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Douglas Hickox is a Director and Assistant Director British born on 10 january 1929 at London (United-kingdom)

Douglas Hickox

Douglas Hickox
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 january 1929 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 25 july 1988 (at 59 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Douglas Hickox est un réalisateur britannique, surtout connu comme réalisateur de films d'action, né le 10 janvier 1929 à Londres, ville où il est mort le 25 juillet 1988.

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Filmography of Douglas Hickox (21 films)

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Director

Sins (TV miniseries), 5h20
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Actors Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, Steven Berkoff, Joseph Bologna
Rating70% 3.5364753.5364753.5364753.5364753.536475
Helene Junot is a successful businesswoman and a leading name in the world of fashion. In 1980s New York, she attends a reception for the launch of her new magazine, "Woman Of Today", which could make or break her publishing company. Meanwhile, several people from Helene's past are conspiring to destroy her.
The Master of Ballantrae, 3h
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors John Gielgud, Michael York, Richard Thomas, Ian William Richardson, Finola Hughes, Nickolas Grace
Rating67% 3.3773753.3773753.3773753.3773753.377375
Based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, this film (two and a half hours long) is pure entertainment. It is sad that it has not been re-issued in DVD form and that the few VHS copies in the market are so expensive.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1h40
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Martin Shaw, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Barber, Brian Blessed, Eleanor Bron
Rating65% 3.2970953.2970953.2970953.2970953.297095
Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson enquêtent sur les menaces qui pèsent sur l'héritier des Baskerville...
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn (1979)
, 1h53
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster, Nigel Davenport, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Rating65% 3.2956753.2956753.2956753.2956753.295675
The film is set in British South Africa, in the province of Natal, in January 1879. The first act of the film revolves around the administrators and officials of Cape Colony, notably the supremely arrogant Lord Chelmsford and the scheming Sir Henry Bartle Frere, who both wish to crush the neighbouring Zulu Empire, which is perceived as a threat to Cape Colony's emerging industrial economy. Bartle Frere issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding that he dissolve the Zulu Empire. Cetshwayo refuses, providing Cape Colony with a pretext to invade Zululand. Despite objections from leading members of Cape Colony's high society and from Great Britain itself, Bartle Frere authorises Lord Chelmsford to lead a British invasion force into Zululand.
Sky Riders
Sky Riders (1976)
, 1h31
Directed by Brian W. Cook, Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, John Beck
Rating59% 2.952682.952682.952682.952682.95268
The wife, Ellen (Susannah York), of an international industrialist (Robert Culp) and her two children are kidnapped from their Athens home by a terrorist group and taken to an abandoned monastery on an imposing, needle-shaped island. Jim McCabe (James Coburn), Ellen's ex-husband hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair.
Brannigan
Brannigan (1975)
, 1h51
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Ralph Meeker
Rating60% 3.048183.048183.048183.048183.04818
Tough Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to London to extradite a notorious American gangster, Ben Larkin (John Vernon). Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Jennifer (Judy Geeson), to help while he is in London. But before Brannigan can collect his man, Larkin is kidnapped.
Theatre of Blood, 1h44
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Serial killer films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Rachael Stirling, Coral Browne
Rating70% 3.546583.546583.546583.546583.54658
Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) appears to have committed suicide by diving into the Thames, after being humiliated at an awards ceremony. But he has been secretly rescued by vagrants, who welcome him into their circle. Weakened by meths-addiction, they prove to be a docile crew, that he will use in a campaign of revenge on the drama-critics who failed to salute his genius.
Sitting Target, 1h33
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Oliver Reed, Jill St John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Freddie Jones, Frank Finlay
Rating65% 3.294043.294043.294043.294043.29404
Harry Lomart, a convicted murderer, and Birdy Williams are convicts planning a breakout. Before the two men can abscond to another country, Lomart gets word that his wife Pat has been having an affair with another man and has become pregnant.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, 1h34
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Alan Webb
Rating63% 3.1888253.1888253.1888253.1888253.188825
Murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, and sadism are among the themes of this black comedy focusing on a brother and sister who become involved with a young, sexy, amoral drifter with a mysterious past.
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, 29minutes
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Anthony May
Rating66% 3.3362653.3362653.3362653.3362653.336265
The film opens from a vantage point over the rooftops, showing some of the morning occurrences through the windows of the houses. A young man dressed in a fashionable mod style prepares for the day from his rooftop flat and cycles around to the theme song. He then takes his bicycle and descends to the streets of the leafy suburbs. Cycling down some steps he crashes into the bike of a little girl (Leslie Goddard) and is knocked unconscious. She stands over him showing her pigtails, glasses and braces and gazes at him, clearly besotted. The man awakes and asks the girls name. She tells him she is called Kate. He bids her farewell and cycles off, she follows behind. As he cycles the man sings a song about how he does not envy the responsible, monotonous lives of older people. The girl blows a raspberry as she passes a queue of people at the bus stop; this starts a disagreement between the people at the stop which ends with a food fight.
The Giant Behemoth, 1h20
Directed by Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Gene Evans, André Morell, Jack MacGowran, John Turner, Derren Nesbitt, Maurice Kaufmann
Rating57% 2.852282.852282.852282.852282.85228
American scientist Steve Karnes (Gene Evans) delivers a speech to a British scientific society, headed by Professor James Bickford (André Morell), about the dangers to marine life posed by nuclear testing. Before Karnes can return to the U.S., a real-life example of his concern materializes when Tom Trevethan (Henri Vidon), an old fisherman, receives a lethal doze of radiation; his dying word is "behemoth". Later thousands of dead fish are washed ashore.

Director

Murder She Said, 1h27
Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Margaret Rutherford, John Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Stringer Davis, Bud Tingwell, James Robertson Justice
Roles Assistant Director
Rating72% 3.648313.648313.648313.648313.64831
While traveling by rail, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in the carriage of an overtaking train. The local police can find no evidence to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation and, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer (Stringer Davis), comes to the conclusion that the body must have been thrown off the train near the grounds of Ackenthorpe Hall, which adjoins the railway line.
The Snake Woman, 1h8
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Susan Travers, Elsie Wagstaff
Roles Assistant Director
Rating49% 2.463252.463252.463252.463252.46325
Over many years, a brilliant scientist in a turn of the century English village successfully keeps his wife's mental illness under control by injecting her with snake venom. When the wife dies giving birth to a daughter, a local witch claims that the child is pure evil and must be destroyed. The scientist is killed by an angry mob, but the baby girl is miraculously saved with the help of an understanding doctor. 19 years later several corpses are discovered on the moors, containing lethal amounts of snake poison. Fearful villagers believe the curse of the snake woman has struck, but a young Scotland Yard inspector is sceptical of the supernatural as he begins his investigation.
Fiend Without a Face, 1h15
Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Peter Madden, Tom Watson
Roles Assistant Director
Rating60% 3.049313.049313.049313.049313.04931
U. S. Air Force Interceptor Command Experimental Station No. 6 is a long-range radar installation located in Winthorp, Manitoba, Canada. Unexplained deaths begin to occur in the general area of a farming village near the American base. Postmortems reveal the victims were murdered and the brains and spinal cords are missing from the corpses; the only clue left behind are two puncture marks at the base of each skull. The locals, however, become convinced that radiation leaks from the radar installation's nuclear-power experiments are the cause of the mysterious deaths.