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Bryan Forbes

Highest Rated: 100% The World in His Arms (1952)

Lowest Rated: 11% The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)

Birthday: Jul 22, 1926

Birthplace: Stratford, London, England, UK

The multi-talented London-born Bryan Forbes began his career as an actor, establishing himself as a competent supporting player on both stage and screen, but it was as a writer that he finally promoted himself through the ranks. A short story writer and journalist, he received his first screenwriting credit on Jose Ferrer's "The Cockleshell Heroes" (1955), although he previously had made uncredited contributions to "The Black Knight" (1954) and "An Alligator Named Daisy" (also 1955). With Richard Attenborough, Forbes formed the production company Beaver Films in 1959, and their initial offering was "The Angry Silence" (1960), for which Forbes won a British Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay. He then got his first opportunity to direct when he replaced Guy Green at the helm of Beaver Films' "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961) and delivered a poignant, believable story of childhood innocence, starring Haley Mills as one of three children who discover a fugitive (Alan Bates) and believe him to be Christ.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 55% The World in His Arms
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100% 84% King Rat
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92% 91% Whistle Down the Wind
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88% 69% The Wrong Box
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83% 84% The League of Gentlemen
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82% 83% Seance on a Wet Afternoon
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61% Only Two Can Play
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80% 79% The Angry Silence
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80% 77% Hopscotch
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80% 61% Quatermass II
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Bryan Forbes THE ANGRY SILENCE, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Pier Angeli, 1960 THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, Katharine Hepburn, Bryan Forbes, director, 1969 THE SMALL BACK ROOM, Michael Gough, Bryan Forbes, David Farrar, 1949 AN INSPECTOR CALLS, Alastair Sim, Bryan Forbes, Brian Worth, 1954 THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, 1959 ENEMY FROM SPACE (QUATERMASS II), Brian Donlevy, Bryan Forbes, 1957 SEA DEVILS, from left, Bryan Forbes, Rock Hudson, 1953 INTERNATIONAL VELVET, Tatum O'Neal, Bryan Forbes, 1978, (c) MGM THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, (l to r) Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, Jack Hawkins (with back to camera), Kieran Moore, Norman Bird, Terence Alexander, 1959 View more photos

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Knight Squad 2014 Nicholi Actor Chaplin 61% 81% 1992 Screenwriter The Endless Game 1990 Director The Naked Face 17% 1985 Director, Screenwriter Better Late Than Never 1982 Director, Screenwriter Sunday Lovers 1981 Director Hopscotch 80% 77% 1980 Screenwriter Jessie 1980 Director International Velvet 71% 1978 Director, Producer The Slipper and the Rose 90% 1976 Director The Stepford Wives 67% 65% 1975 Director I Am a Dancer 1972 Director Long Ago Tomorrow 92% 1971 Director Eyewitness 25% 1970 Executive Producer The Madwoman of Chaillot 11% 48% 1969 Director Deadfall 37% 1968 Director, Writer The Whisperers 67% 58% 1967 Director The Wrong Box 88% 69% 1966 Director, Producer King Rat 100% 84% 1965 Director, Screenwriter Seance on a Wet Afternoon 82% 83% 1964 Director, Producer, Screenwriter Of Human Bondage 50% 52% 1964 Director, Screenwriter The L-Shaped Room 67% 83% 1963 Director Only Two Can Play 61% 1962 Writer Whistle Down the Wind 92% 91% 1962 Director The Angry Silence 80% 79% 1960 Screenwriter, Producer
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