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Herbert Wilcox is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 19 april 1890 at Cork (Irlande)

Herbert Wilcox

Herbert Wilcox
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 april 1890 at Cork (Irlande)
Death 15 may 1977 (at 87 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Herbert Wilcox est un producteur de cinéma, réalisateur, scénariste, et acteur britannique né le 19 avril 1892 à Cork (Irlande), décédé le 15 mai 1977 à Londres (Royaume-Uni).

Biography

Herbert Sydney Wilcox, bien qu'il naquit à Cork, en Irlande, le 19 avril 1892, fut éduqué à Brighton. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, il servit dans l'armée de l'air au sein du Royal Flying Corps.

Il fit ses premiers pas dans l'industrie cinématographique en 1919 et, avec Jack Graham Cutts, il fut le cofondateur d'une compagnie dès 1920.

Il fut à l'origine de la British National Company, qui sera plus tard absorbée par British International Pictures. Il démarra également un « Hollywood britannique » dans les studios d'Elstree.

Bien que Chantage (Blackmail, 1929) d'Alfred Hitchcock soit généralement considéré comme le premier film sonore, Black Waters de Wilcox, fut projeté à l'occasion d'une foire commerciale plusieurs semaines auparavant.

Il produisit plus d'une centaine de films, et en dirigea à peu près la moitié. En 1937, il fut lauréat de la Nations Cup pour la meilleure première pour son film La Reine Victoria (Victoria the Great), qui reçut par ailleurs une nomination pour la Coupe Mussolini.

Il épousa Maude Bower, avec qui il eut quatre enfants, puis l'actrice britannique Anna Neagle, le 9 août 1943. Il ne fut jamais capable de réitérer son succès d'avant guerre et son entreprise fit faillite en 1964. Avant sa mort, qui survint à Londres le 15 mai 1977, des suites d'une longue maladie, il légua quatre récompenses reçues du National Film, à l'hospice de Glebelands à Wokingham.

Best films

Odette (1950)
(Director)

Usually with

Anna Neagle
Anna Neagle
(37 films)
Freddie Young
Freddie Young
(31 films)
Miles Malleson
Miles Malleson
(18 films)
Mutz Greenbaum
Mutz Greenbaum
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Herbert Wilcox (103 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Volunteer, 45minutes
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Ralph Richardson, Michael Powell, Anna Neagle, Laurence Olivier, Herbert Wilcox, Anthony Asquith
Roles Himself
Rating59% 2.995642.995642.995642.995642.99564
L'engagement de l'habilleur d'un acteur de théâtre britannique, qui devient un héros et reçoit la Distinguished Service Medal au Palais de Buckingham.

Director

The Lady is a Square, 1h40
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott, Anthony Newley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kenneth Cope
Rating58% 2.916092.916092.916092.916092.91609
Mrs Baring, a businesswoman and patron of classical music, has arranged for a celebrated Eastern Bloc musician, Spolenski, to play in a series of concerts in Britain. However, she is aware that she is on the brink of bankruptcy and the Spolenski tour offers a final chance to save her finances.
The Heart of a Man, 1h32
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton, Michael Medwin, Anthony Newley, Harry Fowler
Rating49% 2.478852.478852.478852.478852.47885
On propose à Frankie, un ancien marin, 1 000 Livres s'il arrive à gagner honnêtement 100 £ en une semaine. Après plusieurs essais comme boxeur ou videur de boîte de nuit, il réussira en tant que chanteur.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Dora Bryan, Patrick Allen
Rating62% 3.141523.141523.141523.141523.14152
A courtroom drama, it sees an American scientist charged for murder by the British police for his supposed role in the death of an Eastern Bloc defector.
These Dangerous Years
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Military humor in film, Musical films
Actors George Baker, Frankie Vaughan, Dame Thora Hird, Carole Lesley, Jocelyn Lane, Kenneth Cope
Rating60% 3.0035953.0035953.0035953.0035953.003595
Tough gang leader and wannabee rock star Dave Wyman, from the slums of Liverpool, gets the call up for military service. He undergoes basic training, finds the discipline surprisingly suits him, and emerges stronger. When his best friend from training is killed by the camp bully, Dave takes revenge, and eventually ends up marrying his singing partner.
Lilacs in the Spring, 1h34
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Graves, Helen Haye
Rating51% 2.5781852.5781852.5781852.5781852.578185
An actress is knocked unconscious during the Blitz and imagines herself as various historical figures including Nell Gwynn and Queen Victoria.
Trouble in the Glen, 1h31
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen, John McCallum, Eddie Byrne
Rating54% 2.7156752.7156752.7156752.7156752.715675
After moving from South America to the Scottish Highlands, millionaire Sanin Cejador y Mengues (Welles) reassumes the title of laird of Glen Easan, which he inherited from his grandfather, Sandy Menzies. Obstinate in nature, Mengues soon finds the climate inhospitable, and the language and customs of the Highland people exasperating. While fishing on the loch with his equally stubborn, distantly related cousin Angus, who works as a fishing or hunting guide for the estate, Mengues hooks and then loses a large trout, and the confrontation escalates from Gaelic epithets and an overturned boat to Mengues firing Angus. When the locals then refuse to work for him and his cattle roam unmanaged over the glen, Mengues, advised by Oliver Dukes (Archie Duncan), his factor from Glasgow whom the villagers distrust, closes a heavily used road that leads through his property.
Derby Day
Derby Day (1952)
, 1h24
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Samuel John Kydd, John McCallum
Rating63% 3.191343.191343.191343.191343.19134
On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. Meanwhile, as part of a charity raffle, a dissolute film star, Gerald Berkeley, is to escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom for the day something he is equally reluctant about. Happily she falls and injures her leg, and her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young maids to go in her place. Meanwhile, in Battersea, a lodger kills a man whose wife he is having an affair with. They plan to flee the country, and also head to Epsom where he knows a tipster who can smuggle them out.
Trent's Last Case, 1h30
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson, Hugh McDermott
Rating59% 2.999442.999442.999442.999442.99944
A major international financier is found dead at his Hampshire home. The Record newspaper assigns its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to the case. In spite of the police cordon, he manages to gain entry to the house by posing as a relative. While there he manages to pick up some of the background to the case from Inspector Murch, the Irish detective leading the investigation. Despite Murch's suggestion that the death is suicide, Trent quickly becomes convinced that it was in fact murder.
The Lady with a Lamp, 1h50
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Young, Edwin Styles, Rosalie Crutchley
Rating63% 3.187533.187533.187533.187533.18753
Illustrating the political complexities the hard-headed nurse had to battle in order to achieve sanitary medical conditions during the Crimean War. Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Florence Nightingale is championed by the Hon. Sidney Herbert (Michael Wilding), minister of war. Herbert pulls strings to allow Nightingale and her nursing staff access to battlefield hospitals, and in so doing changes the course of medical history.
Odette
Odette (1950)
, 2h4
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Quéant
Rating68% 3.4377953.4377953.4377953.4377953.437795
Le film relate l'activité d'Odette Sansom, héroïne française du Special Operations Executive, qui fut courrier (agent de liaison) dans le réseau SPINDLE de Peter Churchill actif dans le sud-est de la France, et qui fut arrêtée en avril 1943 avant d'être déportée à Ravensbrück.