Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat? He also directed television movies and commercials through the mid-1990s.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Release Date1984-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count401
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Release Date1951-11-30
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count354
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
Release Date1960-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count21
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
Release Date1964-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
Release Date1952-02-25
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count39
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Release Date1976-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count20
An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to survive against a powerful demon and an evil cult.
Release Date1977-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
Release Date1974-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Release Date1950-02-16
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count33
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.
Release Date1986-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count96
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
Release Date1949-01-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count55
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
Release Date1962-05-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Release Date1982-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Release Date1982-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count47
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has fallen out of love with his argumentative wife, Ellen. In a misguided effort to solve both of their problems, he introduces Ellen to Harry, hoping the two will fall in love.
Release Date1967-07-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Release Date1953-05-28
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count50
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
Release Date1984-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Release Date1978-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.
Release Date1969-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Release Date1986-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count50
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
Release Date1961-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count6
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!
Release Date1964-03-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Release Date1952-09-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count6
Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy criminal organisation
Release Date1977-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
Release Date1961-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Release Date1954-01-07
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count74
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
Release Date1955-07-21
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count15
Release Date1992-02-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
Release Date1994-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
Release Date1957-02-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
Release Date1951-04-13
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count119
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Release Date1965-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count163
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
Release Date1988-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
Release Date1980-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count84
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
Release Date1954-09-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count64
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden love, revenge, family rivalry, and magic are all prominent themes.
Release Date1985-04-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
Release Date1958-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
Release Date1981-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count31
Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to get back "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"
Release Date1990-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Release Date1944-06-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count39
Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula, and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
Release Date1968-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count18
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Release Date1978-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?
Release Date1966-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Release Date1992-06-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
Release Date1960-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
