Guy Hamilton

Guy Hamilton

1922-09-16 Paris, Ile-de-France, France 46 Credits

Biography

Mervyn Ian ​Guy Hamilton, DSC (September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016) was an English film director. Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance. After the end of the war, he worked as an assistant to Carol Reed on films including The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), before turning to directing with his first film The Ringer in 1952. He made 22 films from the 1950s to the...

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Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'

Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'

2015

as Self

Acting

Discussion about Carol Reed's 1947 film "Odd Man Out."

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

2012

as Self

6.2
Acting

Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of the most iconic cars.

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

2010

as Self

6.7
Acting

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real ...

A Sense of Carol Reed

2006

as Self

Acting

The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' ,...

Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks

Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks

2006

6.0
Acting

An interview with Guy Hamilton.

Shadowing the Third Man

Shadowing the Third Man

2004

as Himself

6.1
Acting

Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).

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.

Double-O Stunts

Double-O Stunts

2000

5.7
Acting

A look at the greatest stunts and stunt performers in the Bond films.

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

2000

as Self

7.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

2000

7.2
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"

Inside 'Live and Let Die'

Inside 'Live and Let Die'

1999

7.5
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'

1995

as Self

6.8
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".

Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'

Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'

1995

as Self

6.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".

The Goldfinger Phenomenon

The Goldfinger Phenomenon

1995

6.0
Acting

A look at the marketing, advertising and merchandising of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964) including trailers, interviews, TV spots and rare pro...

Try This One for Size

Try This One for Size

1989

Director

7.1
Directing

The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance...

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

1985

Director

6.2
Directing

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun

1982

Director

6.9
Directing

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangli...

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

1982

as Self

8.5
Acting

Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd

1980

Director

6.1
Directing

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Force 10 from Navarone

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

Director

6.2
Directing

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974

Director

6.4
Directing

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths wit...

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die

1973

Director

6.5
Directing

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big...

Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary

Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary

1973

as Self

6.0
Acting

Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

Director

6.4
Directing

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...

Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat

1971

as Narrator (voice)

4.8
Acting

Short documentary about the staging and filming of the elevator fight sequence from the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever".

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

1969

Director

6.9
Directing

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...

Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin

1966

Director

6.4
Directing

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. ...

The Party's Over

The Party's Over

1965

Director

6.5
Directing

A group of close friends spend their time drinking and partying. When the American fiancé one of them shows up, the clique protects her by hiding her ...

Goldfinger

Goldfinger

1964

Director

7.4
Directing

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to pre...

Man in the Middle

Man in the Middle

1964

Director

6.4
Directing

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. ...

The Best of Enemies

The Best of Enemies

1961

Director

6.9
Directing

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to ...

A Touch of Larceny

A Touch of Larceny

1960

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that...

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

1959

Director

6.6
Directing

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re...

Manuela

Manuela

1957

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s ...

Charley Moon

Charley Moon

1956

Director

7.0
Directing

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with H...

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

1955

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval...

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

1954

Director

7.1
Directing

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circums...

The Intruder

The Intruder

1953

Director

7.2
Directing

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. W...

The Ringer

The Ringer

1952

Director

5.8
Directing

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

Home at Seven

Home at Seven

1952

Assistant Director

6.3
Directing

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

The African Queen

The African Queen

1952

Assistant Director

7.4
Directing

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to g...

State Secret

State Secret

1950

Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demon...

The Angel with the Trumpet

The Angel with the Trumpet

1950

Assistant Director

6.3
Directing

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie jo...

The Third Man

The Third Man

1949

Assistant Director

7.9
Directing

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he ...

The Forbidden Street

The Forbidden Street

1949

Assistant Director

6.7
Directing

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre...

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

1948

Assistant Director

7.2
Directing

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes ...