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Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.
He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama Millions Like Us (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with The Rake’s Progress, which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian’s School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950).
He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson’s opera Our Man in Havana, based on the novel by Graham Greene. He had also worked on the film.
He married Beryl Brewer in the early 30s. He had two children: Joanna Gilliat, who is a journalist and is married to Edward Russell, a pilot and Caroline Gilliat, who was an opera singer and teacher, who was married to Anthony Cave Brown (journalist). He had 3 grand children, Amanda Eliasch, Toby Brown and Camilla Horn.
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Sidney Gilliat Biography / Wiki
| Name | Sidney Gilliat |
| Also Know | Sidney Gilliatt, Sydney Gilliat, S. Gilliat, Сидни Джиллиат |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Edgeley, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1908-02-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1994-05-31 |
Sidney Gilliat Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Endless Night | Director | 1972-10-05 | Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famo… |
| Green for Danger | Director | 1946-12-07 | In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?… |
| The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery | Director | 1966-03-11 | The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school…. |
| Waterloo Road | Director | 1945-02-05 | During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife…. |
| Millions Like Us | Director | 1943-06-01 | Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Port… |
| Only Two Can Play | Director | 1962-01-19 | John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys … |
| London Belongs to Me | Director | 1948-11-05 | Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot… |
| Fortune Is a Woman | Director | 1957-03-13 | An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband’s art-forgery/arson scam…. |
| The Rake’s Progress | Director | 1945-12-06 | Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal… |
| The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | Director | 1953-02-14 | The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light … |
| Left Right and Centre | Director | 1959-06-23 | At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stel… |
| Partners in Crime | Director | 1942-06-02 | A parallel is drawn between a housewife’s dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver)…. |
| The Constant Husband | Director | 1955-04-21 | Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif… |
| State Secret | Director | 1950-09-11 | Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is … |
Sidney Gilliat Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Belles of St. Trinian’s | Producer | 1954-09-28 | The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when th… |
| The Happiest Days of Your Life | Producer | 1950-03-08 | Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The s… |
| The Blue Lagoon | Producer | 1949-03-01 | In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island… |
| The Rake’s Progress | Producer | 1945-12-06 | Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal… |
| The Constant Husband | Producer | 1955-04-21 | Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif… |
| State Secret | Producer | 1950-09-11 | Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is … |
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | Producer | 1951-10-25 | Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva – though not in the buff. Th… |
| Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s | Producer | 1957-12-01 | With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, … |
| The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s | Producer | 1960-12-22 | The fourth form monsters’ latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breath… |
| I See a Dark Stranger | Producer | 1946-07-04 | Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encourageme… |
| Captain Boycott | Producer | 1947-08-26 | Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boyco… |
| Green for Danger | Producer | 1946-12-07 | In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?… |
| Geordie | Producer | 1955-09-02 | Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. … |
| London Belongs to Me | Producer | 1948-11-05 | Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot… |
| Left Right and Centre | Producer | 1959-06-23 | At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stel… |
| Ooh… You Are Awful | Executive Producer | 1972-12-01 | Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lady Vanishes | Screenplay | 1938-10-07 | On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien… |
| The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s | Writer | 1960-12-22 | The fourth form monsters’ latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breath… |
| The Man Who Changed His Mind | Screenplay | 1936-09-11 | Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo… |
| The Belles of St. Trinian’s | Screenplay | 1954-09-28 | The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when th… |
| I See a Dark Stranger | Writer | 1946-07-04 | Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encourageme… |
| Endless Night | Writer | 1972-10-05 | Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famo… |
| Night Train to Munich | Screenplay | 1940-08-31 | Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England;… |
| The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery | Writer | 1966-03-11 | The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school…. |
| Green for Danger | Screenplay | 1946-12-07 | In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?… |
| Ask a Policeman | Story | 1939-04-29 | The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wa… |
| Seven Sinners | Writer | 1936-06-01 | Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery … |
| Crook’s Tour | Characters | 1940-09-03 | Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of G… |
| The Gaunt Stranger | Screenplay | 1938-10-27 | A lawyer receives a note telling him that he’ll be dead in 48 hours – and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as ‘The Ring… |
| They Came by Night | Screenplay | 1940-03-07 | A man is blackmailed into taking his brother’s place in a gang for a jewellery heist…. |
| Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday | Writer | 1939-12-01 | During a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime…. |
| The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | Writer | 1953-02-14 | The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light … |
| Fortune Is a Woman | Screenplay | 1957-03-13 | An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband’s art-forgery/arson scam…. |
| Friday the Thirteenth | Story | 1933-11-01 | It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a… |
| Where There’s a Will | Story | 1936-08-10 | Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with hi… |
| Strange Boarders | Writer | 1938-05-01 | Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a Lo… |
| Soldiers Three | Writer | 1951-04-01 | Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India…. |
| Jamaica Inn | Screenplay | 1939-05-11 | In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an inkeepe… |
| Jamaica Inn | Dialogue | 1939-05-11 | In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an inkeepe… |
| A Yank at Oxford | Story | 1938-02-18 | A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist’s sister…. |
| Falling for You | Story | 1933-06-15 | In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists fa… |
| Girl in the News | Screenplay | 1940-08-28 | An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later … |
| Bulldog Jack | Screenplay | 1935-09-01 | While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil… |
| Kipps | Screenplay | 1941-06-28 | A young tradesman learns that money doesn’t necessarily bring happiness. Drama…. |
| The Young Mr. Pitt | Screenplay | 1942-09-21 | This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24…. |
| A Gentleman of Paris | Writer | 1931-12-09 | A crime drama film directed by Sinclair Hill…. |
| The Happy Ending | Writer | 1931-10-01 | A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero… |
| Lord Babs | Writer | 1932-02-01 | A British comedy film directed by Walter Forde… |
| Waterloo Road | Writer | 1945-02-05 | During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife…. |
| Geordie | Screenplay | 1955-09-02 | Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. … |
| The Rake’s Progress | Screenplay | 1945-12-06 | Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal… |
| Chu Chin Chow | Screenplay | 1934-05-01 | Musical retelling of the “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” Arabian Nights tale…. |
| The Green Man | Screenplay | 1956-12-21 | Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing … |
| The Constant Husband | Screenplay | 1955-04-21 | Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif… |
| Millions Like Us | Screenplay | 1943-06-01 | Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Port… |
| State Secret | Screenplay | 1950-09-11 | Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is … |
| Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s | Writer | 1957-12-01 | With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, … |
| Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light | Story | 1941-12-30 | Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as … |
| The Boys in Blue | Original Story | 1982-09-20 | Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with clo… |
| Rome Express | Screenplay | 1932-10-31 | The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome…. |
| Partners in Crime | Writer | 1942-06-02 | A parallel is drawn between a housewife’s dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver)…. |
| The Ghost Train | Writer | 1931-08-22 | The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is base… |
| London Belongs to Me | Screenplay | 1948-11-05 | Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot… |
| Left Right and Centre | Screenplay | 1959-06-23 | At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stel… |
| Left Right and Centre | Original Story | 1959-06-23 | At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stel… |
| Twelve Good Men | Writer | 1936-03-01 | A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Ringer | Additional Dialogue | 1931-03-31 | Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England…. |
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