Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lewis Gilbert CBE (born 6 March 1920 in London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lewis Gilbert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self
The story of three men with a shared dream: James Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and Bond creator and author Ian Flem...
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Before You Go
2002
Director
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sist...

Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"

Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
as Self
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee.

Inside Q's Lab
2000
Inside the lab of Q

Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"

Ken Adam: Designing Bond
2000
as Self
A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
1996
as Self
Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.

Haunted
1995
Director, Writer, Producer
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. So...

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
as Self
A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his family, friends and colleagues and clips from some o...

30 Years of James Bond
1992
as Self
An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the four actors who have played Bond, an interview wi...

Stepping Out
1991
Director
A has-been Broadway performer gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve.

Shirley Valentine
1989
Director, Producer
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while prepari...

Not Quite Paradise
1985
Director
Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure...
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985
as Self
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with hi...

Educating Rita
1983
Director, Producer
Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of li...

Moonraker
1979
Director
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the co...

Moonraker: 007 in Rio
1979
Original 1979 short promotional production featurette for the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979) featuring interview and behind the scenes footage.

The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
1977
as Self
Behind the scenes of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', produced by The Open University.

The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Director
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...

Seven Nights in Japan
1976
Director, Producer
Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated ...

Operation: Daybreak
1975
Director
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Paul and Michelle
1974
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison...

Friends
1971
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows int...

The Adventurers
1970
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the co...

You Only Live Twice
1967
Director
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...

Alfie
1966
Director, Producer
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

The 7th Dawn
1964
Director
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Director
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...

The Greengage Summer
1961
Director
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Light Up the Sky!
1960
Director
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

Sink the Bismarck!
1960
Director
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...

Ferry to Hong Kong
1959
Director, Screenplay
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on...

A Cry from the Streets
1958
Director
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose...

Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
Director, Screenplay
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t...

The Admirable Crichton
1957
Director, Writer
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b...

Reach for the Sky
1956
Director, Screenplay
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing lead...

Cast a Dark Shadow
1955
Director
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When thi...

Harmony Lane
1954
Director
The first British 3D short, this delightful 27 minute short is like spending a night at the Palladium with several variety acts. They include dancing...

The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954
Director, Writer
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea....

The Good Die Young
1954
Director, Screenplay
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

Albert R.N.
1953
Director
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy w...

Johnny on the Run
1953
Director, Producer
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encount...

Cosh Boy
1953
Director, Writer
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things...

Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952
Director
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "...

Emergency Call
1952
Director, Writer
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, ...

There Is Another Sun
1951
Director
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, ...

Scarlet Thread
1951
Director
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.

Once a Sinner
1950
Director
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections -...

Marry Me
1949
Writer
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on...
The Little Ballerina
1947
Director
Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

The Ten Year Plan
1945
Director, Writer
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.

Over the Moon
1939
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she sugg...
The Price of a Song
1935
as Margaret’s younger brother
A corrupt bookmaker inherits a fortune by killing his step-daughter's husband and framing her lover.

Dick Turpin
1933
as Jem
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.