
Richard Wattis
Oyuncu · 1912 – 1975 · Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, UK
Richard Cameron Wattis (25 February 1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor. After leaving the family business, Wattis became an actor. His debut was with Croydon Repertory Theatre, and he made many stage appearances in the West End in London. His first appearance in a film was A Yank at Oxford (1938), but war service interrupted his career as an actor. He served as a second lieutenant in the Small Arms Section of Special Operations Executive at Station VI during World War II (James Bond author, Ian Fleming worked in the same section). He is best known for his appearances, wearing his thick-rimmed round spectacles, in British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, often as a "Man from the Ministry" or similar character. He was also involved as the secretary to Lord Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Such appearances included the St Trinian's films (The Belles of St Trinian's, Blue Murder at St Trinian's, and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery) as Manton Bassett, a civil servant who was the Deputy Director of Schools in the Ministry of Education, where he was often seen frowning and expressing indignation at the outrageous behaviour of other characters. To American audiences, Wattis is probably best known for his performance as the British civil servant Northbrook in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in Games That Lovers Play. Wattis's other films included Hobson's Choice, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Carry On Spying, The Colditz Story, Dentist on the Job, Very Important Person, The Happiest Days of Your Life, and The Longest Day. He also appeared on television, including a long-running role in Sykes, and appearances in Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Goodies, Hancock's Half Hour, and Father, Dear Father. From 1957 to 1958, he appeared as Peter Jamison in three episodes of the American sitcom Dick and the Duchess.
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Film5.2MaceraAksiyonKüresel istikrarı sabotaj etmeye başlayan Smersh, 11'den fazla ajanın kaybolması ve sorunların daha kötüye gitmesi yanında en iyi ajanları 007 emekliliğine doğru ciddi bir şekilde güç kaybetmektedir. KGB'nin ve CIA'nın başındakilerle birlikte olan M'in sadece bir tek umudu vardır. Bay James Bond'u emeklilikten geri getirip işe el koymasını sağlamak. Ordu patlayıcıları ile donanımlı bayan ajanlar, Baccarat oynamayı bilen bir sihirbaz ve sinirli megalomanı karşısında bulan Bond'un zekice bir planı harekete sokması gerekmektedir. Baccarat ustası Evelyn Tremble komplonun kalbine gönderilmek için seçilir. Ancak ilk önce James Bond'un yetiştirme okuluna katılmak zorundadır. Müthiş karışıklık içerisinde sürprizlerle dolu macera başlar.
Casino Royale
1967 · 863 votes
Film7.6SavaşDram2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Amerikalılar ve Fransızların beraber düzenledikleri Normandiya çıkarmasının yapıldığı gün olan D-Day'de geçiyor film. Bir düzine karakter eşliğinde müttefik kuvvetlerin yaşadığı en uzun günün hikayesi. Filmin en büyük özelliği birbirinden ünlü pek çok oyuncunun yer alması...
Film7.4GerilimGizemJames Stewart ve Dorıs Day, korku sinemasının tartışmasız üstadı Hitchcock'un bu muhteşem geriliminde özgün ve dramatik bir performans sergiliyorlar. Stewart ve Day, Fas'ta oğulları Hank ile tatil yapan masum Amerikalılar Ben ve Jo McKenna'yı oynuyorlar. Marakeş pazarında bir Fransız ajanı Ben'in kollarında öldüğünde, çift oğullarının kaçırıldığını ve ingiltere'ye götürüldüğünü öğreniyor. Kime güveneceklerini bilmez halde olan McKenna ailesi uluslararası casusluk, suikastçilik ve terörle karşı karşıya kalır. Gerçeğe yaklaştıkça tüm hayatları değisecektir ve film meshur Albert Meydanı'nda gerilim dolu bir doruğa ulaşacaktır.
Film6.8AileMaceraBirbirinden büyüleyici müziklerle bezenmiş olan filmde hikâye bir arabanın etrafında döner. Sıra dışı bilim adamı Caractacus bir araba icat etmiştir: Bu arabanın en etkileyici özelliği kendi başına hareket edebilmesidir. Kötü niyetli Baron Bomburst, gerektiğinde uçan ve yüzen bu arabaya göz dikince macera başlar.
Film7.2KomediTwo young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 · 126 votes
Film7.2GizemGerilimİngiltere'ye yeni dönen bir kadın, daha ilk günün arifesinde küçük kızını kaybeder. arama tarama çalışmaları fayda vermeyince olaya polis de dahil olur. ancak sorun şudur ki kimse kadının yanında bir kız çocuğu görmemiştir. böylece insanların aklında yavaş yavaş böyle bir kız çocuğu gerçekten var mıydı şüphesi uyanmaya başlar... Hem Otto Preminger hem de eleştirmenler tarafından önemsiz bir film olarak kabul edilmiştir. Ama bir kült klasiği olmayı başarmıştır.
Film7.0GerilimSavaşThe true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
The Man Who Never Was
1956 · 96 votes
Film7.6KomediSuçChalfont Dükü'nün küçük kızı, meteliksiz bir İtalyan şarkıcıyla kaçınca, ailesi onu reddeder. Kadın oğlu Louis'ye soylu atalarını anlatır ama, ailesi her türlü yardımı reddettiği için Louis bir kumaşçı dükkânında çalışmak zorunda kalır. D'Ascoyne ailesinin, annesiyle olan akrabalıklarını inatla kabul etmemesinden incinen Louis, kendisi ile aile unvanı arasındaki her türlü engeli ortadan kaldırarak hakkı olanı elde etmeye karar verir. Önce Henley'deki pis bir hafta sonunda en iğrenç kuzenini katleder, sonra da amatör fotoğrafçı olan bir başka kuzenini havaya uçurur. Din adamı olan bir amca zehirlenir; kadınlara oy hakkı verilmesi için mücadele eden bir hala balonunda vurulup düşürülür; asker bir amca en ünlü seferini anlatırken tuzağa düşürülür; ve denizci bir amca, bir çarpışmanın ardından teknesiyle birlikte denizin dibini boylar. Bu durum Louis'yi Chalfont ünvanının tek varisi yapar,
Film6.1DramWealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
The V.I.P.s
1963 · 68 votes
Film6.4KomediRomantikOlmayan bir Balkan ülkesinin prensi ile Amerikalı bir şov kızının türlü yanlış anlaşılmalara gebe ilişkisini yansıtan keyifli bir romantik komedi.
Film6.8SavaşDramAll her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to send herself to a poor, remote village. There, she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as 'foot inspector', advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed-race Captain Lin Nan. Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958 · 87 votes
Film5.0KomediYoung Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974 · 39 votes
Film5.7KomediCaptain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
The Iron Petticoat
1956 · 24 votes
Film7.4KomediDramA widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Hobson's Choice
1954 · 172 votes
Film6.7DramSavaşAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Operation Crossbow
1965 · 125 votes
Film6.2DramSavaşTwo rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959 · 34 votes
Film6.8SavaşDramThe Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
The Colditz Story
1955 · 62 votes
Film7.5MüzikKomediThe suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household – including the maid – fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting not the singer but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
As Long as They're Happy
1955 · 4 votes
Film5.9KomediMarjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951 · 10 votes
Film6.2MaceraKorkuA kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
The Abominable Snowman
1957 · 121 votes
Film4.4DramTwo British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · 7 votes
Film6.5KomediThe first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Doctor in the House
1954 · 31 votes
Film5.7KomediSuçThe Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
The Alphabet Murders
1965 · 52 votes
Film5.1GizemKorkuBased upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970 · 18 votes
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Dizi7.8Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Avengers
1961 · 157 votes
Dizi7.3Aksiyon ve MaceraDramDanger 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.
Danger Man
1960 · 25 votes
Dizi6.7KomediClassic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.
Sykes
1972 · 6 votes
Dizi7.7DramBilim Kurgu ve FantastikAfter resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
The Prisoner
1967 · 221 votes
Dizi7.0DramAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
Dizi7.4KomediHancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Hancock's Half Hour
1956 · 9 votes
Dizi7.7KomediA British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
The Goodies
1970 · 26 votes
Dizi7.5DramColonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · 8 votes
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A court that is frequently presided over by the increasingly amused Mr Justice Swallow and Mr Haddock's long-suffering adversary Sir Joshua Hoot QC.
Misleading Cases
1967 · 2 votes
Dizi7.3KomediA black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. It was written by Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan. It was the first television series to feature both Sykes and Jacques, who later starred in 'Sykes and a Big, Big Show' and 'Sykes'.
Sykes and a...
1960 · 3 votes
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This is a real treasure for the countless fans of this flamboyant pianist and singer whose talent was almost overshadowed by his glittering stage productions. With his dazzling piano virtuosity and sparkling personality, Liberace endeared himself to millions. Dressed in his exotic suits and with a candelabra always present on the piano, he brought a special magic and charm to everything he played, whether it be the classics or the latest popular song. Here he runs the full gamut... from Chopin to Tin Pan Alley and all in his own unique style.
The Liberace Show
1952 · 1 votes