Billy Williams

Billy Williams

Nascimento : 1929-06-03, Walthamstow, London, England, UK

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Billy Williams

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Light Keeps Me Company
Director of Photography
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Driftwood
Director of Photography
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
Reunion
Director of Photography
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
Shadow of the Wolf
Director of Photography
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec.
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Director of Photography
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
Stella - Uma Prova de Amor
Director of Photography
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
The Rainbow
Director of Photography
Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.
The Lottery
Cinematography
A music teacher realizes that she's won the lottery, but then promptly loses the ticket out the window. The short film then follows her exploits to recover the ticket as it is grabbed by a pigeon, blown down the street and into the subway.
Just Ask for Diamond
Director of Photography
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.
Sob Suspeita
Director of Photography
O juiz Charles F. Lowell comete suicídio e logo após Elizabeth Rose Quinn, sua secretária, é encontrada morta. Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), um indigente surdo-mudo, é preso pelo assassinato. Kathleen Riley (Cher), uma defensora pública, é designada pela corte como sua advogada. Inicialmente Anderson se mostra muito agressivo, mas quando Kathleen consegue se comunicar com ele se mostra bem mais sociável. Ela tem dúvidas se ele é realmente culpado, assim decide achar o verdadeiro assassino. É ajudada por Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), um assessor parlamentar, que faz parte do júri. Apesar de advogada e jurado não poderem se falar, eles descobrem juntos um perigoso círculo de corrupção no Judiciário.
Jogos Fatais
Director of Photography
Um aluno prodígio do ensino médio constrói uma bomba atômica com plutônio roubado, para ganhar a 45ª Feira Nacional de Ciências, e expor um laboratório de armas nucleares que se faz passar por uma clínica de medicina nuclear em Ithaca, NY.
Eleni
Director of Photography
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
Dreamchild
Director of Photography
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
Punição Para a Inocência
Director of Photography
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.
O Negócio é Sobreviver
Director of Photography
Numa manhã um jovem executivo de sucesso, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams), é chamado pelo chefe. Eleé despedido por um papagaio, que estava na cadeira do diretor geral, um método que a companhia usa para mostrar todo o seu poder. Donald conhece Sonny Paluso (Walter Matthau), o dono de um posto de gasolina, que ficou sem trabalho pois seu negócio literalmente explodiu. Nenhum dos dois sabe, mas após ter sido demitido Donald estava tão perturbado que provocou a explosão do posto e não viu o que tinha feito. Os dois novos amigos impedem um roubo e se tornam heróis. O ladrão, Jack Locke (Jerry Reed), um assassino de aluguel, escapa e ao ver o rosto de Donald na televisão jura matá-lo. Donald sempre teve medo de armas, mas fica obcecado por espingardas visando se proteger e se matrícula em uma escola de treinamento para sobreviver nas montanhas de Vermont.
Gandhi
Director of Photography
África do Sul, início do século XX. Após ser expulso da 1ª classe de um trem, o jovem e idealista advogado indiano inicia um processo de auto-avaliação da condição da Índia, que na época era uma colônia britânica, e seus súditos ao redor do planeta. Já na Índia, através de manifestações enérgicas, mas não-violentas, atraiu para si a atenção do mundo ao se colocar como líder espiritual de hindus e muçulmanos.
Monsignor
Director of Photography
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
A Casa do Lago
Director of Photography
Os mergulhões estão de volta em Golden Pond assim como Norman Thayer, professor aposentado, e Ethel, que sempre tiveram uma casa de verão lá, desde o início de seu casamento. Neste verão a sua filha Chelsea - a quem não viam há anos - sente que deve estar lá para o aniversário de Norman. Ela e seu noivo estão indo para a Europa no dia seguinte, mas estarão de volta em duas semanas para pegar o filho do noivo. Quando Chelsea retorna já está casada e seu enteado tem o relacionamento com seu pai que ela sempre quis. Será que pai e filha serão capazes de finalmente se comunicar?
Missão Saturno 3
Director of Photography
Num futuro distante, um casal de cientistas vive numa estação orbital científica chamada Saturno 3. Certo dia recebem a visita de um militar que pretende utilizar os laboratórios para a construção de Hector, um robô de altíssima tecnologia. Hector se apaixona pela bela esposa do cientista, demonstrando um ciúme obsessivo pela mulher.
Red, White, and Zero
Director of Photography
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Going in Style
Director of Photography
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
Boardwalk
Director of Photography
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
Indômita Disputa
Director of Photography
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
O Sócio do Silêncio
Director of Photography
Toronto, Canadá. Alguns dias antes do Natal, Miles Cullen, um caixa entediado trabalhando em uma agência bancária em um shopping, descobre acidentalmente que o local está prestes a ser assaltado quando encontra uma nota confusa em um dos balcões.
The Devil's Advocate
Director of Photography
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
A Viagem dos Condenados
Director of Photography
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
O Vento e o Leão
Sir Joseph
Tanger, Marrocos, outubro de 1904. Uma bela e refinada americana, Eden Pedecaris (Candice Bergen), é sequestrada juntamente com seu casal de filhos por Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli, o Magnífico (Sean Connery), um líder Berbere que fez isto com o objetivo de constranger o sultão do Marrocos (Marc Zuber), que está fazendo várias concessões para os estrangeiros. Sabendo disto Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, declarou que se necessário faria uma intervenção armada no Marrocos, para proteger os americanos (na verdade era mais um discurso político, visando as próximas eleições, que qualquer outra coisa). Eden fica apavorada com os costumes que Raisuli segue e teme por sua vida e de seus filhos, mas aos poucos surge entre ela e Raisuli uma demonstração mútua de respeito e admiração.
O Vento e o Leão
Director of Photography
Tanger, Marrocos, outubro de 1904. Uma bela e refinada americana, Eden Pedecaris (Candice Bergen), é sequestrada juntamente com seu casal de filhos por Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli, o Magnífico (Sean Connery), um líder Berbere que fez isto com o objetivo de constranger o sultão do Marrocos (Marc Zuber), que está fazendo várias concessões para os estrangeiros. Sabendo disto Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, declarou que se necessário faria uma intervenção armada no Marrocos, para proteger os americanos (na verdade era mais um discurso político, visando as próximas eleições, que qualquer outra coisa). Eden fica apavorada com os costumes que Raisuli segue e teme por sua vida e de seus filhos, mas aos poucos surge entre ela e Raisuli uma demonstração mútua de respeito e admiração.
The Glass Menagerie
Director of Photography
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
Horowitz in Dublin
Cinematography
Horowitz in Dublin (1973) - A forgotton curio filled with time capsule footage of the Irish capital, seemingly a pilot for a Brannigan-style series starring Harvey Lembeck a world away from either Bilko or Beach Party as a New York cop in Dublin, with Sinead and Cyril Cusack plus Al lettieri and Cesare Danova, plus the likes of Liam Redmond, Martin Dempsey and Tom Hickey. Seeing Lembeck surronded by Jacob's biscuit products is certainly a sight. Future Fair City regular Clive Geraghty plays the heroic sidekick. Was there an Irish Sunday Express in real life?
Vigília nas Sombras
Director of Photography
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?
Kid Blue Não Nasceu Para a Forca
Director of Photography
Bickford, chega na cidade de Texas Dime Box e assume uma variedade de trabalhos braçais. Ele é ajudado por Reese e sua esposa, Molly. Somente com a chegada da ex-namorada Janet descobre-se que Bickford é realmente o famoso ladrão de trem Kid Blue.
Joana, A Mulher Que Foi Papa
Director of Photography
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Domingo Maldito
Director of Photography
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
X, Y e Z
Director of Photography
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
A Balada de Tam Lin
Director of Photography
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Director of Photography
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Mulheres Apaixonadas
Director of Photography
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
O Mago
Director of Photography
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Red and Blue
Cinematography
Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967).
O Cérebro de Um Bilhão de Dólares
Director of Photography
Um ex-espião britânico tropeça em um complô para derrubar o comunismo com a ajuda de um supercomputador. Mas quem está trabalhando para quem? Harry Palmer deixou o Serviço Secreto Britânico e se tornou um detetive particular. Uma de seus primeiros trabalhos é entregar uma garrafa térmica aparentemente inocente a um velho amigo em Helsinque. Palmer suspeita do conteúdo da térmica e começa a duvidar dos motivos de seu amigo e do seu chefe, um bilionário texano.
Just Like a Woman
Cinematography
A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.
People Apart
Cinematography
Demonstrates different types of epilepsies in various personalities and age groups.
Five Guineas a Week
Director of Photography
Britain's first musical shot in colour and widescreen (a process called Cosmoscope) is a cabaret-style featurette centred on a group of young people in Chelsea lodgings, watched over by a fatherly caretaker. Eight specially written songs are performed by stage stars of the day – most notably Georgia Brown, who later created the role of Nancy in Oliver!