Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Hickox (10 January 1929 – 25 July 1988) was an English film director. Hickox was born in London, where he was educated at Emanuel School. Hickox worked extensively as an assistant director and second unit director throughout the 50's and early 60's, making his first major picture in 1970. Over the next ten years, he developed a reputation for the wit and style of his direction, and for his taut action sequences. His work includes Les Bicyclettes...
Complete Filmography

Blackout
1985
Director
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father, who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident, i...

The Master of Ballantrae
1984
Director
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England fo...

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
Director
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near h...

The Phoenix
1981
Director
A godlike being, discovered in an ancient sarcophagus in the plains of South America, is brought back to life and must learn to cope with today's soci...

Zulu Dawn
1979
Director
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Sky Riders
1976
Director
When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gli...

Brannigan
1975
Director
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings Am...

Theatre of Blood
1973
Director
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Sitting Target
1972
Director
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beauti...

Entertaining Mr. Sloane
1970
Director
A woman and her closeted brother meet a man sunbathing on a gravestone and invite him to be their lodger. Their elderly father, however, recognises hi...

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
1968
Director
A 1968 British musical short film (30 mins) starring Judy Huxtable and Anthony May. It was directed by Douglas Hickox. It tells the story of a young m...

Just for You
1964
Director
Sam Costa is a man about town, dispensing wisdom and witty quips from the bed of his Space Age bachelor bad whilst watching a stream of musical perfor...

It's All Over Town
1963
Director
A series of musical vignettes formed from the dreams of a slumbering workman.

Stop Laughing, This Is England
1963
Director
An amusing portrait of the English at work and at play in the industrial north of the country. Photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson. Broadcasted only ...

Murder She Said
1961
Assistant Director
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

The Snake Woman
1961
Assistant Director
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villager...

The Giant Behemoth
1959
Director
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which ...

Fiend Without a Face
1958
Assistant Director
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent...

Grip of the Strangler
1958
Assistant Director
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

Strangers' Meeting
1957
Assistant Director
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence h...

The Secret
1955
Assistant Director
An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the c...

It's a Great Day
1955
Assistant Director
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the counc...

Adventure in the Hopfields
1954
Assistant Director
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.

The Limping Man
1953
Second Assistant Director
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a ...

The Mask
1953
Assistant Director
In 1909 Cornwall, the affair between a disfigured miller's wife and his estranged cousin leads to a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Murder at 3am
1953
Second Assistant Director
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

Street Corner
1953
Third Assistant Director
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.