George Provis

Nacimiento : 1908-01-01, Berkshire, England, UK

Muerte : 1989-01-01

Películas

El esqueleto prehistórico
Art Direction
Un esqueleto humanoide es encontrado en una isla de Papua y es llevado hasta Londres para ser investigado. Una de sus asombrosas propiedades es que, al contacto con el agua, su carne tiene la propiedad de regenerarse. Cuando el proceso está a punto de cumplirse, descubren que en este ser se esconde la esencia del Mal.
Hide and Seek
Art Direction
A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
The Fiend
Art Direction
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
¿Quién mató a Tía Roo?
Art Direction
Libre adaptación del popular cuento "Hansel y Gretel". Inglaterra, años 20. Para los niños del orfanato, Tía Roo es una amable viuda americana que cada año celebra una gran fiesta de Navidad en su mansión de Forrest Grange, a la que invita a un grupo seleccionado de huérfanos. Una Navidad se fija en una niña que le recuerda a su hija fallecida... (FILMAFFINITY)
El grito de la muerte
Art Direction
Una bruja intenta vengarse del reino de sangre que impone un noble, impartiéndole una terrible maldición a él y a su familia. Un demonio con forma de hombre joven es enviado a asesinar a la familia del terrateniente.
El ataúd (La caja oblonga)
Art Direction
El aristócrata Julian Markham mantiene a su hermano desfigurado, Sir Edward, encerrado en una torre de su casa. De vez en cuando Sir Edward escapa y causa estragos en la ciudad...
Testigo hostil
Art Direction
Cuando la hija del abogado Simon Crawford muere atropellada por un conductor que se dio a la fuga, el hombre jura vengarse, pero cuando aparece muerto un vecino, se convierte en el primer sospechoso, al descubrir que la víctima estaba implicada en la muerte de la chica.
La Reina Vikinga
Production Design
A la muerte de su padre, Salina asume el reinado sobre la antigua Gran Bretaña para llevar a cabo los deseos de existencia pacífica bajo el dominio de los romanos. Ella se siente fuertemente atraída por Justiniano, el Gobernador General romano que trata de dominar a los nativos con tolerancia a pesar de los deseos de tomar medidas radicales por parte de su segundo al mando, Octavio. Cuando Justiniano es quitado de en medio con el pretexto de una rebelión en tierras lejanas, Octavio empieza una campaña de terror basada en la crueldad, a la cual Salina planta cara. Convertida en una diosa de la guerra a las riendas de su carro de combate, Salina lidera a su pueblo en un ataque demoledor contra Octavio. Una tremenda batalla y una difícil elección para Salina: su amor hacia Justiniano o la justicia para su pueblo.
Doctor Who: Los Daleks invaden la Tierra
Art Direction
En Los Daleks invaden la Tierra (Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.), la Tierra es un lugar espeluznante y siniestro en el año 2150. Las ciudades están destrozadas y los humanos convertidos en muertos vivientes, los Robomen. El Dr. Who viaja al futuro. ¿Conseguirá destruir a los Daleks?
The Idol
Art Direction
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Las arenas del Kalahari
Art Direction
Cuando un avión que recorre el sur de África choca con un emjambre de langostas que lo inutilizan, el piloto tendrá que realizar un aterrizaje forzoso en pleno desierto de Kalahari. Los supervivientes deberán soportar entonces unas pésimas condiciones de subsistencia, pero, sobre todo, tendrán que hacer frente a una manada de mandriles que los acosan salvajemente. Por si esto fuera poco, la presencia de una sola mujer en el grupo desencadenará una tormenta de pasiones entre los hombres. (FILMAFFINITY)
Do You Know This Voice?
Art Direction
When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for the killer – telling the press that she had seen the kidnapper's face and she waits for him to attack.
La Tierra muere gritando
Art Direction
Después de un largo viaje, un piloto espacial vuelve a la Tierra y la encuentra devastada. Con ayuda de algunos supervivientes, pondrá en marcha un plan para derrotar a los robots asesinos que dominan el planeta y restablecer en él la vida
The Eyes of Annie Jones
Art Direction
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
Brujería
Art Direction
Una familia de brujos del siglo XVII, fueron aniquilados en aquella época por cazadores de brujas, pero juraron volver para vengarse. 300 años después, en la era moderna, aprovechan una situación propicia para regresar de la tumba y utilizarán su poder para vengarse de los descendientes de sus verdugos.
Catacombs
Art Direction
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
Night of the Prowler
Art Direction
An avaricious, ambitious fellow, desiring to hold the reins for a major auto company, must frame someone for murder before he can get what he wants. He chooses a reformed embezzler who works for the company.
The Painted Smile
Art Direction
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
The Break
Art Direction
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
Offbeat
Art Direction
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Too Young to Love
Art Direction
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.
Subway in the Sky
Art Direction
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
SOS Pacific
Art Direction
A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
Further Up the Creek
Art Direction
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Heart of a Child
Production Design
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
The Passionate Stranger
Art Direction
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
La tienda negra
Art Direction
Durante la retirada británica, David Holland se refugia en una tribu beduina y se casa con la hija del jeque. No obstante, muere cuando intenta reunirse con su regimiento. (FILMAFFINITY)
Operación Tirpitz
Art Direction
II Guerra Mundial. La marina de guerra británica se encuentra amenazada por el acorazado alemán Tirpitz. Con una gran potencia de fuego, sobretodo sus ochos cañones de 381 milímetros con alcance de hasta 34 kilómetros, este acorazado podría acabar fácilmente con sus líneas de suministros marítimos, siendo este un riesgo que Inglaterra no puede consentir. Resguardado en el fiordo de Trondheim, Noruega, es imposible atacarlo con una oportunidad de éxito. Pero el Comandante Fraser (John Mills) propone un ingenioso y arriesgado plan. Su idea consiste en llegar a Trondheim camuflados con un pesquero noruego y una vez próximos al objetivo usar tres submarinos de bolsillo experimentales que deberán depositar bajo su casco varias cargas explosivas subacuáticas.
Mad About Men
Art Direction
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Venetian Bird
Art Direction
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Cita con Venus
Art Direction
El 10 de Julio de 1940 los nazis invaden Amorel, una estrátegica isla británica. La ocupación causa gran consternación al ministro de agricultura, ya que en la pequeña isla se encuentra ”Venus”, una vaca de extraordinario pedigree y de gran valor energético. El ministro presiona a la oficina de guerra para que intervenga en la recuperación del preciado animal.
There Is Another Sun
Art Direction
La historia de un boxeador y motorista que intenta seducir a una hermosa muchacha durante el carnaval.
The Late Edwina Black
Art Direction
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
Traveller's Joy
Art Direction
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
Extraño suceso
Supervising Art Director
Dos hermanos ingleses (David Tomlison y Jean Simmons) visitan París con motivo de la Exposición Universal de 1889. Después de instalarse en un lujoso hotel, por la noche van al Moulin Rouge, donde ella pasa una agradable velada, pero él siente un enorme malestar. A la mañana siguiente, ella comprueba estupefacta que tanto su hermano como la habitación que ocupaba han desaparecido. Sin embargo, en el hotel todos le aseguran que ella llegó sola. Nadie cree en sus palabras, excepto un joven (Bogarde) a quien el desaparecido había prestado cincuenta francos la noche anterior.
The Astonished Heart
Supervising Art Director
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Christopher Columbus
Supervising Art Director
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Don't Ever Leave Me
Art Direction
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Marry Me
Supervising Art Director
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
El malvado Lord Byron
Supervising Art Director
Gravemente herido durante una campaña militar en Grecia, Lord Byron sueña que es juzgado al morir por ser, de una parte, poeta y soldado, y de otra seductor y libertino. Entre los testigos se encuentran la infame Lady caroline Lamb y su esposa Annabella, algo más pura... (filmaffinit)
Once Upon a Dream
Supervising Art Director
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Helter Skelter
Production Design
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Portrait from Life
Art Direction
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
The Calendar
Supervising Art Director
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Easy Money
Supervising Art Director
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Querido asesino
Supervising Art Director
Un exitoso hombre de negocios descubre que su mujer está teniendo un "affaire" y va en busca de su amante para matarlo y enmascarar el asunto como un suicidio. El plan se complica cuando descubre en casa del "suicidado" que su mujer se encuentra con otro amante, modificando su planteamiento inicial y complicando aún más el asunto.
The Brothers
Art Direction
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
I Didn't Do It
Art Direction
El aspirante a animador George Trotter (George Formby) llega a Londres en busca de fama y fortuna, pero pronto tiene que intentar limpiar su nombre después de ser acusado de un asesinato en su alojamiento.
He Snoops to Conquer
Art Direction
El extraño trabajador George Gribble (George Formby) causa problemas al consejo local para el que trabaja cuando, sin darse cuenta, ayuda a dos periodistas a exponer la corrupción entre los líderes del consejo.
Bell Bottom George
Art Direction
Los espías nazis están dispuestos a destruir un nuevo asesino submarino, el "Firefly", que está siendo desarrollado por la marina británica. Un desafortunado camarero llamado George, después de haber sido rechazado para el servicio militar en tres ocasiones, finalmente "se une" cuando, durante un ataque aéreo, lo confunden con un verdadero marinero. Pronto, sin saberlo, se topa con el escondite secreto de los espías nazis que intentan destruir la luciérnaga. Sobrevienen complicaciones.
I'll Walk Beside You
Art Direction
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
Much Too Shy
Art Direction
Un manitas y un artista aficionado se mete en problemas cuando se agregan cuerpos femeninos desnudos a las cabezas que ha dibujado de damas prominentes y se venden como anuncios de jabón.
Rhythm Racketeer
Art Direction
A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
Cotton Queen
Art Direction
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Boys Will Be Girls
Art Direction
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Everything Is Rhythm
Art Direction
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.