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Roy Boulting is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor British born on 21 november 1913

Roy Boulting

Roy Boulting
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 november 1913
Death 5 november 2001 (at 87 years) at Eynsham (United-kingdom)

Roy Boulting, né le 21 novembre 1913 à Bray, dans le Berkshire (Royaume-Uni) et mort le 5 novembre 2001 à Eynsham, dans l'Oxfordshire (Royaume-Uni), est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur britannique, connu pour avoir, conjointement avec son frère jumeau John Boulting, produit une série de comédies satiriques dans les années 1950 et 1960.

Biography

L'œuvre des deux frères est indissociable. Ils exerçaient ensemble les fonctions de producteur et de réalisateur quand les circonstances l’imposaient et, souvent, ils passaient d’une casquette à l'autre selon le type de film sur lequel ils travaillaient, bien qu'ils produisissent aussi des films séparément. Tous deux participèrent aussi à l’écriture des scénarios de leurs films.

Ils commencèrent leur carrière avec des drames sérieux, denses, économiques, tels que Ultimatum (Seven Days to Noon, 1950) et Le Gang des tueurs (Brighton Rock), une adaptation de Graham Greene — deux films avec Roy comme producteur et John comme réalisateur.

Par la suite, ils se firent une réputation en réalisant une série de comédies satiriques, aujourd’hui tenues pour des classiques du cinéma britannique ; ce sont Ce sacré z'héros (Private's Progress, 1956), Sept Jours de malheur (Lucky Jim, 1957) et Après moi le déluge (I'm All Right Jack, 1959), trois films pour lesquels ils occupaient les mêmes fonctions qu’indiquées plus haut, et au scénario desquels John participait habituellement. Ces comédies avaient souvent pour interprètes principaux Ian Carmichael, principalement, mais aussi Richard Attenborough et Terry-Thomas, noms auxquels venaient parfois s'ajouter ceux de Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl et Miles Malleson.

Après moi le déluge a également pour vedette Peter Sellers ; ce film, d'ailleurs, propulsa la carrière du comédien, en lui faisant obtenir le Prix du meilleur acteur de la BAFTA. Sellers apparut par la suite également dans d’autres films des frères Boulting.

En 1966, Chaque chose en son temps (The Family Way) devait susciter une légère controverse, à cause de son sujet : il avait pour protagonistes un couple de jeunes mariés et leurs familles terre-à-terre. C'est sur le tournage du film que Roy rencontra Hayley Mills, qu'il devait épouser en 1971 ; ensemble ils eurent un fils, Crispian Mills. Roy et Hayley devaient cependant se séparer en 1977.

Pendant les années 1980, Roy Boulting travailla pour la télévision, en réalisant un épisode de la série Miss Marple, la série populaire de la BBC…


Vie privée
Roy Boulting est le fils d’Arthur Boulting et Rose Bennet.

Roy Boulting est décédé le 5 novembre 2001, plus d’une dizaine d’années après son jumeau. Ils avaient un frère aîné, Sydney Boulting, qui est devenu acteur et producteur pour le théâtre, connu sous le nom de Peter Cotes .

Best films

Desert Victory (1943)
(Director)

Usually with

John Boulting
John Boulting
(30 films)
Thorley Walters
Thorley Walters
(13 films)
Marianne Stone
Marianne Stone
(11 films)
Basil Dignam
Basil Dignam
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Roy Boulting (33 films)

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Director

The Moving Finger
Directed by Roy Boulting
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Sabina Franklyn, Richard Pearson, Hilary Mason, Gerald Sim
Rating74% 3.7449753.7449753.7449753.7449753.744975
Le notaire, le médecin, la femme du pasteur...tout le monde y passe. Des lettres anonymes sèment l'inquiétude et la zizanie surtout lorsqu'elles poussent au suicide une dame des plus respectables. Mais qui est donc le corbeau de Lymston ? Seule Miss Marple peut élucider cette affaire...
Soft Beds, Hard Battles, 1h31
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand, Jenny Hanley, Vernon Dobtcheff
Rating52% 2.6041152.6041152.6041152.6041152.604115
Set in Nazi-occupied France, the story follows Major Robinson of the British Army. Installing himself at a Parisian brothel, he assists the French resistance and works with Madame Grenier and her girls who find themselves eliminating high ranking German officers (using ingenious rigged beds and killer flatulence pills) right under the nose of the Gestapo.
There's a Girl in My Soup, 1h35
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors, Tony Britton, Gabrielle Drake, Nicky Henson
Rating57% 2.850512.850512.850512.850512.85051
Sellers appears as Robert Danvers, a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile cooking show. He meets Hawn's character, a no-nonsense American hippie living with an English rock musician in London, and, to everyone's surprise, falls for her.
Twisted Nerve, 1h58
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Hayley Mills, Russell Napier, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Phyllis Calvert
Rating69% 3.4940553.4940553.4940553.4940553.494055
The film opens with Martin playing catch with his younger brother Pete, who has learning difficulties and lives in a segregated school in London. Martin is the only remaining figure Pete's family life; their father died years ago and their mother has a new life with a new husband. Martin expresses concern for his brother's well-being to the school's physician, who is comfortable with Pete's progress.
The Family Way, 1h55
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes, Murray Head, Avril Angers
Rating72% 3.6405453.6405453.6405453.6405453.640545
Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to much well-meaning but vulgar ribaldry.
Heavens Above!, 1h58
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael, Brock Peters
Rating66% 3.3449453.3449453.3449453.3449453.344945
The plot features Sellers as a naive but caring prison chaplain accidentally assigned as vicar to a small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of Ian Carmichael's upper class cleric, with whom he shares a name. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the locals, whose assertions that they are good, Christian people are in Smallwood's view belied by their behaviour and ideas. He creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman (Brock Peters) as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading local landowner Lady Despard (Isabel Jeans) to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. However, all his good works lead to trouble.
A French Mistress, 1h38
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors James Robertson Justice, Cecil Parker, Agnès Laurent, Ian Bannen, Agnès Laurent, Michael Crawford
Rating59% 2.9543452.9543452.9543452.9543452.954345
A young French woman, Madaleine Lafarge (Laurent), is appointed as a French teacher at a rather old-fashioned English public school which is not used to women teachers. She causes a stir and complications ensue.
I'm All Right Jack, 1h45
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas
Rating70% 3.5445953.5445953.5445953.5445953.544595
After leaving the army and returning to university, newly graduated upper-class Stanley Windrush
Carlton-Browne of the F.O., 1h28
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Raymond Huntley
Rating61% 3.09863.09863.09863.09863.0986
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island Gaillardia during the seventeenth century, the feud between two scions of its royal house and Britain's granting the island self-rule in 1916. However, when independence was granted, the Foreign Office (F.O.) failed to recall its ambassador, who is still there forty years later. He writes a letter to the F.O. informing them of Russian moves to annex the island's mineral wealth.
Brothers in Law, 1h34
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Leslie Phillips, Miles Malleson
Rating63% 3.197323.197323.197323.197323.19732
Roger Thursby est un avocat débutant, plein d’idéaux, mais ses collègues avocats le trouvent un peu trop enthousiaste à leur goût…
Private's Progress, 1h35
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier, Miles Malleson
Rating63% 3.196173.196173.196173.196173.19617
During World War II, the young undergraduate Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael), is conscripted into the British Army. Unlike his friend Egan (Peter Jones), Windrush is a most reluctant soldier and struggles through basic training at Gravestone Barracks. Failing his officer selection board, he is posted to a holding unit, under the command of Major Hitchcock (Terry-Thomas). Most of the soldiers there are malingerers and drop-outs.