Vernon Harris - Turner Classic Movies

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Vernon Harris brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. Harris began his writing career for film with such titles as "The Good Die Young" (1954) and the drama "Albert R.N." (1955) with Anthony Steel. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Three Men in a Boat" in 1956. He followed this recognition with scripts for "Friends" (1971) with Sean ...

Filmography

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Troopship (1937)

Paul et Michelle (1974)

Almost Angels (1962)

Ferry to Hong Kong (1961)

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Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly

Biography

Vernon Harris brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. Harris began his writing career for film with such titles as "The Good Die Young" (1954) and the drama "Albert R.N." (1955) with Anthony Steel. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Three Men in a Boat" in 1956. He followed this recognition with scripts for "Friends" (1971) with Sean Bury and the Anicee Alvina romance sequel "Paul et Michelle" (1974). Harris last edited "Shirley Valentine" (1989) with Pauline Collins. Harris passed away in February 1999 at the age of 94.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Troopship (1937)

Writer (Feature Film)

Paul et Michelle (1974)

Almost Angels (1962)

Ferry to Hong Kong (1961)

Paradise Lagoon (1958)

A Cry From the Streets (1958)

Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)

Three Men in a Boat (1956)

Reach for the Sky (1956)

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1955)

The Good Die Young (1954)

Albert, R.N. (1953)

Editing (Feature Film)

Shirley Valentine (1989)

Sound (Feature Film)

The Adventurers (1970)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Adventurers (1970)

Screenplay Editor

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1955)

Source Material (From Novel)

Life Events

Videos

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees In the South Seas, separated from their yacht, butler Crichton (Kenneth More) with maid Tweeny (Diane Cilento), employer Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell) and suitors (Jack Watling, Gerald Harper), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly Sally Ann Howes as Lady Mary is gaining some nerve, though she’s the last holdout of the shipwrecked Loam family in recognizing that their butler Crichton (Kenneth More) is best equipped to lead their party, and her attempted swim brings her around, in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton, from the J.M. Barrie play.

Oliver! (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Do Anything The Dodger (Jack Wild), title character (Mark Lester), Nancy (Shani Wallis)and Fagin (Ron Moody) perform Lionel Bart's hit "I'd Do Anything" in Carol Reed's musical version of the Dickens tale, Oliver!, 1968.

Good Die Young, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Leave Me To Die! American Joe (Richard Basehart) just arrived in London, has been worried about his Brit wife Mary (Joan Collins, only 21 at the time), but finds out his mum-in-law (Freda Jackson) is the problem, the first back-story in director Lewis Gilbert's The Good Die Young, 1954.

Good Die Young, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) We Were All Good Boys Much grit as boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) is introduced, cynical manager Stookey (Leslie Dwyer) and trainer Bunny (George Rose) commenting, as director Lewis Gilbert fills in the background on the second in his band of desperadoes, in The Good Die Young, 1954.

Good Die Young, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Killed Well Narration describing the fourth and maybe most sinister member of the criminal band seen in the opening, Laurence Harvey as slick "Rave," Margaret Leighton his older and well-heeled wife, in director Lewis Gilbert's The Good Die Young, 1954.

Good Die Young, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) A Film Actress Opening the third back-story vignette of the men in on the heist, John Ireland as American service-man Eddie, with Gloria Grahame, probably the biggest name in the cast, as his movie actress wife, in director Lewis Gilbert's British-made The Good Die Young, 1954.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) That Was The French After an extended domestic pantomime for the credits, Crichton (Kenneth More) awakens Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), who has a surprise for his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, from J.M. Barrie's better-known play The Admirable Crichton, 1958.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Give Us A Show 1931, Reading, England, RAF pilots Bader (Kenneth More) and Sanderson (Lyndon Brook) are goaded by civilian fliers (Jack Taylor, Jeremy Longhurst) to disobey orders, Alexander Knox the surgeon in the ensuing scene, in director Lewis Gilbert's bio-pic Reach For The Sky, 1956.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Helpless Cripple RAF pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), hospitalized after a reckless crash and having lost the use of both legs, sneaks from his bed, found by nurse Brace (Dorothy Alison), who hears his griping then lays down some law, in the 1956 bio-pic Reach For The Sky.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Living Meant Flying End of the credits and the opening, introducing Kenneth More, playing the lead in the life story of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, narration by Lyndon Brook as colleague Sanderson, in director Lewis Gilbert's Reach For The Sky, 1956, from the book by Paul Brickhill.

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