Lewis Gilbert

Infobox actor


name = Lewis Gilbert
birthdate = birth date and age|1920|3|6
location = London, England
baftaawards = Best Film
1983 "Educating Rita"

Lewis Gilbert CBE (born March 6, 1920) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter, born in London. After a career as a child actor in films in the 1920s and 1930s, he began shooting documentary films for the Royal Air Force during World War II. Gilbert made his name in the 1950s with a series of successful films as director, and often writer and producer as well. These were often based on true stories from World War II. Examples include "Reach for the Sky" (1956) (based on the life of air ace Douglas Bader), "Carve Her Name with Pride" (1958) (the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo) and "Sink the Bismarck!" (1960).

In 1966 Gilbert directed "Alfie" starring Michael Caine. Gilbert said the film was only made because the low budget was "the sort of money Paramount executives normally spend on cigar bills". The film was nominated for five Academy Awards including best picture. Gilbert was nominated for a Golden Globe for best director, and the film was remade in 2004 with Jude Law.

In 1967, Gilbert was chosen to direct Lionel Bart's musical of "Oliver!" but had to pull out and Carol Reed took over.

After some reluctance, Gilbert was persuaded by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli to direct the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice" in 1967. Gilbert would return to the series to make two more films, "The Spy Who Loved Me" in 1977 and "Moonraker" in 1979. Despite being known for character dramas, Gilbert directed three of the most epic and expansive installments of the Bond series.

In the 1980s he returned to more small-scale dramas with successful film versions of Willy Russell's plays "Educating Rita" (1983) and "Shirley Valentine" (1989).

Director

Feature films

*"Sailors Do Care" (1944)
*"The Ten Year Plan" (1945)
*"Under One Roof" (1946)
*"Arctic Harvest" (1946)
*"The Little Ballerina" (1948)
*"Once a Sinner" (1950)
*"There Is Another Sun" (1951)
*"The Scarlet Thread" (1951)
*"Cosh Boy" (1952)
*"Emergency Call" (1952)
*"Time Gentlemen Please!" (1952)
*"Johnny on the Run" (1953)
*"Albert R.N." (1953)
*"The Good Die Young" (1954)
*"The Sea Shall Not Have Them" (1954)
*"Cast a Dark Shadow" (1955)
*"Reach for the Sky" (1956)
*"The Admirable Crichton" (1957)
*"Carve Her Name with Pride" (1958)
*"A Cry from the Streets" (1958)
*"Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959)
*"Light Up the Sky!" (1960)
*"Sink the Bismarck!" (1960)
*"The Greengage Summer" (1961)
*"H.M.S. Defiant" (1962)
*"The 7th Dawn" (1964)
*"Alfie" (1966)
*"You Only Live Twice" (1967)
*"The Adventurers" (1970)
*"Friends" (1971)
*"Paul and Michelle" (1974)
*"Operation Daybreak" (1975)
*"Seven Nights in Japan" (1976)
*"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
*"Moonraker" (1979)
*"Educating Rita" (1983)
*"Not Quite Paradise" (1986)
*"Shirley Valentine" (1989)
*"Stepping Out" (1991)
*"Haunted" (1995)
*"Before You Go" (2002)

External links

*imdb name|id=0318150|name=Lewis Gilbert
* [http://www.lewisgilbert.info/ www.lewisgilbert.info]

succession box
title=James Bond film director
years=1967
before=Terence Young
1965
after=Peter Hunt
1969succession box
title=James Bond film director
years=1977-1979
before=Guy Hamilton
1971-1974
after=John Glen
1981-1989

Persondata
NAME= Gilbert, Lewis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Film director
DATE OF BIRTH= 1920-3-6
PLACE OF BIRTH= London, England
DATE OF DEATH=
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