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Bert Bates is a Production Manager and Editor British born on 18 august 1907

Bert Bates

Bert Bates
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Birth name Albert Bates
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 august 1907
Death 23 april 1976 (at 68 years)

Albert « Bert » Bates — né le 18 août 1907 à Walthamstow (Grand Londres) et mort le 23 avril 1976 à Barnet (Grand Londres) — est un monteur anglais (parfois crédité A. S. Bates).

Biography

Bert Bates est monteur au cinéma sur une soixantaine de films (majoritairement britanniques, parfois américains ou en coproduction), le premier sorti en 1931.

Parmi ses contributions notables, mentionnons Les Amants du Capricorne d'Alfred Hitchcock (1949, avec Ingrid Bergman et Joseph Cotten), L'amour mène la danse d'H. Bruce Humberstone (1951, avec David Niven et Vera-Ellen), Anastasia d'Anatole Litvak (1956, avec Ingrid Bergman et Yul Brynner), Le Deuxième Homme de Carol Reed (1963, avec Laurence Harvey et Lee Remick), ainsi que Les Héros de Télémark d'Anthony Mann (1965, avec Kirk Douglas et Richard Harris).

Ses deux derniers films, réalisés par Guy Hamilton, sont Les Diamants sont éternels (1971) et Vivre et laisser mourir (1973), de la série cinématographique dédiée à James Bond (personnifié alors par Roger Moore).

Best films

Live and Let Die (1973)
(Editor)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
(Editor)
Trapeze (1956)
(Editor)
Anastasia (1956)
(Editor)
Battle of Britain (1969)
(Editor)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
(Editor)

Usually with

Carol Reed
Carol Reed
(7 films)
Basil Emmott
Basil Emmott
(7 films)
Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bert Bates (53 films)

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Producer

Green for Danger, 1h31
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell
Roles Production Manager
Rating73% 3.693553.693553.693553.693553.69355
In August 1944, during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive on London, a murder is committed in Heron's Park Emergency Hospital, a rural British hospital somewhere in the Southeast of England. Joseph Higgins (Marriott) dies on the operating table after being injured by a flying bomb. The anaesthetist, Barney Barnes (Howard), has had a patient die in similar circumstances previously.
I See a Dark Stranger, 1h52
Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Brenda Bruce
Roles Production Manager
Rating69% 3.4928453.4928453.4928453.4928453.492845
In May 1944, during World War II, when nationalistic Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) turns 21, she sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream engendered by listening to her late father's stories of the Irish Revolution. She leaves her small rural village and goes to Dublin. On the way, she shares a train compartment with J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), but believing him to be English, she is very brusque with him. Once in the city, she seeks out a famous ex-radical her father had supposedly fought alongside, Michael O'Callaghan (Brefni O'Rorke), and asks him to help her join the Irish Republican Army. However, he has mellowed as the situation in Ireland has improved and tries unsuccessfully to dissuade her from her overly romantic notion.

Editor

Live and Let Die, 2h2
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Films about drugs, Films about terrorism, Transport films
Actors Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, David Hedison, Geoffrey Holder, Bernard Lee
Roles Editor
Rating66% 3.34833.34833.34833.34833.3483
Three MI6 agents, including one "on loan" to the American government, are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours of each other in the United Nations, New Orleans and a small Caribbean island, San Monique, respectively, while monitoring the operations of Dr. Kananga, the island's dictator. James Bond, agent 007, is sent to New York City to investigate the first murder. Kananga is also in New York, visiting the United Nations. Just after Bond arrives, his driver is shot dead by Whisper, one of Kananga's men, while taking Bond to meet Felix Leiter of the CIA. Bond is nearly killed in the ensuing car crash.
Diamonds Are Forever, 2h
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Space adventure films, Spy films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Satellite
Actors Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bernard Lee
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.249113.249113.249113.249113.24911
James Bond—agent 007—pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud.
The Light at the Edge of the World, 2h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, Samantha Eggar, Fernando Rey, Massimo Ranieri, Renato Salvatori
Roles Editor
Rating59% 2.9983952.9983952.9983952.9983952.998395
The year is 1865. Will Denton (Kirk Douglas) is a jaded American miner escaping a troubled past. Seeking isolation for two reasons - to mend his broken heart after a failed romance during the California Gold Rush, and also to escape punishment after he murdered a man in a gunfight - Denton tends a lonely and isolated lighthouse with a minimal crew of three men, himself included.
Battle of Britain, 2h31
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine
Roles Editor
Rating68% 3.449123.449123.449123.449123.44912
In the Battle of France in June 1940, RAF pilots evacuate a small airfield in advance of the German Blitzkrieg. The pilots, along with British and French military, leave just as German aircraft arrive and execute a heavy strafing attack. RAF Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (Laurence Olivier), realising that an imminent invasion of Great Britain will require every available aircraft and airman to counter it, stops additional aircraft being deployed to France so that they are available to defend Britain. In the next dramatic scene, French civilians watch in awe as a convoy of German troops march into France and take control.
Interlude
Interlude (1968)
, 1h30
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Oskar Werner, June Allyson, Barbara Ferris, Rossano Brazzi, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.096543.096543.096543.096543.09654
A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and finds he's given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude and the accumulation of differences in their ages and background begins to mount up.
The Long Duel, 1h55
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Charlotte Rampling, Harry Andrews, Virginia North, Andrew Keir
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.943192.943192.943192.943192.94319
En 1920 au Fort de Najibadad, à la frontière du nord des Indes, les Banthas, une tribu de nomades, sont emprisonnés par l'officier Stafford et ce sous un prétexte futile. Sultan, chef de la tribu, parvient à s'évader et décide de mener une révolte. Réfugié dans la montagne avec son armée, Sultan déjoue les pièges tendus par les soldats anglais, tout en évitant de verser du sang…
Cast a Giant Shadow, 2h26
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Frank Sinatra
Roles Editor
Rating62% 3.1489953.1489953.1489953.1489953.148995
The film is a fictionalized account of the experiences of a real-life Jewish-American military officer, Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, who commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Return of the Seven, 1h35
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernández
Roles Editor
Rating55% 2.767712.767712.767712.767712.76771
Fifty gunmen force all of the men in a small Mexican village to ride off with them into the desert. Among the captured farmers is Chico, who years before was one of seven hired gunslingers responsible for ridding the village of a tyrannical bandit, Calvera. Chico's wife, Petra, seeks out the other members of the band of whom only two, Chris and Vin, survive. She begs them to save the village once more. To replace the deceased members of the group, Chris buys the release of Frank (a taciturn gunman) and Luis (a famous bandit), held in the local jail and recruits Colbee, a ladies' man and deadly gunman, and Manuel, a young cockfighter.
The Heroes of Telemark, 2h11
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Roy Dotrice, John Golightly
Roles Editor
Rating65% 3.253053.253053.253053.253053.25305
The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water, which could be used in the manufacture of an Atomic bomb.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, 1h51
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Olivia Hussey, Phyllis Calvert, Martin Stephens
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.9037152.9037152.9037152.9037152.903715
In Italy, two children, Michael (Martin Stephens) and Debbie (Elizabeth Dear), are aware that their mother, Moira (Maureen O'Hara) has left them for a lover, a famous Italian composer and they are staying at the Villa Fiorita. Michael convinces Debbie to run away to the Villa to fetch their mother, and forces her to sell her prized pony to afford the journey. They arrive, and the lover, Lorenzo (Rossano Brazzi) calls their father to inform him that the children have run away and that he will be sending them home. However, Michael falls ill and Lorenzo allows them both to stay. Debbie joins forces with Donna, the daughter of their mother's lover, to manipulate Moira into returning to Britain. A hunger strike by the girls ensues which fails and culminates in Moira slapping Debbie and Lorenzo spanking Donna. Lorenzo finally decides to send the children home but Michael and Donna attempt to run away on a sailboat during a storm. After the two nearly drown, Moira and Lorenzo agree that they have lost the battle, and a heartbroken Moira returns to England with her children.
633 Squadron, 1h41
Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe
Roles Editor
Rating63% 3.1978053.1978053.1978053.1978053.197805
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman travels to Great Britain to report the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's No. 633 Squadron is assigned to destroy it. The squadron is led by Wing Commander Roy Grant, an ex-Eagle Squadron pilot (U.S. fighter pilots serving in the RAF before America entered the war).
A Shot in the Dark, 1h42
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond
Roles Editor
Rating73% 3.6984753.6984753.6984753.6984753.698475
Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of Paris plutocrat Benjamin Ballon to investigate the murder of his Spanish chauffeur Miguel. The chauffeur was having an affair with the maid, Maria Gambrelli, who claims that he often beat her. Although all the evidence points to Gambrelli as the killer, Clouseau refuses to admit her guilt after he develops an instant attraction to her.
The Running Man, 1h43
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Fernando Rey, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.2488253.2488253.2488253.2488253.248825
In Croydon, England, seemingly grieving Stella Black (Lee Remick) has just returned home from her husband's funeral. Apparently, he died in a gliding accident when the glider he had rented crashed into the sea, and his body was never recovered. In reality, she knows her husband Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) is still alive and has been in hiding at a seaside boarding house for three months under the assumed name of Erskine, a shoe salesman on vacation, between the time of his "death" and the funeral. He has just clandestinely returned home following the funeral. They are perpetrating this ruse to collect on the £50,000 life insurance money from the Excelsior Insurance Company. They feel Excelsior owes them this money as, in the previous year, Excelsior did not pay out a £20,000 business insurance claim when his airplane, which he used to operate his own transport company, went down in bad weather on a flight to Hamburg, West Germany, and was destroyed. His insurance had lapsed by two days due to someone's error in not paying the latest premium – Rex admitting that it may have been his error - which in turn ruined his business.