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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'
2015
as Self
Discussion about Carol Reed's 1947 film "Odd Man Out."

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
as Self
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
2010
as Self
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
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
2006
An interview with Guy Hamilton.

Shadowing the Third Man
2004
as Himself
Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self
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
2000
A look at the greatest stunts and stunt performers in the Bond films.

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
2000
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"

Inside 'Live and Let Die'
1999
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".

Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
1995
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".

The Goldfinger Phenomenon
1995
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
1989
Director
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
1985
Director
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Evil Under the Sun
1982
Director
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'
1982
as Self
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
1980
Director
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
1978
Director
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
1974
Director
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
1973
Director
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
1973
as Self
Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).

Diamonds Are Forever
1971
Director
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)
Short documentary about the staging and filming of the elevator fight sequence from the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever".

Battle of Britain
1969
Director
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
1966
Director
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
1965
Director
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
1964
Director
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
1964
Director
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
1961
Director
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
1960
Director, Writer
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
1959
Director
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
1957
Director, Writer
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
1956
Director
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
1955
Director, Writer
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
1954
Director
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
1953
Director
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
1952
Director
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

Home at Seven
1952
Assistant Director
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

The African Queen
1952
Assistant Director
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
1950
Assistant Director
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
1950
Assistant Director
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
1949
Assistant Director
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
1949
Assistant Director
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
1948
Assistant Director
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 ...