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Sidney Gilliat

Highest Rated: 98% The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Lowest Rated: 54% Jamaica Inn (1939)

Birthday: Feb 15, 1908

Birthplace: Edgeley, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK

Began his career writing intertitles for silent films, graduating to screenplays in the 1930s before eventually turning to directing. Working often with Frank Launder, Gilliat made a series of outstanding British comedies and suspense pictures from the mid-30s into the 1960s; among the team's screenwriting credits are "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and "Night Train to Munich" (1940). Launder and Gilliat became known for thrillers with a comic element, such as "I See a Dark Stranger" (1946), "Green For Danger" (1946) and "State Secret" (1950). "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954) is one of their best-known outright comedies. Brother of producer Leslie Gilliat.

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Highest rated movies

98% 88% The Lady Vanishes
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89% 72% Night Train to Munich
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61% Only Two Can Play
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80% 76% The Adventuress
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73% 84% Green for Danger
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67% 68% The Belles of St. Trinian's
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60% 58% Kipps
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54% 35% Jamaica Inn
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25% Soldiers Three
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A Gentleman of Paris
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 38% Endless Night Director - 1972
No Score Yet 58% The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery Director,
Producer 		- 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Joey Boy Producer - 1965
No Score Yet 61% Only Two Can Play Director - 1962
No Score Yet 40% The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's Producer,
Writer 		- 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Left, Right and Center Director - 1959
No Score Yet 70% She Played with Fire Director - 1958
No Score Yet 68% The Smallest Show on Earth Producer - 1957
No Score Yet 81% The Green Man Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1957
No Score Yet 80% The Constant Husband Director - 1955
67% 68% The Belles of St. Trinian's Screenwriter - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Gilbert and Sullivan Director - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Folly to Be Wise Producer - 1952
No Score Yet 25% Soldiers Three Screenwriter - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet State Secret Director - 1950
No Score Yet 82% The Happiest Days of Your Life Producer - 1950
No Score Yet 44% The Blue Lagoon Producer - 1949
No Score Yet 20% Dulcimer Street Producer,
Director,
Writer 		- 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Captain Boycott Producer - 1947
80% 76% The Adventuress Producer - 1946
73% 84% Green for Danger Director,
Producer 		- 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Notorious Gentleman Director - 1945
No Score Yet 44% Waterloo Road Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1945
No Score Yet 68% Millions Like Us Director,
Writer 		- 1943
60% 58% Kipps Writer - 1941
89% 72% Night Train to Munich Writer - 1940
54% 35% Jamaica Inn Screenwriter,
Writer 		- 1939
No Score Yet 89% Ask a Policeman Writer - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Phantom Strikes Screenwriter - 1938
98% 88% The Lady Vanishes Screenwriter - 1938
No Score Yet 53% The Man Who Lived Again Writer - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Orders Is Orders Screenwriter - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Gentleman of Paris Screenwriter - 1931