Alan Gifford

Alan Gifford

Birth : 1911-03-11, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA

Death : 1989-03-20

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Alan Gifford

Movies

The Sweet Scent of Death
John Fairfax
An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip turns into a nightmare with his wife haunted by a stalker seemingly from her past.
Who Dares Wins
Sen. Kohoskie
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Ragtime
Judge
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Phase IV
Mr. Eldridge
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
The Legend of Nigger Charley
Hill Carter
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
Along the Way
A young singer from Wales becomes a pop star but soon tires of his success and returns home.
The Male Animal
Dean Frederick Damon
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
Only When I Larf
Poster
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Poole's Father
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Dark of the Sun
Jansen
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
Drop Dead Darling
American Brasshat
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Where the Spies Are
Security
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
Carry On Cowboy
Commissioner
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
The Ambassadors
TV Movie directed by James Cellan Jones.
Devil Doll
Bob Garrett
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
The Road to Hong Kong
American Official
When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
Town Without Pity
General Stafford
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.
Visa to Canton
Charles Orme
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
No Kidding
Edgar Treadgold
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Too Young to Love
Mr. Elliot
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
South
Broderick
The earliest surviving gay-themed British TV drama, South stars Peter Wyngarde as Lt Jan Wicziewsky, who visits a southern plantation as the American Civil War looms. The arrival of Eric MacClure (Gould) forces Wicziewsky to face up to his darkest secret: his love for another man. Barely two years after the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality was still taboo – making Wyngarde’s impassioned performance all the more extraordinary.
The Mouse That Roared
Air Raid Warden
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Chain of Events
Lord Fenchurch
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Paris Holiday
American Consul
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
Escapement
Wayne
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
The Flying Scot
Phil
A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.
A King in New York
School Superintendent
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Time Lock
George Foster
A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
Across the Bridge
Cooper
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Hour of Decision
J. Foster Green
A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
The Iron Petticoat
Colonel Newton Tarbell
Captain 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.
Satellite in the Sky
Colonel Galloway
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
A Prize of Gold
Maj. Bracken
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
Barbados Quest
Henry Warburg
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.
A Yank in Ermine
Col. M'Gurk
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsure if he is prepared to make the sacrifice he takes a trip with his two best friends to try our his new title, but will he be able to cope with the British aristocracy?
Lilacs in the Spring
Hollywood Director
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
No Highway
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
The Kangaroo Kid
Steve Corbett
A 19th-century San Francisco detective named Tex Kinnane is sent "Down Under" to nab shyster lawyer Vincent Moller. Several comparisons are made between the American Wild West and the equally treacherous Australian outback.