John Croydon

Nacimiento : 1907-11-03, London, England, UK

Películas

El hombre proyectado
Screenplay
El profesor Steiner y sus dos asistentes están absorbidos en la proyección de materia por medio de rayo laser. Steiner se usa a sí mismo como humano para probar que su experimento funciona. Él es proyectado y se convierte en una forma horrible. También recibe una fuerte carga de electricidad quemando todo lo que toca.
El hombre proyectado
Producer
El profesor Steiner y sus dos asistentes están absorbidos en la proyección de materia por medio de rayo laser. Steiner se usa a sí mismo como humano para probar que su experimento funciona. Él es proyectado y se convierte en una forma horrible. También recibe una fuerte carga de electricidad quemando todo lo que toca.
Viento en las velas
Producer
En 1860, después de una gran tormenta, unos padres deciden embarcar a sus hijos en un velero con destino Londres. El barco es asaltado por unos piratas que se llevan a los niños.
El animador
Associate Producer
Durante una actuación en un hotel de playa, un showman intenta inútilmente atraer la atención de un público poco participativo. Pero su fracaso no es sólo profesional; tambien se está hundiendo su vida personal.
First Man Into Space
Screenplay
Un avezado piloto desobedece las órdenes y se convierte en el primer hombre en el espacio. Pero al regresar a la Tierra ha contraído un peligroso monstruo que bebe sangre humana.
First Man Into Space
Producer
Un avezado piloto desobedece las órdenes y se convierte en el primer hombre en el espacio. Pero al regresar a la Tierra ha contraído un peligroso monstruo que bebe sangre humana.
Pasillos de sangre
Producer
Un doctor británico en el siglo XIX experimenta con anestesia y se convierte en adicto a los narcóticos, sufriendo una gran humillación cuando un paciente se levanta de la mesa de operaciones y ataca a sus doctores. El buen doctor es luego chantajeado por dos profanadores de tumbas, que lo obligan a firmar falsos certificados de defunción.
Monstruo sin rostro
Producer
Un capitán en una base aérea del Canadá debe investigar una serie de desapariciones. Las sospechas recaen en un científico que ha estado realizando experimentos en el campo de la telequinesis.
El estrangulador fantasma
Writer
Un relato de misterio acerca de la investigación de macabros crímenes cometidos por un siniestro psicópata.
El estrangulador fantasma
Producer
Un relato de misterio acerca de la investigación de macabros crímenes cometidos por un siniestro psicópata.
Golden Ivory
Producer
Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Operation Malaya
Writer
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
Tall Headlines
Production Director
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
White Corridors
Producer
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
Your Witness
Production Supervisor
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
A Piece of Cake
Producer
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
A Piece of Cake
Story
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
To the Public Danger
Producer
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
Penny and the Pownall Case
Producer
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
Vida y aventuras de Nicholas Nickleby
Producer
Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.
Al morir la noche
Associate Producer
En un caserón inglés se reúne un grupo de personas que comienzan a contar historias de misterio: la de un conductor de autobús que parece anunciar la muerte, la de un fantasma infantil que mora en una mansión, la de dos amigos enfrentados por una mujer incluso después de la muerte, la de un espejo maldito, la de un muñeco de ventrílocuo que controla a su propietario.
Champagne Charlie
Associate Producer
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
My Learned Friend
Production Supervisor
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Undercover
Production Supervisor
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
Greek Testament
Production Supervisor
British war documentary
Went the Day Well? (48 Hours)
Production Supervisor
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Goose Steps Out
Production Supervisor
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Somewhere In France
Production Manager
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Production Manager
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Find, Fix and Strike
Production Manager
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
Ships with Wings
Production Manager
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Turned Out Nice Again
Production Manager
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Yellow Caesar
Recording Supervision
Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.
Yellow Caesar
Production Manager
Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.
Sailors Three
Production Manager
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Spare a Copper
Production Manager
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Sea Fort
Production Manager
The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.
Ten Days in Paris
Production Manager
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Food for Thought
Producer
In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).