John Paddy Carstairs

John Paddy Carstairs (b. John Keys, 1910, London - d. November 12 1970, London) was a British film director (1933-62) and television director (1962-64), usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter.

He directed 37 films in total. He had a long association with the character of Simon Templar (the character's creator, Leslie Charteris, dedicated the 1963 book, "The Saint in the Sun" to Carstairs).

Aside from directing the 1939 "Saint" film, "The Saint in London", he also directed two episodes of "The Saint" in the 1960s, making him the only individual (other than Charteris himself) to be connected to both the Hollywood film and British series of "The Saint".

His autobiographies include:
*"Honest Injun" (1942)
*"Hadn't We the Gaiety" (1945)
*"Kaleidoscope and a Jaundiced Eye" (1946)

elected filmography

* "The Saint in London" (1939)
* "Spare a Copper" (1940)
* "He Found a Star" (1940)
* "Spare a Copper" (1941)
* "Dancing with Crime" (1946)
* "Sleeping Car to Trieste" (1948)
* "The Chiltern Hundreds" (1949)
* "Talk of a Million" (1951)
* "Made in Heaven" (1952)
* "Trouble in Store" (1953)
* "Up to His Neck" (1954)
* "Man of the Moment" (1955)
* "Up in the World" (1956)
* "Just My Luck" (1957)
* "The Square Peg" (1958)
* "Tommy the Toreador" (1959)
* "Sands of the Desert" (1960)
* "Weekend with Lulu" (1961)

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