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Bryan Forbes
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Biography
Bryan Forbes (22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist.
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The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
The Hypnotic Gaze
From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.
8 films
The Heist Film Slips Its Own Cuffs
Seven robberies that treat the job as a pretext: for politics, for grief, for a formal joke. The loot matters less than what the filmmakers smuggle out alongsid...
7 films
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A Shot in the Dark
1964 · Camp Attendant
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Cohn
The League of Gentlemen
1960 · Porthill
I Was Monty's Double
1958 · Butterfield
The Key
1958 · Weaver
Quatermass 2
1957 · Marsh
An Inspector Calls
1954 · Eric Birling
The Million Pound Note
1954 · Todd
The Small Back Room
1949 · Peterson
