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Leslie Bricusse is a Scriptwriter, Executive Producer and Sound British born on 29 january 1931 at London (United-kingdom)

Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 29 january 1931 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 19 october 2021 (at 90 years)

Leslie Bricusse, né le 29 janvier 1931 à Londres, est un parolier et compositeur britannique connu pour sa collaboration avec Anthony Newley et les compositeurs John Barry, John Williams et Henry Mancini. Leslie Bricusse est notamment connu pour avoir coécrit avec Anthony Newley la chanson Goldfinger, composée par John Barry. Il a reçu deux Oscars de la meilleure chanson originale et un Grammy Award de la chanson de l'année.

Best films

Home Alone (1990)
(Lyricist)
Hook (1991)
(Lyricist)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
(Lyricist)
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
(Scriptwriter)
Scrooge (1970)
(Lyricist)

Usually with

Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(4 films)
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
(5 films)
Tony Adams
Tony Adams
(4 films)
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leslie Bricusse (23 films)

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Scriptwriter

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, 2h15
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Hasselhoff, Barrie Ingham, George Merritt, John Treacy Egan, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Kelli O'Hara
Roles Lyricist
Rating63% 3.1977953.1977953.1977953.1977953.197795
Version musicale de l'histoire de Robert Louis Stevenson au sujet d'un médecin, le Dr. Henry Jekyll, qui effectue une expérience sur lui-même qui a pour conséquence l'émergence du côté sombre, meurtrier de son moi intérieur, «Mr. Hyde».
Victor/Victoria, 2h26
Directed by Blake Edwards, Matthew Diamond
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Julie Andrews, Michael Nouri, Tony Roberts, Gregory Jbara, Rachel York, Richard B. Shull
Roles Lyricist
Rating76% 3.8353953.8353953.8353953.8353953.835395
Dans les années 1930 à Paris, Victoria Grant, une chanteuse classique, ne trouve plus aucun contrat pour subsister. Alors qu'elle touche le fond, elle rencontre un homosexuel quinquagénaire, Carroll Todd dit « Toddy », qui imagine de la faire passer pour un homme spécialisé dans les spectacles de travesti. Sous le nom de Victor Grezhinski, elle connaît dès lors un immense succès dans les cabarets parisiens, au point d'attirer l'attention de King Marchand, un producteur de spectacles américain en lien avec la pègre de Chicago, grand amateur de femmes et qui est extrêmement troublé de se sentir attiré par celle qu'il croit être un homme.
Hook
Hook (1991)
, 2h24
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Les fées, Films about disabilities, Children's films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Lisa Wilhoit
Roles Lyricist
Rating67% 3.3999753.3999753.3999753.3999753.399975
Peter Banning is a successful corporate lawyer who spends more time at work than with his wife Moira and children Jack and Maggie. The Bannings fly to London to visit Moira's grandmother, an older Wendy Darling, to celebrate her charity work for orphans, which once included Peter. During the visit, Peter is distracted by phone calls from his office and on one occasion, shouts at his children when they interrupt him, leading Moira to throw his cellphone out of an open window. Later, while Peter, Moira, and Wendy attend a banquet ceremony hosted by Great Ormond Street Hospital, a strange presence abducts Jack and Maggie. Tootles, another of Wendy's orphans who lives at her house, informs Peter that Captain Hook took the children to Neverland. Peter dismisses Tootles' warning and calls the police instead. With no sign of the children anywhere, Wendy informs Peter that he is actually Peter Pan and that he lost his memories of Neverland when he decided to stay in London with Wendy many years ago. Once again, Peter dismisses these claims and waits for the police to find his children.
Home Alone
Home Alone (1990)
, 1h37
Directed by Chris Columbus
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Christmas films, Films about spiders, Children's films
Actors Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara, Roberts Blossom
Roles Lyricist
Rating76% 3.847783.847783.847783.847783.84778
The night before their flight to Paris for a Christmas holiday, the McCallister family gather at the Winnetka, Illinois home of Peter (John Heard) and Kate (Catherine O'Hara) McCallister. Their 8-year-old son, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), is ridiculed by his siblings and cousins. After a fight with his older brother, Buzz (Devin Ratray), Kevin is sent to the third floor of the house, where he wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, a power outage resets the alarm clocks and causes the family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to reach their flight on time, Kevin is left behind and the family is unaware until they are already airborne. Once in Paris, Peter and Kate try to book a flight home, but all the flights are booked for the next two days. The clerks put Kate on standby for any possible seat opening. The rest of the family goes to Peter's brother's home in Paris, and Kevin's siblings and cousins are crushed by empathy for their abuse toward Kevin.
Bullseye!
Bullseye! (1990)
, 1h35
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Lee Patterson, Deborah Moore, Mark Burns
Roles Story
Rating45% 2.2599552.2599552.2599552.2599552.259955
Moore and Caine play dual roles—a pair of small time con-men and a pair of inept nuclear physicists who believe they have invented a limitless supply of energy. The con men use their resemblance to the scientists to con their way into the scientists' safe deposit boxes and steal the formula, but in so doing, they become entangled in a shady world of spies and international intrigue. The film includes a number of cameo appearances, including Jenny Seagrove (Winner's partner at the time) playing two different roles, John Cleese, Patsy Kensit, Alexandra Pigg and Nicholas Courtney. The film also features Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah Moore, in a supporting role.
My Stepmother Is an Alien, 1h45
Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green
Rating54% 2.7027752.7027752.7027752.7027752.702775
Celeste (Kim Basinger) is an alien sent on a secret mission to Earth and Steven Mills (Dan Aykroyd) is a widowed scientist who is working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. An accident causes a disruption of gravity on Celeste's home world (Cosine N to the 8th). She's sent to investigate who could affect gravity and how it was done, believing it was an attack. She's aided by an alien device resembling a tentacle with an eye, which hides in a designer purse to aid Celeste with her encounters on Earth. The Bag is able to create any object, such as diamonds and designer dresses almost instantaneously. Celeste crashes a party hosted by Steven's brother Ron (Jon Lovitz) where she immediately draws attention to herself by making dated references to old TV shows and political slogans under the mistaken belief that it was current (her superiors had just collected the information, which had taken 92 years to get from Earth to her home world).
Babes in Toyland, 2h20
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, Richard Mulligan, Pat Morita, Eileen Brennan, Jill Schoelen
Roles Lyricist
Rating52% 2.604792.604792.604792.604792.60479
Lisa Piper (Drew Barrymore), an eleven-year-old girl from Cincinnati, Ohio, takes care of her siblings and cooks for her family. She has no time for toys, and refuses to be treated as a child. During a blizzard on Christmas Eve, Lisa is transported to Toyland. She arrives just before Mary Contrary (Jill Schoelen) is to be wedded to the unpleasant Barnaby Barnacle (Richard Mulligan), although Mary loves Barnaby's nephew, Jack Nimble (Keanu Reeves). Lisa stops the wedding and, with her new friends, finds out that Barnaby plans to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie (Googy Gress) go to the kindly Toymaster (Pat Morita) for help, but he can only help them if Lisa really believes in toys. Barnaby confronts them and the Toymaster, finally showing his true colors, and steals a flask containing distilled evil that the Toymaster had been collecting, before leaving Lisa and company to be eaten by Trollog, a vulture-like monster with a single enchanted eye that Barnaby uses to spy on his enemies. They escape by blinding Trollog with paint and locking him in a chest, but are captured and imprisoned one by one in Barnaby's hidden fortress.
That's Life!, 1h42
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Julie Andrews, Jack Lemmon, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Robert Knepper, Matt Lattanzi
Roles Lyricist
Rating59% 2.9986152.9986152.9986152.9986152.998615
Harvey Fairchild is a wealthy, Malibu-based architect who is turning 60 and suffering from a form of male menopause. He feels aches and pains, real or imaginary, and seems unhappy with his professional and personal life.
Victor/Victoria, 2h12
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies
Roles Lyricist
Rating75% 3.7969953.7969953.7969953.7969953.796995
Set in 1934 Paris, the film opens with Richard Di Nardo, a young hustler, emerging from the bed of middle-aged Carroll Todd (Robert Preston), aka Toddy; Richard dresses, takes money from Toddy's wallet and leaves Toddy's apartment. Going about his day, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews). After the audition, Labisse drily writes her off, and she responds by sustaining a pitch to shatter his wine glass using resonant frequency. That night, Richard comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome and Toddy incites a brawl by insulting Richard and the women in his group. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club. Walking home, he spots Victoria dining at a restaurant, and she invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying their check, but it escapes and the whole place breaks out in havoc.
Sunday Lovers, 2h5
Directed by Gene Wilder, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Bryan Forbes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Priscilla Barnes
Rating55% 2.766162.766162.766162.766162.76616
L'action se situe dans les pays d'origine des metteurs en scène. Angleterre (Maître en la demeure) : Le chauffeur d'un lord se fait passer pour son patron afin de charmer les hôtesses de l'air qu'il invite dans le château de son maître...
Revenge of the Pink Panther, 1h39
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Andrew Sachs, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Graham Stark
Roles Lyricist
Rating65% 3.298163.298163.298163.298163.29816
Philippe Douvier (Robert Webber), a major businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia drug trading partners of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's aide Guy Algo (Tony Beckley) suggests a show of force with the murder of Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers). Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing him fails; and the subsequent attempt by Chinese martial artist 'Mr. Chong' (an uncredited appearance by the founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau successfully fights him off, believing him to be his (Clouseau's) valet Cato (Burt Kwouk) who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks. That night, Douvier poses as an informant to lure Clouseau into a trap, but the Chief Inspector's car and clothes are stolen by transvestite criminal Claude Russo (Sue Lloyd), who is killed by Douvier's men. Subsequently Douvier and the French public believe Clouseau is dead and, as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's former boss, ex-Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is restored to sanity and is released from the lunatic asylum to perform the investigation.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 1h40
Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Cooking films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson
Roles Lyricist
Rating77% 3.897743.897743.897743.897743.89774
In an unnamed European town, children go to a candy shop after school. Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), whose family is poor, can only stare through the window as the shop owner sings "Candy Man". The newsagent for whom Charlie works after school gives him his weekly pay, which Charlie uses to buy a loaf of bread. On his way home, he passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker (Peter Capell) recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem "The Fairies", and tells Charlie, "Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out." Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother (Diana Sowle) and his four bedridden grandparents. After he tells Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) about the tinker, Joe tells him that Wonka locked the factory because his arch-rival, Mr. Slugworth, and other candy makers sent in spies disguised as employees to steal Wonka's recipes. Wonka disappeared, but three years later began selling more candy; the origin of Wonka's labour force is a mystery.
Scrooge
Scrooge (1970)
, 2h
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Laurence Naismith
Roles Lyricist
Rating74% 3.7461753.7461753.7461753.7461753.746175
Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is a cold-hearted and greedy old miser whose only concern is money and profit and hates everything to do with Christmas. After Scrooge scares off a group of boys who were singing a carol outside his door, his nephew Fred (Michael Medwin) arrives to invite him to Christmas dinner with his wife and friends. Scrooge, however, refuses. After Fred leaves, Scrooge gives his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the next day off as it is Christmas, but he expects him back all the earlier the next morning. Bob meets two of his children, including Tiny Tim (Richard Beaumont), in the streets, and they buy the food for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge, meanwhile, is surveyed by two other men (Derek Francis and Roy Kinnear) for a donation for the poor but Scrooge refuses to support the prisons and workhouses and even says "if they rather die, then they better do it and decrease the surplus population." On his way home, Scrooge meets some of his clients, including Tom Jenkins (Anton Rogers), and reminds them the debts they owe him. In a running gag, Scrooge is stalked and being made fun of by the same street urchins seen at the start of the film, calling him "Father Christmas.
Doctor Dolittle, 2h32
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about birds, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Holder, Muriel Landers
Rating60% 3.049983.049983.049983.049983.04998
In early Victorian England, Matthew Mugg (Anthony Newley) takes his young friend Tommy Stubbins (William Dix) to visit eccentric Doctor John Dolittle (Rex Harrison). Dolittle, a former physician, lives with an extended menagerie, including a chimpanzee named Chee-Chee (Cheeta), a dog named Jip, and a talking parrot named Polynesia (the uncredited voice of Ginny Tyler). Dolittle claims that he can talk to animals. In a flashback, he explains that he kept so many animals in his home that they created havoc with his human patients, who took their medical needs elsewhere. His sister, who served as his housekeeper, demanded that he dispose of the animals or she would leave; he chose the animals. Polynesia taught him that different animal species can talk to each other, prompting Dolittle to study animal languages so that he could become an animal doctor.