Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert

1920-03-06 London, England, UK 57 Credits

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

Filter by:

Complete Filmography

Everything or Nothing

Everything or Nothing

2012

as Self

7.1
Acting

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

5.0
Acting

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

Before You Go

2002

Director

5.0
Directing

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'

Inside 'You Only Live Twice'

2000

as Self

7.2
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"

Inside 'Moonraker'

Inside 'Moonraker'

2000

as Self

6.8
Acting

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

Inside Q's Lab

Inside Q's Lab

2000

5.0
Acting

Inside the lab of Q

Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

2000

as Self

7.4
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"

Ken Adam: Designing Bond

Ken Adam: Designing Bond

2000

as Self

6.8
Acting

A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

1996

as Self

4.5
Acting

Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

1995

as Self

6.0
Acting

The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.

Haunted

Haunted

1995

Director, Writer, Producer

6.1
Directing Writing Producing

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

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

1994

as Self

Acting

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

30 Years of James Bond

1992

as Self

5.3
Acting

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

Stepping Out

1991

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Shirley Valentine

1989

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

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

Not Quite Paradise

1985

Director

5.5
Directing

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

6.0
Acting

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

Educating Rita

1983

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

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

Moonraker

1979

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Moonraker: 007 in Rio

1979

5.8
Acting

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'

The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

1977

as Self

8.0
Acting

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

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Seven Nights in Japan

1976

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

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

Operation: Daybreak

1975

Director

6.9
Directing

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

Paul and Michelle

Paul and Michelle

1974

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.5
Directing Writing Producing

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

Friends

Friends

1971

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Adventurers

1970

Director, Screenplay, Producer

4.5
Directing Writing Producing

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

You Only Live Twice

1967

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Alfie

1966

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

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

The 7th Dawn

The 7th Dawn

1964

Director

6.5
Directing

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

1962

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Greengage Summer

1961

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!

1960

Director

6.2
Directing

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!

1960

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Ferry to Hong Kong

1959

Director, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

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

A Cry from the Streets

1958

Director

7.2
Directing

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

Carve Her Name with Pride

1958

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

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

The Admirable Crichton

1957

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

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

Reach for the Sky

1956

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

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

Cast a Dark Shadow

1955

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Harmony Lane

1954

Director

Directing

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

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

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

The Good Die Young

1954

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

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.

Albert R.N.

1953

Director

7.2
Directing

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

Johnny on the Run

1953

Director, Producer

7.5
Directing Producing

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

Cosh Boy

1953

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

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!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

1952

Director

8.0
Directing

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

Emergency Call

1952

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

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

There Is Another Sun

1951

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Scarlet Thread

1951

Director

4.9
Directing

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.

Once a Sinner

Once a Sinner

1950

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Marry Me

1949

Writer

4.3
Writing

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

Directing

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

The Ten Year Plan

The Ten Year Plan

1945

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.

Over the Moon

Over the Moon

1939

as Minor Role (uncredited)

5.3
Acting

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

Acting

A corrupt bookmaker inherits a fortune by killing his step-daughter's husband and framing her lover.

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin

1933

as Jem

Acting

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