William Fairchild

출생 : 1918-01-06,

사망 : 2000-05-09

참여 작품

The Break
Writer
Two strangers break into a man's house and subject him to a series of terrifying - and humiliating - mind games.
The Darwin Adventure
Writer
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
Embassy
Screenplay
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
Star!
Writer
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Do Not Disturb
Theatre Play
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
The Horsemasters
Writer
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
The Horsemasters
Director
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
The Silent Enemy
Screenplay
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
The Silent Enemy
Director
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
The Extra Day
Director
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
Value for Money
Writer
A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
John and Julie
Writer
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
John and Julie
Director
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Passage Home
Writer
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
The Seekers
Screenplay
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Front Page Story
Screenplay
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
Malta Story
Story
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
Malta Story
Screenplay
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
The Net
Screenplay
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
Gift Horse
Screenplay
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
버림받은 자의 초상
Writer
윌렘스는 싱가폴에서 하딕이라는 사업가의 매니저로 일하고 있다. 하지만 사실 그는 배운 것이라고는 남의 것을 이용해 이득을 챙기는 것뿐인 야망에 찬 사기꾼이다. 영화는 하딕이 윌렘스의 계획을 눈치채고 그를 경찰에 넘기려 하면서 시작된다. 때마침 링가드 선장의 배가 항구에 도착한다. 링가드 선장은 갈 곳 없는 윌렘스를 키운, 이 지역에서 존경받고 인정받는 덕망높은 사람이다. 윌렘스는 자살을 가장, 항구를 떠나는 링가드의 배에 접근해 그의 배를 타고 자유를 찾아 떠난다. 배는 보잘것없는 한 원주민 부락에 도착한다. 이 마을은 링가드 선장덕분에 살기 좋아진 마을로 아직 문명의 혜택을 받지 못한 곳이다. 링가드 선장은 그 원주민 부락에 살고 있는 자신의 양녀 부부내외에게 윌렘스를 부탁하고 다시 항해를 떠난다. 윌렘스는 자신의 죄 때문에 싱가폴에 돌아 갈 수 없어 어쩔 수 없이 링가드선장이 주문대로 원주민 마을에 남는다. 하지만 링가드가 단조로운 비문명화된 세계에서 적용할 리가 없다. 그러던 중 윌렘스는 원주민 부락의 추장의 딸을 사랑하게 되고 원주민과 영국인과의 알력다툼에 끼여들게 된다. 이곳 원주민들은 발전에 장애가 되는 지형적인 조건을 개선하고 싶었지만 링가드 선장의 반대로 계획이 수포로 돌아가자 그들은 윌렘스의 존재를 이용해 그 계획을 실현해 보려고 한다.