Frank Forsyth

Frank Forsyth

Born: December 19, 1905
Died: May 2, 1984
in London, England, UK

Movies for Frank Forsyth...

The Naked Civil Servant
Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Family Doctor
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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Love Among the Ruins
Title: Love Among the Ruins
Character: Jessop
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
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Tales That Witness Madness
Title: Tales That Witness Madness
Character: Uncle Albert (segment "Penny Farthing")
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
Title: And Now the Screaming Starts!
Character: Servant
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
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The Vault of Horror
Title: The Vault of Horror
Character: Male Customer (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
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Tales from the Crypt
Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Tramp (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
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Carry On Again Doctor
Title: Carry On Again Doctor
Character: Mr. Bean (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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They Came from Beyond Space
Title: They Came from Beyond Space
Character: Mr. Blake
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
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The Terrornauts
Title: The Terrornauts
Character: Uncle
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
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The Deadly Bees
Title: The Deadly Bees
Character: Doctor
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
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The Stable Door
Title: The Stable Door
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
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Carry On Screaming!
Title: Carry On Screaming!
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!
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The Psychopath
Title: The Psychopath
Character: Tucker
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
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The Skull
Title: The Skull
Character: Judge
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Title: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Toastmaster (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
Released: February 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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The Big Job
Title: The Big Job
Character: Bank Cashier
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
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Traitor's Gate
Title: Traitor's Gate
Character: Chief Yeoman Warden
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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Carry On Spying
Title: Carry On Spying
Character: Prof. Stark
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
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Blind Corner
Title: Blind Corner
Character: Policeman
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
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Title: The Young Jacobites
Character: Laird
Released: July 25, 1963
Type: TV
Two children on holiday on The Isle of Skye, Scotland, go back in time and help Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland to France.
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Twice Round the Daffodils
Title: Twice Round the Daffodils
Character: Dorothy's Father
Released: April 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
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What a Whopper
Title: What a Whopper
Character: 3rd Scot
Released: October 17, 1961
Type: Movie
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Prof. Gerald Abrahams
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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Three on a Spree
Title: Three on a Spree
Character: Barman
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
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Rag Doll
Title: Rag Doll
Character: Superintendent
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
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The Young Jacobites
Title: The Young Jacobites
Character: Laird
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle of Culloden. Serial in 8 episodes: 1. Journey into the past (15mins; 1367 feet) 2. The traitor (16mins; 1423 feet) 3. The league in action (14mins; 1290 feet) 4. The ambush (15mins; 1385 feet) 5. The prince must be warned (14mins; 1292 feet) 6. The rescue (17mins; 1542 feet) 7. The enemy closes in (15mins; 1322 feet) 8. Over the threshold (20 mins; 1782 feet)
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
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Chain of Events
Title: Chain of Events
Character: Johnson
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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Man from Tangier
Title: Man from Tangier
Character: Sgt. Irons
Released: November 25, 1957
Type: Movie
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
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The Surgeon's Knife
Title: The Surgeon's Knife
Character: Anaesthetist
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
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Circus Friends
Title: Circus Friends
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: 2nd Minister
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
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Stolen Assignment
Title: Stolen Assignment
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
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Before I Wake
Title: Before I Wake
Character: Jack Storey
Released: February 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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The Silent Witness
Title: The Silent Witness
Character: Detective Forbes
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears
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The Embezzler
Title: The Embezzler
Character: Inspector Gale
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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Late Night Final
Title: Late Night Final
Character: Constable Everitt
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Scarlet Web
Title: Scarlet Web
Character: Jeweller (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
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Double Exposure
Title: Double Exposure
Character: Inspector Grayle
Released: March 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.