Person Detail
Bryan Forbes
Catalogued films 55Director 18Actor 25
Bryan Forbes CBE (/fɔːrbz/; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry". He directed the film The Stepford Wives (1975) and wrote and/or directed several other critically acclaimed films, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and King Rat (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Angry Silence (1960) and Only Two Can Play (1962).
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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The Endless Game
The Naked Face
Better Late Than Never
Jessie
Sunday Lovers
International Velvet
The Slipper and the Rose
The Stepford Wives
Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things
The Raging Moon
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Deadfall
The Whisperers
The Wrong Box
King Rat
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
The L-Shaped Room
Whistle Down the Wind
Actor credits
0/24- A A Sense of Carol Reed
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
December Flower
I Am a Dancer
The Guns of Navarone
The League of Gentlemen
Yesterday's Enemy
I Was Monty's Double
The Key
Quatermass 2
Satellite in the Sky
The Baby and the Battleship
Passage Home
The Colditz Story
An Inspector Calls
The Million Pound Note
Up to His Neck
Wheel of Fate
Sea Devils
Appointment in London
The World in His Arms
The Wooden Horse
Dear Mr. Prohack
All Over the Town
