Biography: life and films
Bryan Forbes was an English film director, screenwriter, producer and actor whose birth name was John Theobald Clarke. He was born in Stratford, West Ham, Essex, England on 22nd July 1926 and died in Virginia Water, Surrey, England on 8th May 2013, aged 86.His best films as a screenwriter include José Ferrer's The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), John Guillermin's I Was Monty's Double (1958), Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960), Basil Dearden's The League of Gentlemen (1960) and Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), and whose best work as a film director include Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and The Stepford Wives (1975).
Bryan Forbes scripted 29 films, appeared in 28 films and directed 16 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Guy Green (3 films), Basil Dearden (3), Val Guest (2), Ronald Neame (2), Raoul Walsh (2), Jack Lee (2), Guy Hamilton (2) and Derek N. Twist (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (30 films), comedy (14), War (13), Thriller (10), comedy-drama (7), romance (4), history (4), comedy-romance (3), Horror (3), Fantasy (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Bryan Forbes over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
All Over the Town (1949) [a]
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) [a]
The Small Back Room (1949) [a]
The Wooden Horse (1950) [a]
Green Grow the Rushes (1951) [a]
Appointment in London (1952) [a]
The World in His Arms (1952) [a]
Sea Devils (1953) [a]
The Million Pound Note (1953) [a]
Wheel of Fate (1953) [a]
The Black Knight (1954) [w]
Up to His Neck (1954) [a]
Passage Home (1955) [a]
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) [w]
House of Secrets (1956) [w]
It's Great to Be Young! (1956) [a]
Now and Forever (1956) [a]
Satellite in the Sky (1956) [a]
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]
The Black Tent (1956) [w]
The Extra Day (1956) [a]
I Was Monty's Double (1958) [a,w]
The Key (1958) [a]
Danger Within (1959) [w]
SOS Pacific (1959) [w]
The Captain's Table (1959) [w]
Yesterday's Enemy (1959) [a]
Man in the Moon (1960) [w]
The Angry Silence (1960) [w]
The League of Gentlemen (1960) [a,w]
The Guns of Navarone (1961) [a]
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) [d]
Only Two Can Play (1962) [w]
Station Six-Sahara (1962) [w]
The L-Shaped Room (1962) [d,w]
A Shot in the Dark (1964) [a]
Of Human Bondage (1964) [d,w]
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) [d,w]
The High Bright Sun (1964) [w]
King Rat (1965) [d,w]
The Whisperers (1967) [d,w]
Deadfall (1968) [d,w]
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [d]
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) [w]
The Raging Moon (1971) [d,w]
I Am a Dancer (1972) [a]
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976) [d,w]
International Velvet (1978) [d,w]
Hopscotch (1980) [w]
Better Late Than Never (1982) [d,w]
The Naked Face (1984) [d,w]
Restless Natives (1985) [a]
Chaplin (1992) [w]
The best French war films ever made
The very best French thrillers
The history of French cinema
