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Jack Clayton
Highest Rated: 100% Room at the Top (1959)
Lowest Rated: 39% The Great Gatsby (1974)
Birthday: Mar 1, 1921
Birthplace: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Solid, professional craftsman who from 1935 worked his way up from third assistant director to editor with Alexander Korda's London Films before directing the medium-length film, "The Bespoke Overcoat" (1955), which won a short-subject Oscar and a prize at the Venice Film Festival. Clayton then served as producer on several routine pictures before directing his first feature, the powerful, class-conscious drama, "Room at the Top" (1958), which inaugurated a new kind of kitchen-sink realism and frank sensuality in the British cinema.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Memento Mori | Director | - | 1992 |
| 100% | 77% | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Director | $82.7K | 1987 |
| 61% | 64% | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Director | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Summerdog | Director | - | 1977 |
| 39% | 47% | The Great Gatsby | Director | - | 1974 |
| 60% | 77% | Our Mother's House |
Director, Producer |
- | 1967 |
| 67% | 72% | The Pumpkin Eater | Director | - | 1964 |
| 95% | 86% | The Innocents |
Director, Producer |
- | 1961 |
| 100% | 81% | Room at the Top | Director | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | The Whole Truth | Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dry Rot | Producer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Bespoke Overcoat |
Director, Producer |
- | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Three Men in a Boat | Producer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | I Am a Camera | Producer | - | 1955 |
| 100% | 81% | The Thief of Bagdad | Assistant Director | - | 1940 |