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Carol Reed is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director British born on 30 december 1906 at Putney (United-kingdom)
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949). For Oliver! (1968), he received the Academy Award for Best Director.
Reed servit dans l'armée britannique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, expérience dont il eut plusieurs occasions de se servir dans les films qu'il tournera par la suite.
Il entama au théâtre une carrière d'acteur alors qu'il était encore adolescent et il ne fallut guère de temps avant qu'il ne devienne producteur réalisateur, avec à son actif des films comme Sous le regard des étoiles (The Stars Look Down, 1939), Kipps (1941), Huit Heures de sursis (Odd Man Out, 1947), Le Banni des îles (Outcast of the Islands, 1952) et L'Extase et l'Agonie (The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965). C'est surtout pour les adaptations cinématographiques des romans de Graham Greene écrites en collaboration avec ce dernier que Reed a acquis sa réputation : Première Désillusion (The Fallen Idol, 1948), le classique Troisième Homme (The Third Man, 1949) qui reçoit le Grand Prix du Jury à Cannes et Notre Agent à La Havane (Our Man in Havana, 1959) ; pour les deux premiers, Reed est en outre nommé pour l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur, distinction qu'il ne reçoit pas ces fois-là.
En 1953, il devient le premier metteur en scène de cinéma britannique à être anobli pour son œuvre.
Un des derniers films qu'il réalise est Oliver ! (1968), l'adaptation de la comédie musicale éponyme, elle-même tirée d'Oliver Twist, le roman de Charles Dickens. Le film vaut à Reed tous les honneurs, car il remporte pas moins de cinq Oscars dont, enfin, celui du Meilleur réalisateur.
Carol Reed est mort d'un infarctus du myocarde le 25 avril 1976 à son domicile, Nº 213 King's Road à Chelsea, Londres, à l'âge de 69 ans.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 december 1906 at Putney (United-kingdom)
Death 25 april 1976 (at 69 years) at Chelsea (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Birth 30 december 1906 at Putney (United-kingdom)
Death 25 april 1976 (at 69 years) at Chelsea (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Biography
Fils illégitime de l'acteur et producteur Herbert Beerbohm Tree et de sa maîtresse May Pinney Reed, Carol Reed est né à Putney, Londres, et fréquenta la King's School de Canterbury.Reed servit dans l'armée britannique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, expérience dont il eut plusieurs occasions de se servir dans les films qu'il tournera par la suite.
Il entama au théâtre une carrière d'acteur alors qu'il était encore adolescent et il ne fallut guère de temps avant qu'il ne devienne producteur réalisateur, avec à son actif des films comme Sous le regard des étoiles (The Stars Look Down, 1939), Kipps (1941), Huit Heures de sursis (Odd Man Out, 1947), Le Banni des îles (Outcast of the Islands, 1952) et L'Extase et l'Agonie (The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965). C'est surtout pour les adaptations cinématographiques des romans de Graham Greene écrites en collaboration avec ce dernier que Reed a acquis sa réputation : Première Désillusion (The Fallen Idol, 1948), le classique Troisième Homme (The Third Man, 1949) qui reçoit le Grand Prix du Jury à Cannes et Notre Agent à La Havane (Our Man in Havana, 1959) ; pour les deux premiers, Reed est en outre nommé pour l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur, distinction qu'il ne reçoit pas ces fois-là.
En 1953, il devient le premier metteur en scène de cinéma britannique à être anobli pour son œuvre.
Un des derniers films qu'il réalise est Oliver ! (1968), l'adaptation de la comédie musicale éponyme, elle-même tirée d'Oliver Twist, le roman de Charles Dickens. Le film vaut à Reed tous les honneurs, car il remporte pas moins de cinq Oscars dont, enfin, celui du Meilleur réalisateur.
Carol Reed est mort d'un infarctus du myocarde le 25 avril 1976 à son domicile, Nº 213 King's Road à Chelsea, Londres, à l'âge de 69 ans.
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Filmography of Carol Reed (38 films)
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Add to a movie listThe Third Man (1949)
, 1h44Directed by Carol Reed, Guy Hamilton, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles UK Version's Opening Narrator (uncredited)
Rating80%
American pulp Western writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in Allied-occupied Vienna seeking his childhood friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), who has offered him a job. Upon arrival he discovers that Lime was killed just days earlier by a speeding truck while crossing the street. Martins attends Lime's funeral, where he meets two British Army Police: Sergeant Paine (Bernard Lee), a fan of Martins' pulp fiction; and his superior, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), who says Lime was a criminal and suggests Martins leave town.
The Flying Squad (1929)
Directed by Arthur Maude
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Wyndham Standing, Henry Vibart, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Carol Reed
Roles Offender
Director
Follow Me! (1972)
, 1h35Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mia Farrow, Chaim Topol, Michael Jayston, Margaret Rawlings, Annette Crosbie, Dudley Foster
Rating68%
Set in London, it is the story of a wealthy businessman (Michael Jayston), who suspects that his wife (Farrow) is having an affair. He hires a private detective (Topol) to follow her. She becomes aware that she is being followed, and the detective realises that she has found out. However rather than abandoning the case, the detective begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with the complicity of the wife.
Flap (1970)
, 1h46Directed by Carol Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory, Don Collier
Rating57%
Flapping Eagle lives on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States. He drinks too much, one of many sources of disagreement between Flap and his sweetheart, Dorothy Bluebell. He also has trouble with his arch-rival, Sgt. Rafferty, a brutal, bigoted police officer in town.
Oliver! (1968)
, 2h33Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild, Harry Secombe
Rating73%
A workhouse in Dunstable, England is visited by the wealthy governors who fund it. While a sumptuous banquet is held for them, the barefoot orphan boys who work there are being served their daily gruel. They dream of enjoying the same "Food, Glorious Food" as their masters. While eating, some boys draw straws to see who will ask for more to eat, and the job falls to a boy named Oliver Twist. He goes up to Bumble and Widow Corney, who run the workhouse and serve the gruel, and asks for more. Enraged, Bumble takes Oliver to the governors to see what to do with him ("Oliver!"). A decision is made to have Oliver sold into service. Bumble parades Oliver through the snow, trying to sell him to the highest bidder ("Boy for Sale"). Oliver is sold to an undertaker named Mr. Sowerberry, who intends to use him as a mourner for children's funerals. After his first funeral, Noah Claypole, Sowerberry's apprentice, insults Oliver's mother. Oliver attacks Noah in fury and Sowerberry forces him into a coffin while Noah fetches Bumble. Oliver is too angry to be intimidated by Bumble, who places the blame on not keeping Oliver on a diet of gruel, instead of meat, which made him strong. Oliver is thrown into the cellar as further punishment. Alone in the dark with a roomful of empty coffins, Oliver wonders ("Where is Love?"). While clutching the window grate, Oliver pushes it open and escapes.
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
, 2h18Directed by Carol Reed, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Peinture, Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi
Rating70%
Michelangelo Buonarroti, a sculptor from Florence, is first commissioned to craft the Pope's tomb in Rome. Instead, Pope Julius II orders him to paint frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling depicting the Twelve Apostles. After his first attempt at painting the Apostles, he destroys his work and flees to Carrara to quarry Carrara marble. He evades the pope's guard and flees into the mountains, where he becomes inspired.
The Running Man (1963)
, 1h43Directed 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
Rating64%
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.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
, 2h58Directed by Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Psychologie, Transport films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Gordon Jackson, Richard Haydn
Rating71%
In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from England for Tahiti under the command of captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard). Her mission is to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, where hopefully it will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves.
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
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.
The Key (1958)
, 2h14Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Bernard Lee, Kieron Moore
Rating66%
American David Ross (William Holden), a former tugboat captain now in the Canadian army, is hastily commissioned in the Royal Navy and assigned to rotating command of W88, a double-crewed rescue tug then in dry dock due to battle damage. His predecessor was a suicide. The slow, poorly armed tugboats bring in "lame ducks," freighters crippled near England by German attacks. The main danger is from U-boats and aircraft.
Trapeze (1956)
, 1h41Directed by Carol Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Minor Watson
Rating67%
Crippled trapeze aerialist and former star Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster) sees great promise in young, brash Tino Orsini (Tony Curtis). Ribble—only the sixth man to have completed the dangerous triple somersault—thinks his protégé is capable of matching the same feat but only if he gives him rigorous training. However, Orsini is distracted by the new third member of their circus act, the manipulative Lola (Gina Lollobrigida). Tensions rise as a love triangle forms.
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
, 1h36Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Actors Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Brenda De Banzie, Lou Jacobi
Rating63%
In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's East End everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams. Then a small boy - Joe - buys a unicorn, in fact a sickly little goat, with just one twisted horn in the middle of its forehead. This, he has been led to believe by a local tailor, Kandinsky, will bring everyone good fortune.
The Man Between (1953)
, 1h40Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone, Aribert Wäscher, Ernst Schröder
Rating69%
Ivo Kern (James Mason) is a former lawyer who has participated in Nazi atrocities and is now selling his expertise to East Germans to kidnap and transport certain West Germans to the eastern bloc. Although Kern desires to relocate to the West, he is hampered by West German suspicions and his criminal past. Nevertheless, he agrees to a final kidnapping venture that fails, forcing his employer to take over and abduct Briton Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) by mistake. Kern had earlier feigned a romance with Mallison as a means to seize his kidnapping target.
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
, 1h42Directed by Carol Reed, Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Morley, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kerima
Rating68%
Peter Willems, a selfish and ambitious man, is accused of stealing in his position as manager of a shipping port operation near Singapore. After he is terminated for his offense he reacquaints himself with the trading ship captain (Capt. Lingard) who befriended him as a 12-year-old boy. Lingard agrees to help Willems regain his reputation by taking him to a trading village located up a difficult-to-navigate channel near the coast of Batam. Lingard's son-in-law, Elmer Almeyer, operates a trading operation for Capt. Lingard in the village. Lingard asks Almeyer to take Willems under his wing and teach him the business. While Lingard is gone on one of his sea trips, Willems abuses his trust, seduces the village chieftain's daughter, attempts to steal Almeyer's business operation, humiliates Almeyer before the villagers, and shares the navigation secrets of the channel with a trader who competes with Capt. Lingard. Lingard returns to discover the mess Willems has made and confronts Willems — who has now been condemned by the villagers because of the shame he brought to the frail and dying chieftain. He abandons Willems to live in isolation and exile.
The Fallen Idol (1949)
, 1h35Directed by Carol Reed, Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Actors Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Jack Hawkins, Michèle Morgan, Denis O'Dea, Sonia Dresdel
Rating75%
The film is told through the naive eyes of a diplomat's young son, Phillipe, who idolises his father's butler, Baines. Baines has invented a heroic persona to keep the boy entertained, and often tells him stories of his exotic and daring adventures in Africa and elsewhere, stories such as putting down a native uprising single-handed, killing a man in self-defense, and so on.