Biography
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (10 October 1924 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Clavell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedi...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Making of Shōgun
2003
The set's central 13-part production documentary hails from the miniseries' previous DVD release but remains an extensive, insightful and, most import...
Tai-Pan
1986
Novel
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the ...
The Children's Story
1982
Director, Novel
A just-established totalitarian government places a new teacher in a classroom of young children while the old teacher is sent away. The new teacher c...
The Last Valley
1971
Writer, Director, Producer
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of sol...
Where's Jack?
1969
Director
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
To Sir, with Love
1967
Director, Producer, Writer
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate ...
King Rat
1965
Novel
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
The Satan Bug
1965
Screenplay
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b...
633 Squadron
1964
Screenplay
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is...
The Great Escape
1963
Screenplay, Producer
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...
Walk Like a Dragon
1960
Director, Writer, Producer
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purcha...
Five Gates to Hell
1959
Screenplay, Director, Producer
A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.
Watusi
1959
Writer
Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by...
The Fly
1958
Screenplay
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, And...