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Noël Coward is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Sound British born on 15 december 1899
Sir Noël Peirce Coward est un dramaturge britannique, né à Teddington (Middlesex) le 16 décembre 1899 et mort à Port Maria (Jamaïque) le 26 mars 1973. Célèbre pour son esprit, son élégance et son originalité, il fut également scénariste, acteur, compositeur, réalisateur et producteur.
Il était homosexuel, et vivait avec l'acteur sud-africain Graham Payn , mais il ne l'a jamais mentionné en public.
Il a été fait Knight Bachelor en 1969.
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Il participa dans sa jeunesse aux fêtes des Bright Young People.Il était homosexuel, et vivait avec l'acteur sud-africain Graham Payn , mais il ne l'a jamais mentionné en public.
Il a été fait Knight Bachelor en 1969.
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The Italian Job (1969)
, 1h39Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Raf Vallone, Benny Hill, Tony Beckley, Margaret Blye
Roles Mr. Bridger
Rating71%
Charlie Croker (Michael Caine), a Cockney gangster, is released from prison with the intent of doing a "big job" in Italy. He soon meets with the widow (Lelia Goldoni) of his friend and fellow thief Roger Beckermann (Rossano Brazzi), who was killed driving a Lamborghini Miura in a car crash in the Italian Alps. The car crash was arranged by the Mafia. The widow gives Croker her husband's plans for the robbery that attracted the hostile attention of his killers, and which detail a way to steal 4 million dollars worth of Chinese gold in Italy, and escape with it to Switzerland.
Boom! (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Joanna Shimkus, Noël Coward, Michael Dunn, Romolo Valli
Roles The Witch of Capri
Rating55%
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Angelo Del Morte" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
, 1h47Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Finlay Currie
Roles Horatio Wilson
Rating72%
American single mother Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People's Garden preschool to collect her daughter, Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting with Ann but claims never to have seen the missing child. Ann and her brother Stephen (Keir Dullea) search the school and find a sinister woman living upstairs, who claims she collects children's nightmares. In desperation, the Lakes call the police and Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) arrives on the scene.
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Tony Curtis, Mel Ferrer
Roles Alexander Meyerheim
Rating62%
The story concerns a veteran playboy screenwriter named Richard Benson (William Holden) who has been paid to write a screenplay for his boss, Mr. Alexander Myerheim (Noël Coward). Overly set in his playboy and carousing ways, he procrastinates the writing of the screenplay until just two days before it is due. Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn), a temp secretary hired by Benson to type the script, comes to Richard's hotel room where they are to work on the script, only then finding out about their tight deadline and that not one page or line of script had yet been written. The desperate and self-loathing writer, Richard, begins to be awakened and inspired by the beautiful Gabrielle, and starts to come up with various scenarios for his screenplay, called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower, which is based on their unfolding romance. The screenplay, with small but inspired and comedic roles for Noël Coward, Tony Curtis, and other famous stars of the day, makes fun of the movie business, actors, studio heads and itself, and is rife with allusions to the iconic earlier roles of the two main stars.
Surprise Package (1960)
, 1h40Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films
Actors Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward, George Coulouris, Eric Pohlmann, Warren Mitchell
Roles King Pavel II
Rating56%
Nico March (Yul Brynner) is being deported by the U.S. government. Not wanting his money confiscated, he orders accomplice Johnny (Bill Nagy) to hide it for now while also keeping an eye on Nico's longtime girlfriend, Gabby Rogers (Mitzi Gaynor).
Our Man in Havana (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Ralph Richardson, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward
Roles Hawthorne
Rating71%
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight, and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum parts to increase his value to the service and to procure more money for himself and his expensive daughter Milly (Jo Morrow). Because his importance grows, he is sent a secretary, Beatrice (Maureen O'Hara), and a radioman from London to be under his command. With their arrival it becomes much harder for Wormold to maintain his facade. However, all of his invented information begins to come true: his cables home are intercepted and believed to be true by enemy agents who then act against his "cell". One of his "agents" is killed, and he is himself targeted for assassination. He admits what he's done to his secretary, and is recalled to London. At the film's conclusion, rather than telling the truth to the prime minister and other military intelligence services, Wormold's commanders (led by Ralph Richardson) agree to fabricate a story claiming his imagined machines had been dismantled, bestow honors on Wormold, and offer him a position teaching espionage classes in London.
, 2h47Directed by John Farrow, Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke
Roles Roland Hesketh-Baggott
Rating66%
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
The Astonished Heart (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey, Amy Veness, Ralph Michael
Roles Dr. Christian Faber
Rating59%
The film follows the growing obsession of a psychiatrist (Coward) for a good-time girl (Leighton) and the resulting tragedy this leads to.
Blithe Spirit (1945)
, 1h36Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Ghost films, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Noel Coward
Actors Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Marie Ault
Roles Narrator (uncredited)
Rating69%
Seeking background material for a mystery he is working on, novelist Charles Condomine (Harrison) invites eccentric medium Madame Arcati (Rutherford) to his home in Lympne, Kent, to conduct a séance. As Charles, his wife Ruth (Cummings), and their guests the Bradmans barely restrain themselves from laughing, Madame Arcati performs peculiar rituals and finally goes into a trance. Charles then hears the voice of his dead first wife, Elvira (Hammond). When he discovers that the others cannot hear her, he passes off his odd behaviour as a joke. When Arcati recovers, she is certain that something extraordinary has occurred, but everyone denies it.
Brief Encounter (1945)
, 1h26Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Noel Coward
Actors Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Alfie Bass, Sydney Bromley
Roles Train Station Announcer (uncredited)
Rating79%
In the latter months of 1938, Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), a respectable middle-class British woman in an affectionate but rather dull marriage, tells her story while sitting at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him.
In Which We Serve (1942)
, 1h55Directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Mills, Michael Wilding, Bernard Miles, Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Philip Friend
Roles Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. / Captain 'D'
Rating71%
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers.
Men Are Not Gods (1937)
, 1h30Directed by Jack Clayton, Walter Reisch
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, Rex Harrison, A. E. Matthews, Noël Coward
Roles Passer-by (uncredited)
Rating59%
In London, critic Mr. Skeates dictates a scathing review of Edmund Davey, the lead actor debuting in the play Othello, to his secretary, Ann Williams. Barbara Albert, Davey's co-star and wife, comes to the newspaper offices to plead her husband's case. Skeates has already left, so she begs Ann for help to save Edmund's career, insisting that he is a great actor who was simply overwhelmed by his great opportunity. Ann is touched and takes a great risk (as Skeates never reads his own work), rewriting the review to praise the actor's performance. The critic, however, finds out when Edmund thanks him for his kind words, and Ann is given the sack.
The Scoundrel (1935)
, 1h16Directed by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Ghost films
Actors Julie Haydon, Noël Coward, Harry Davenport, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper, Rosita Moreno
Roles Anthony Mallare
Rating61%
Anthony Mallare (Coward) is a publisher who (it appears) wishes to ruin the life of every person he comes in contact with. Every sentence he says is like a poisoned dart aimed for the greatest damage, and delivered in cold lifeless tones. He is under no illusion regarding his own personality, remarking to his staff at large that he has found the perfect woman - one as empty as he is: "I must marry her......it would be like two empty paper bags belaboring one another". He finally manages to completely destroy the career and life of an aspiring young author (Ridges) and his girlfriend (Haydon), who curses him with the hope that he will die friendless. Shortly afterwards he is killed when his plane crashes into the ocean—Haydon's character, upon hearing of the tragedy, remarks, "I've just found out there IS a God!"
Hearts of the World (1918)
, 2h2Directed by Erich von Stroheim, D. W. Griffith, Alfred Machin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Ben Alexander, Robert Harron, Josephine Crowell, Erich von Stroheim
Roles The Man with the Wheelbarrow / A Villager in the Streets
Rating65%
Two families live next to one another in a French village on the eve of World War I. The Boy in one of the families falls for the only daughter in the other family. As they make preparations for marriage, World War I breaks out, and, although the Boy is American, he feels he should fight for the country in which he lives.
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In Which We Serve (1942)
, 1h55Directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Mills, Michael Wilding, Bernard Miles, Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Philip Friend
Rating71%
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers.