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Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert is a British film director born on 6th of March, 1920 in London. His career began when he was only a child as an actor in films of the 1920s, aftewards he began shooting documentary films for the Royal Air Force during the World War II.
In the 1950s he got a successful career as director and often writer and producer. This documentaries were based on the stories from World War II as 'Reach for the Sky' 1956 and ' Carve Her Name With Pride' 1958 and 'Sink the Bismarck' 1960.
In 1966 Gilbert directed ' Alfie' starring Michael Caine. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards including the best picture, Gilbert was nominated for the 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.
Gilbert is very well known for several installment of the James Bond series as ' The Spy Who Loved Me' in 1977 and ' Moonraker' in 1979.
In the 1980s returned in films as ' Educating Rita' 1983 and ' Shirley Valentine' 1989.
Lewis Gilbert was awarded the Fellowship of the British Film Institute in 2001.
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Before You Go
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Julie Walters, John Hannah, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Julie Walters, Joanne Whalley and Victoria Hamilton play three sisters who are reunited for the funeral of their mother. Predictably this reunion sees their lifelong problems, grudges and secrets come to the fore in amongst the grief before the inevitable forgiveness.
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Haunted
(1995)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed. But soon after arriving ..read more »
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Shirley Valentine
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Bernard Hill
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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An unpredictable, wisecracking, bored English housewife accepts an invitation from a friend to a vacation in Greece and rediscovers her zest for life and love.
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Educating Rita
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Julie Walters, Michael Caine, Malcolm Douglas
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her ..read more »
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Moonraker
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly ..read more »
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Moonraker - BLU-RAY Version
(1979)
Starring: Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly ..read more »
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The Spy Who Loved Me
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, the 10th film in the James Bond series, ventures not only into the depths of the ocean but into the deep topic of betrayal and morality as well, placing it among the boldest of the 007 films. James Bond (Roger Moore) is coupled with Russian agent Anya 'Triple-X' Amasova (..read more »
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Seven Nights In Japan
(1976)
Starring: Michael York, Hidemi Aoki, Peter Jones
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In the romantic drama Seven Nights in Japan, Michael York plays Prince George, the fictional heir to the British throne, a British navy officer. On shore leave in Japan, he meets Somi, a Japanese tour bus guide (Hidemi Aoki), and they have a brief romance. Attempts are made on the prince's life.
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The Adventurers
(1970)
Starring: Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country -a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in ..read more »
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You Only Live Twice
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Lois Maxwell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. With the Soviet Union and the United States blaming each other for mysteriously missing space capsules, nuclear warfare between the two superpowers seems imminent. However, Her Majesty's Secret Service suspects the rockets are being held in ..read more »
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Alfie
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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In ALFIE, Michael Caine stars as the title character, a guiltless London lothario whose only pleasure in life seems to be a good time--he has a date with a different woman for each day of the week. After accidentally impregnating his live-in girlfriend, Gilda (Julia Foster), Alfie takes a vacation ..read more »
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H.M.S. Defiant
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Alec Guinness must battle a mutinous crew and Napoleon's fleet in the rousing, historical adventure H.M.S Defiant. As commander of the British warship H.M.S. Defiant, the humane Crawford (Guinness) strives to maintain order throughout the ship against the ceaseless brutality of sadistic first mate ..read more »
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Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna), a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France...
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as ..read more »
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Time Gentlemen Please
on DVD
Starring: Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Raymond Lovell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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The PM is planning a celebration visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe. However, local lay-about Dan Dance refuses to work, so he's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain, yet very funny future
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Sink The Bismarck!
on DVD
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter
Director: Lewis Gilbert, Dick Powell
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The story of one of World War II's most furious sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi documentary style movie. In the spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for ..read more »
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Shirley Valentine
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(1989)
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Run time: 108 minutes
In the role that won her Broadway's acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing Shirley Valentine, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it's never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on ..read more »
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