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James Clavell is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 10 october 1924 at Sydney (Australie)
James Clavell (10 October 1924 – 6 September 1994), born Charles Edmund DuMaresq Clavell, was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love.
(1963)
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 october 1924 at Sydney (Australie)
Death 7 september 1994 (at 69 years) at Vevey (Suisse)
Birth 10 october 1924 at Sydney (Australie)
Death 7 september 1994 (at 69 years) at Vevey (Suisse)
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The Last Valley (1971)
, 2h8Directed by Brian W. Cook, James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Yorgo Voyagis
Rating69%
"The Captain" (Michael Caine) leads a band of mercenaries who fight for the highest bidder regardless of religion. His soldiers pillage the countryside, and rape and loot when not fighting. Vogel (Omar Sharif) is a former teacher trying to survive the slaughter of civilians occurring throughout south-central Germany. Vogel runs from The Captain's forces, but eventually stumbles upon an idyllic mountain vale, untouched by war.
Where's Jack? (1969)
Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Michael Douglas
Rating64%
To Sir, with Love (1967)
, 1h45Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Ann Bell, Lulu, Geoffrey Bayldon
Rating75%
Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), an unemployed man, applies for an engineering job but it will be a long time before a decision is made. He also applies for, and is awarded, a teaching position at the North Quay Secondary School in the tough East End of London. He comes from British Guyana via California.
Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
, 1h35Directed by James Clavell
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta, Mel Tormé, Josephine Hutchinson, Rodolfo Acosta
Rating66%
Five Gates to Hell (1959)
, 1h38Directed by James Clavell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Actors Dolores Michaels, Patricia Owens, Neville Brand, Nobu McCarthy, Benson Fong, Nancy Kulp
Rating58%
Un petit groupe de médecins et d'infirmières de la Croix-Rouge sont maintenus captifs par des guérillas chinois au Vietnam
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Tai-Pan (1986)
, 2h7Directed by Daryl Duke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, Tim Guinee, Russell Wong, John Stanton, Kyra Sedgwick
Roles Novel
Rating55%
The film begins following the British victory of the First Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
Shōgun (miniseries) (1980)
, 9h7Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yōko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern
Roles Author
Rating81%
After his Dutch trading ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Injiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. When he is later temporarily released, he must juggle his self-identity as an Englishman associated with other Europeans in Japan, namely Portuguese traders and Jesuit priests, with the alien Japanese culture into which he has been thrust and now must adapt to in order to survive. Being an Englishman, Blackthorne is at both religious and political odds with his enemy, the Portuguese, and the Catholic Church's Jesuit order. The Catholic foothold in Japan puts Blackthorne, a Protestant and therefore a heretic, at a political disadvantage. But this same situation also brings him to the attention of the influential Lord Toranaga, who mistrusts this foreign religion now spreading in Japan. He is competing with other samurai warlords of similar high-born rank, among them Catholic converts, for the very powerful position of Shōgun, the military governor of Japan.
The Last Valley (1971)
, 2h8Directed by Brian W. Cook, James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Yorgo Voyagis
Roles Writer
Rating69%
"The Captain" (Michael Caine) leads a band of mercenaries who fight for the highest bidder regardless of religion. His soldiers pillage the countryside, and rape and loot when not fighting. Vogel (Omar Sharif) is a former teacher trying to survive the slaughter of civilians occurring throughout south-central Germany. Vogel runs from The Captain's forces, but eventually stumbles upon an idyllic mountain vale, untouched by war.
To Sir, with Love (1967)
, 1h45Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Ann Bell, Lulu, Geoffrey Bayldon
Roles Writer
Rating75%
Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), an unemployed man, applies for an engineering job but it will be a long time before a decision is made. He also applies for, and is awarded, a teaching position at the North Quay Secondary School in the tough East End of London. He comes from British Guyana via California.
King Rat (1965)
, 2h14Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Political films
Actors George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Gerald Sim, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott
Roles Novel
Rating74%
Corporal King is an anomaly in the Japanese prison camp; one of a handful of Americans amongst the British and Australian inmates, he thrives through his conniving and black market enterprises, while others (nearly all of higher rank) struggle to survive sickness and starvation, while trying to keep their civilised nature. King recruits upper class British RAF officer Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe (James Fox) to act as a translator. As they become acquainted, Marlowe comes to like the man and appreciate his cunning. King respects Marlowe, but his attitude is otherwise ambiguous; when Marlowe is injured, King obtains expensive medicines to save Marlowe's gangrenous arm from amputation, but it is unclear whether he does so out of friendship or because Marlowe is the only one who knows where the proceeds from King's latest and most profitable venture are hidden.
The Satan Bug (1965)
, 1h54Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Spy, Horror, Crime
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asnere, Richard Bull
Rating60%
Lee Barrett, a private investigator and former intelligence agent discharged for his outspoken views, is approached by a man with a tempting offer to join a political organization opposing bioweapons. His refusal proves the correct response, as the man is an impersonator sent by his former boss Eric Cavanaugh to test his loyalty. Barrett is asked by Cavanaugh to investigate the murder of the security chief of Station Three — a top-secret bioweapons laboratory station in the desert of Southern California — and the disappearance of its director and head scientist, Dr. Baxter. After they arrive at the station and wait for a time lock on the sealed lab to open, they are advised by another scientist, Dr. Gregor Hoffman, to seal the lab using concrete. Hoffman informs them that there are two lethal bioweapons in the lab, a strain of botulinus that oxidizes eight hours after its release, and a recently developed virus that he calls the "Satan Bug", which could kill all life on Earth in a matter of months. Determined to discover what happened in the room and taking extreme cautions, Barrett enters to find Dr. Baxter dead, with the vials containing the "Satan Bug" and 1200 grams of botulinus missing.
633 Squadron (1964)
, 1h41Directed 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
Rating63%
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).
The Great Escape (1963)
, 2h45Directed by John Sturges, John Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Political films, Évasion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Rating81%
In 1943, having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied prisoners of war (POWs), the Germans move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner of war camp. The commandant, Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger (Hannes Messemer), tells the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey (James Donald), "There will be no escapes from this camp." Von Luger points out the various features of the new camp designed to prevent escape, as well as the perks the prisoners will receive as an incentive not to try. After several failed escape attempts on the first day, the POWs settle into life at the prison camp.
Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
, 1h35Directed by James Clavell
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta, Mel Tormé, Josephine Hutchinson, Rodolfo Acosta
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Five Gates to Hell (1959)
, 1h38Directed by James Clavell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Actors Dolores Michaels, Patricia Owens, Neville Brand, Nobu McCarthy, Benson Fong, Nancy Kulp
Rating58%
Un petit groupe de médecins et d'infirmières de la Croix-Rouge sont maintenus captifs par des guérillas chinois au Vietnam