Barry Foster
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1927-08-21
Locus Natus: Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Et ut: John Barry Foster
Frenzy
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
release : 1972.05.25popularis : 10.736
Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names
Documentary about director Joseph Losey featuring many of his collaborators.
release : 1998.06.06popularis : 0.739
Sea of Sand
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North...
release : 1958.11.04popularis : 4.869
Battle of Britain
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...
release : 1969.09.15popularis : 18.975
The Wild Geese
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and...
release : 1978.06.28popularis : 14.326
The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold...
release : 1986.11.21popularis : 7.937
Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
release : 1987.09.18popularis : 9.675
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...
release : 1957.04.01popularis : 3.359
The Interior Decorator
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
release : 1965.04.14popularis : 0.577
Ryan's Daughter
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
release : 1970.03.19popularis : 13.254
The Family Way
Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their...
release : 1966.12.18popularis : 7.763
Robbery
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying...
release : 1967.08.01popularis : 6.842
Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...
release : 1968.12.20popularis : 6.522
Sweeney!
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He...
release : 1977.01.14popularis : 4.198
Rancid Aluminium
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left...
release : 2000.01.21popularis : 2.622
King and Country
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial,...
release : 1964.09.05popularis : 4.345
The Guru
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
release : 1969.02.10popularis : 3.592
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted readers for nearly a century. Now, this enduring...
release : 1995.12.24popularis : 4.258
Worm in the Bud
An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.
release : 1959.09.27popularis : 0.94
After Pilkington
The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.
release : 1987.01.25popularis : 1.778
To Catch a King
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...
release : 1984.01.20popularis : 3.86
Succubus
A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a swimming pool. However, soon they find out that,...
release : 1987.07.02popularis : 1.22
Sea Fury
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the...
release : 1958.08.26popularis : 1.941
King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is...
release : 1990.05.25popularis : 2.692
Playback
A young policeman becomes involved with a glamorous German woman in London, to his cost.
release : 1962.09.01popularis : 0.58
A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
release : 1982.04.26popularis : 5.691
Random Moments in a May Garden
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
release : 1981.05.22popularis : 1.124
Where the Difference Begins
A family gather together as their mother lies dying. Death brings conflicts into sharp focus - not least between brothers Edgar and Richard…
release : 1961.12.15popularis : 1.214
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.
release : 1972.04.01popularis : 0.918
Beyond the Next Mountain
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
release : 1981.03.11popularis : 2.778
Heat and Dust
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 7.815
Dunkirk
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain...
release : 1958.03.20popularis : 17.333
Danger on Dartmoor
The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, and other dangers.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 2.69
The Three Hostages
Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy...
release : 1977.12.27popularis : 1.515
The Last Word
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 0.926
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
release : 2001.03.06popularis : 1.614
Hotel du Lac
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...
release : 1986.03.02popularis : 4.019
Three Kinds of Heat
Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.
release : 1987.06.01popularis : 4.019
A Quiet Day in Belfast
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
release : 1974.05.17popularis : 0.22
Old Times
Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and talk of the past. Although it is a past they have...
release : 1975.10.22popularis : 0.468
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer...
release : 1982.02.26popularis : 2.317
Party Time
At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late.
release : 1992.11.17popularis : 0.711
The Battle of the River Plate
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British...
release : 1956.10.30popularis : 17.688
Orde Wingate
The story of the military career of Orde Wingate, one of the most controversial and unorthodox Allied commanders of World War II. The guerrilla...
release : 1976.07.16popularis : 1.299