James Hill
Nacimiento : 1919-07-09, Eldwick, Yorks, England, UK
Muerte : 1994-10-07
Historia
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James ("Jimmy") Hill (1 August 1919 - 7 October 1994) was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 52 years between 1937–1989, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home Made Car, and as director of the internationally acclaimed Born Free.
Hill also directed, produced and/or wrote such diverse films as Black Beauty, A Study in Terror, Every Day's a Holiday, The Lion at World's End (aka Christian the Lion), Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, The Man from O.R.G.Y., and the children's television series' Worzel Gummidge and Worzel Gummidge Down Under.
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Producer
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Director
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Self
Writer
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
Producer
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
Director
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
Director
A scientist learns that the chimpanzees he's studying are to be subjected to radiation experiments, so he hatches a plan to steal them away to a wildlife preserve.
Director
The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she soon finds herself persecuted by the apparent visitations of an unsettling stranger. Who is this man from nowhere and just why is he tying to scare her away?
Director
La vida nunca es aburrida en lo que a Lord Brett Sinclair y Danny Wilde se refiere. Pero, ¿quién esperaría un grave aunque hilarante peligro en una de las casas señoriales de Brett? Aún más inesperado, el asesinato y la magia negra aparecen cuando Danny decide tener su propio pedacito de Inglaterra y compra una vieja casa de campo.
Writer
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
Director
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
Director
Drama de un hermoso caballo, Belleza Negra, y las diversas aventuras y desventuras que vive, tras ser separado de sus dueños originales: unos granjeros arruinados, que a pesar del dolor que provocan a su hijo Joe, muy unido al animal, deben hacer frente a sus deudas con la entrega del caballo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
When the wealthy owner of an upscale brothel dies, our hero Victor, is sent on a wild goose chase to find the three beautiful heiresses. His only clue is that each of the three women have a hamster branded on their buttocks! When the girls are mysteriously murdered, it is up to Victor to solve the murders.
Director
Seis náufragos son rescatados durante una tempestad por el capitán Nemo que les conduce en una fantástica nave submarina, la "Ciudad de Oro", bajo las aguas del océano Atlántico. Allí conocen a extraños personajes con los que viven emocionantes aventuras.
Writer
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
Director
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
Producer
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
Writer
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
Director
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
Director
Un espía norteamericano se halla en Hong Kong, cuando se apodera de un medallón antiguo y descubre que es el objetivo de varios grupos misteriosos.
Director
Lem Putt specializes in building outdoor lavatories.
Director
Después de una ronda de vigilancia por la selva de Kenia, George Adamson lleva a su mujer, Joy, tres cachorros de león a cuyos padres se ha visto forzado a matar. Pronto los animales reinan en la casa, sobre todo la pequeña “Elsa”, que se convierte en la constante compañía y la ama del hogar. Las autoridades intervienen para hacerle ver que los animales suponen un peligro creciente, hasta que el matrimonio Adamson se decide a llevarlos al aeropuerto de Nairobi para internarlos en un zoo. Sólo “Elsa” se queda con ellos.
Director
Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. Watson se lanzan a la búsqueda del asesino en serie conocido como "Jack el Destripador".
Screenplay
A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
Director
A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
Director
The Home-Made Car is a 1963 short film directed by James Hill about a young man who rebuilds a vintage car and finds love. Made in and around Farnborough, Hampshire, it became a cult success when regularly broadcast as a trade test colour transmission on the run up to the start of BBC2 colour transmissions. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Director
Un inepto abogado, defiende su primer caso en los tribunales - un caso cerrado de asesinato de un marido que no aguantaba más a su mujer. No cabe ninguna duda que es culpable, así que su abogado tiene que ingeniar varias estrategias de defensa, cada una más improbable e inútil que la anterior.
Director
A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their illicit lunch hour rendezvous.
Director
Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.
Director
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
Producer
Oscar winning short in which a young girl observes the array of quirky characters who pass her father's rural petrol station.
Director
Oscar winning short in which a young girl observes the array of quirky characters who pass her father's rural petrol station.
Director
Jane and Tom set out on an adventure in which they must keep the corrupt Grimblatt from locating the K-13 fuel for his evil space mirror.
Director
Use of a helicopter to transport an oil-drilling rig to a prospecting site deep in the New Guinea jungle.
Second Unit Director
Douglas Bader, uno de los grandes héroes británicos de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), vio incrementada su popularidad cuando, en 1954, tras publicarse su biografía, apareció una versión abreviada de la misma en la popular revista Reader's Digest. En esa obra se basó el film de Gilbert, el más taquillero de Inglaterra desde el estreno de “Lo que El Viento se Llevó”. A pesar de que a finales de los años 20, a Bader le habían amputado las dos piernas, tras un accidente aéreo, gracias a unas prótesis de aluminio pudo participar en la Batalla de Inglaterra.
Writer
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
Director
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
Writer
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
Director
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
Director
Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.
Writer
Después de servir en el ejército durante la I Guerra Mundial, el reportero Terry O'Neill vuelve a casa. Descubre que es más difícil encontrar empleo de lo que había pensado.
