Jim Goddard

Nascimento : 1936-02-02, London, England, UK

Morte : 2013-06-17

História

Jim Goddard is an English film and TV director born in London on February 2nd, 1936. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Goddard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

Gadgetman
Director
When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contraption that can save his dad’s life.
Lie Down with Lions
Director
Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization.
Blood and Dust
Director
The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades.
The Law Lord
Director
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard
Reasonable Force
Director
In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?
The Impossible Spy
Director
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Metamorphosis
Director
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becomes a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.
Surpresa de Shanghai
Director
Em 1938, quando Shanghai é ocupada pelos japoneses, o traficante Walter Faraday é morto pela polícia ao tentar deixar a cidade com 500 kg de ópio. Um ano depois, a missionária americana Gloria Tatlock chega a Shanghai à procura deste ópio, com o objetivo de usá-lo para aliviar a dor de soldados feridos na guerra. Oferecendo uma passagem de volta aos Estados Unidos como pagamento, ela consegue a ajuda de Glendon Wasey, um rude e esperto comerciante, e juntos enfrentam os perigos da caçada - já que outros grupos também estão de olho no ópio desaparecido.
A Polícia de Hitler: Um Retrato do Mal
Director
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
A Room for the Winter
Director
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.
A Tale of Two Cities
Director
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Fox
Director
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
The Black Stuff
Director
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
The Lifeswappers
Director
Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
Director
Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother in law and conflict.