John Van Eyssen

John Van Eyssen

Born: March 19, 1922
Died: November 13, 1995
in Fauresmith, South Africa

Movies for John Van Eyssen...

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Title: Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Character: Jonathan Harker (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Merril
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who Knew" by Edgar Wallace.
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Marriage of Convenience
Title: Marriage of Convenience
Character: John Maudle
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
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The Criminal
Title: The Criminal
Character: Formby
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Captain Flormann
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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I'm All Right Jack
Title: I'm All Right Jack
Character: Reporter
Released: August 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Insp. Westover
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Title: Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Character: Hewitt
Released: March 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
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Moment of Indiscretion
Title: Moment of Indiscretion
Character: Corby
Released: September 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increase when Janet is less than forthcoming about a visit she paid to a former beau. Happily, her loyal husband (Ronald Howard) swears by her innocence and quickly leaps into motion to find the real killer.
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The Whole Truth
Title: The Whole Truth
Character: Archer
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.
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Dracula
Title: Dracula
Character: Jonathan Harker
Released: May 22, 1958
Type: Movie
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
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The One That Got Away
Title: The One That Got Away
Character: German Prisoner
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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Account Rendered
Title: Account Rendered
Character: Clive Franklyn
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
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Quatermass II
Title: Quatermass II
Character: The Plant Tour Guide
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Lieut. Grant
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Marine Bradley
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: Will Scarlett
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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Three Steps In The Dark
Title: Three Steps In The Dark
Character: Henry Burgoyne
Released: August 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.
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Four Sided Triangle
Title: Four Sided Triangle
Character: Robin
Released: June 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
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The Dybbuk
Title: The Dybbuk
Character: Chennoch
Released: October 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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Murder in the Cathedral
Title: Murder in the Cathedral
Released: September 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.