Charles Crichton

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Charles Crichton
Born	Charles Ainslie Crichton (1910-08-06)6 August 1910 Wallasey, Merseyside, England
Died	14 September 1999(1999-09-14) (aged 89) South Kensington, London, England
Occupation	film director film editor
Years active	1935 - 1988

Charles Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and editor. Born in Wallasey, Merseyside, he became best known for directing many comedies produced at Ealing Studios and had a 40-year career editing and directing many films and television programmes.^[1] Crichton gained two Academy Award nominations for A Fish Called Wanda, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Crichton died in South Kensington, London aged 89.

Filmography (director)

For Those in Peril (1944)
Dead of Night (1945) (co-director)
Painted Boats (1945)
Hue and Cry (1947)
Against the Wind (1948)
Another Shore (1948)
Train of Events (1949)
Dance Hall (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Hunted (1952)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

The Love Lottery (1954)
The Divided Heart (1954)
Man in the Sky (1957)
Law and Disorder (1958)
Floods of Fear (1959)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
The Third Secret (1964)
He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) (for which Crichton also co-wrote the original story)

Television

References

↑ Kemp, Philip (2000). "Charles Crichton". In Pendergast, Tom; Pendergast, Sara. International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-449-8.

External links

Charles Crichton at the Internet Movie Database
BECTU interview of Crichton conducted by Sid Cole and Alan Lawton (1987) reproduced on the BFI screenonline website
Charles Crichton at Find a Grave

The films of Charles Crichton

For Those in Peril (1944)
Dead of Night (segment) (1945)
Painted Boats (1945)
Hue and Cry (1947)
Against the Wind (1948)
Another Shore (1948)
Train of Events (segment) (1949)
Dance Hall (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Hunted (1952)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
The Love Lottery (1954)
The Divided Heart (1954)
Man in the Sky (1957)
Law and Disorder (1958)
Floods of Fear (1959)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
The Third Secret (1964)
He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Space: 1999

Characters

Vehicles

Episodes

Series 1	"Breakaway" "Matter of Life and Death" "Ring Around the Moon" "Earthbound" "Another Time, Another Place" "Missing Link" "Force of Life" "The Last Sunset" "Voyager's Return" "Collision Course" "The Full Circle" "War Games" "The Last Enemy" "The Troubled Spirit" "The Infernal Machine" "Mission of the Darians" "Dragon's Domain" "The Testament of Arkadia"

Series 2	"The Metamorph" "One Moment of Humanity" "All That Glisters" "Journey to Where" "The Mark of Archanon" "Brian the Brain" "New Adam, New Eve" "Catacombs of the Moon" "Seed of Destruction" "The Beta Cloud" The Bringers of Wonder: Part 1 / Part 2 "The Lambda Factor" "The Seance Spectre" "Devil's Planet" "The Dorcons"

Production

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Name	Crichton, Charles
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Date of birth	6 August 1910
Place of birth	Wallasey, Merseyside, England
Date of death	14 September 1999
Place of death	South Kensington, London, England