Shepperton studios

Videos

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Churchill Telling Lies Nurse Freddi Linley (Sally Gray) doing rounds at the provincial English military hospital, comes upon suave surgeon Eden (Leo Genn), expressing concern about her relations with her fiancè, his junior colleague, when buzz-bombs intrude, followed by the high-strung chief O-R nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) and a delirious patient, parroting what sounds like Nazi radio propaganda, in the dark Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way Part of another elaborate set-piece in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat production, the hospital dance, Dr Eden (Leo Genn) counsels distraught nurse Esther (Rosamund John) about his ex-lover, her deceased mother, then nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) seethes toward Dr. Barnes (Trevor Howard) whose fianceè nurse Freddi (Sally Gray) becomes his next partner, in Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Tatty Little Hospital Hop Interlocking exposition in a complex post-operative scene, surgeon Eden (Leo Genn) speaks with the engaged-but-arguing anesthetist Barnes and nurse Linley (Trevor Howard, Sally Gray), then nurse Woods (Megs Jenkins) and overseeing Sister Bates (Judy Campbell), nurse Esther Sanson (Rosamund John) also involved, early in the acclaimed English wartime murder mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He Was The First To Die Alastair Sim narrates as Inspector Cockrill and Moore Marriott features as postman Higgins, followed by a roll call introducing Leo Genn, Megs Jenkins, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell, Sally Gray and Trevor Howard, then Ronald Adam as the administrator Dr. White, all at an English military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery, in the first production completed at London’s Pinewood Studios after the end of WWII, Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) There'll Have To Be An Inquest The new administrator (Ronald Adam as Dr. White) confers with his doctors, Trevor Howard as the anesthetist Barnes, Leo Genn as surgeon Eden and Henry Edwards as Purdy about the unexplained death of the postman, during surgery and a German air raid at a military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Yank At Oxford, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Perfectly Beautiful Enemy American jock Lee Sheridan (Robert Taylor) on the train to Oxford, introduces himself to fellow students Beaumont, Wavertree and Ramsey (Griffith Jones, Robert Coote, Peter Croft) when Beaumont's sister Molly (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives, and a gag is pulled, in A Yank At Oxford, 1938.

Yank At Oxford, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) The Mother In You After colliding again with the dean (Edmund Gwenn), Robert Taylor (as American student Lee Sheridan) visits a bicycle shop where he begins his first-ever scene with Vivien Leigh (as frisky faculty wife "Mrs. Craddock"), in the MGM-British production A Yank At Oxford, 1938.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) He Played For The Gentlemen Two new characters, about an hour into the picture, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as Brits Charters and Caldicott are catching the Berlin to Munich train when they’re surprised to see Rex Harrison, as undercover agent Randall, posing as a Nazi, sneaking Margaret Lockwood and her father out of Germany, watched by suspicious Paul Henreid, with a not-too obscure cricket reference, in Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) So Did Napoleon By way of introducing the Times of London, with a reference to the German foreign minister, Czech refugee Anna (Margaret Lockwood) has been advised by her rescuer Karl (Paul Henreid), not realizing HE’s an undercover Nazi spy, to place an ad, in hopes she’ll lead him to her fugitive scientist father, but she trusts Roland Culver, the British intelligence man on the phone, another wrinkle, in Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Only Love Can Lead The Way In his first scene, Rex Harrison poses as singer Gus, practicing tradecraft as he initially rebuffs Czech refugee Anna (Margaret Lockwood), who got mysterious instructions to come to coastal Brightbourne (modeled on Brighton), in search of her exiled scientist father, not aware the Nazis are watching her (!), in Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Suffering From An Eye Strain Substantial plot twist, to infuriate any viewer who was liking Paul Henreid as Karl Marsen, Czech concentration camp escapee who, now in London, reveals himself to be a Nazi mole, visiting an opthalmologist (Felix Aylmer) who, after a clever bit with an eye chart, does exposition, in Night Train To Munich, 1940, from director Carol Reed and producer Alexander Korda.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) We Shall Be Invaded After a prologue on various Nazi invasions of 1939, with Hitler in newsreels, then indirectly portrayed, we meet James Harcourt as Czech scientist Bomasch, with chiefs of his military industry employer, who winds up calling his daughter, top-billed Margaret Lockwood, in Alexander Korda and Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Family

Leslie Gilliat

Brother

Producer.

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