Douglas Hickox

Douglas Hickox

1929-01-10 London, England, UK 27 Credits

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...

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Blackout

Blackout

1985

Director

5.4
Directing

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

The Master of Ballantrae

1984

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1983

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Phoenix

1981

Director

Directing

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

Zulu Dawn

1979

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Sky Riders

Sky Riders

1976

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Brannigan

1975

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Theatre of Blood

1973

Director

6.7
Directing

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Sitting Target

Sitting Target

1972

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

1970

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

1968

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Just for You

1964

Director

6.3
Directing

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

It's All Over Town

1963

Director

5.5
Directing

A series of musical vignettes formed from the dreams of a slumbering workman.

Stop Laughing, This Is England

Stop Laughing, This Is England

1963

Director

Directing

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

Murder She Said

1961

Assistant Director

7.3
Directing

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

The Snake Woman

1961

Assistant Director

4.2
Directing

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

The Giant Behemoth

1959

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Fiend Without a Face

1958

Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

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

Grip of the Strangler

1958

Assistant Director

6.1
Directing

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

Strangers' Meeting

Strangers' Meeting

1957

Assistant Director

Directing

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

The Secret

1955

Assistant Director

5.3
Directing

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

It's a Great Day

1955

Assistant Director

5.7
Directing

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

Adventure in the Hopfields

1954

Assistant Director

7.0
Directing

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.

The Limping Man

The Limping Man

1953

Second Assistant Director

5.2
Directing

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

The Mask

1953

Assistant Director

Directing

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

Murder at 3am

1953

Second Assistant Director

5.7
Directing

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

Street Corner

Street Corner

1953

Third Assistant Director

5.8
Directing

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.