Fred V. Merrick

Birth : 1899-04-30, Fulham, London, England, UK

Death : 1983-12-05

Movies

Sons of the Sea
Assistant Director
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
The Vicar of Bray
Assistant Director
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
The Man in the Mirror
Assistant Director
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
The Luck of the Irish
Assistant Director
'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)
Department Store
Assistant Director
The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
The Ace of Spades
Assistant Director
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
The Broken Melody
Assistant Director
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Flood Tide
Assistant Director
Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.
Whispering Tongues
Assistant Director
When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
The Black Abbot
Assistant Director
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Open All Night
Assistant Director
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
This Week of Grace
Assistant Director
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
Excess Baggage
Assistant Director
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Shadow
Assistant Director
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
The Roof
Assistant Director
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
When London Sleeps
Assistant Director
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Roses of Picardy
Writer
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.