John Wilcox
Nascimento : 1905-05-07, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Morte : 1979-05-31
História
John Laurence Wilcox was a British cinematographer active from the early 1940's up to his death in 1979. During that period he worked on numerous films, either as DOP (Director of Photography), director of second camera units on large budget films, or simply as a cameraman.
In the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s he lensed several popular films, such as "Carve Her Name with Pride", "The Cockleshell Heroes", "Safari", "The Mouse That Roared" and "Summer Holiday". In the mid 1960s he struck up a good working relationship with horror director Freddie Francis, and together they did horror classics such as "The Skull", "Hysteria", "The Evil of Frankenstein", "The Deadly Bees", "The Ghoul" and "Legend of the Werewolf".
As director of second camera units he worked on films such as "The Third Man", "The Guns of Navarone", "Casino Royale" and "The Eagle Has Landed".
Cinematography
Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.
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Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
Second Unit Director of Photography
Quando o alto comando nazista descobre, no final de 1943, que Winston Churchill passará um tempo em uma propriedade rural em Norfolk, cria um esquema audacioso para seqüestrar o primeiro-ministro e enviá-lo à Alemanha para negociações forçadas com Hitler.
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A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
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A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
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Peter Cushing encarna mais uma vez o Professor Van Helsing nesta divertida colaboração do poderoso estúdio inglês da Hammer com a Shaw Brothers de Hong kong, combinando os gêneros terror e kung fu. Van Helsing conta a seus estudantes a respeito de uma vilarejo amaldiçoado na China, onde, todo ano, durante 7 luas, a região é atormentada por sete vampiros. O famoso caçador de vampiros é persuadido por uma família de experts em Kung Fu a ajudar a salvar os moradores.
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Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
Director of Photography
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
Cinematography
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
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Os moradores de uma pequena aldeia alemã no último vale que permanece intocado pela devastadora Guerra dos Trinta Anos tentam conviver em paz com um grupo de soldados que ocupam o vale. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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Hathaway, um cientista ganhador do prêmio Nobel, recebe uma estranha carta que o leva à China – como um espião! Enviado para decifrar uma fórmula que poderia salvar milhões, Hathaway não sabe em quem pode confiar.
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Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
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Para tentar evitar um assalto em Londres, o policial Tom Campbell, por engano, termina dentro da TARDIS, uma máquina de viajem no tempo e espaço criada pelo Dr. Who. Dr.Who, sua filha, neta e Campbell viajam para o futuro e chegam no ano de 2150, encontrando Londres e o mundo inteiro destruídos. Quando começam a investigar, se encontram com alguns sobreviventes, que lhes dizem que a raça alienígena Daleks tomaram conta da Terra e tem planos para mover o planeta inteiro para sua terra natal, onde eles pilharão os seus recursos naturais. Dr. Who vai agora liderar a resistência para impedir que os Daleks tenham êxito em sua missão.
Director of Photography
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
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A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
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Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.
Director of Photography
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
Director of Photography
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
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A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her loved ones that she is not insane.
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1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
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A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
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Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
Director of Photography
Baseada na peça homônima de Jean Anouih, esta comédia romântica estrelada por Peter Sellers (A Pantera Cor-de-Rosa) tem toque picantes. Sellers é o general Fitzjohn que, apesar de sua imensa lista de conquistas, nunca consumou seu affair com a bela Ghislaine (Danny Robin), seu primeiro e verdadeiro amor. Ela quer tentar corrigir isso e toma uma drástica atitude, fingindo se afogar, apenas para ser salva pelo protegido de Fitzjohn e não pelo próprio general.
Director of Photography
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Additional Photography
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e após a perda de dois mil soldados britânicos no estreito grego de Kheros, os alemães resolvem reforçar defesas na região. Mas a retirada dos Aliados foi cortada por uma fortificação costeira alemã na ilha de Navarone, dotada de dois poderosíssimos canhões. Agora um pequeno grupo aliado, apoiado pela resistência grega, precisa de destruir as duas armas a fim de viabilizar a retirada britânica.
Cinematography
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
Director of Photography
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
Director of Photography
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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O ducado de Grand Fenwick decide que a única maneira de se livrar de seus problemas econômicos é declarar guerra aos Estados Unidos, perder e aceitar a ajuda estrangeira. Eles enviam uma força de invasão a Nova York (armados com arcos e flechas), que chega durante um exercício nuclear que deixou as ruas desertas. Vagando pelas ruas desertas em busca de encontrar alguém para se renderem, eles descobrem um cientista com uma arma moderníssima que pode destruir a Terra. Quando eles capturam o cientista e sua bomba eles ficam diante de uma nova possibilidade: O que você faz quando você ganha uma guerra?
Director of Photography
Durante uma caçada a um feroz tigre que aterroriza um vilarejo indiano, o ex-militar Harry Black reencontra sua ex-mulher Chris e o atual marido, Desmond, que conheceu Black em um campo de concentração na Segunda Guerra.
Director of Photography
Londres, Inglaterra, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Após uma trágica experiência de vida, a jovem Violette Szabo se junta ao Executivo de Operações Especiais e atravessa as linhas inimigas alemãs como agente secreto para ajudar um grupo da Resistência francesa.
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Na fronteira montanhosa entre Afeganistão e Índia britânica, cerca de 1860, Zarak Khan beija Salma, a mais jovem esposa de seu pai, Haji Khan.Indignado, as ordens de seu pai é açoitar Zarak Khan até a morte, mas poupa-lhe sua vida a pedido de um Mullah idoso… Zarak agora deixa sua aldeia e se torna um criminoso notório, o que levou os britânicos a ordenar ao major Ingram para capturá-lo. Zarak e Ingram ter vários encontros, desenvolvendo um respeito relutante um para com o outro . Quando Ingram é capturado por Ahmad, um dos rivais de Zarak, Zarak arrisca sua vida para salvar o oficial britânico.
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Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
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Jackie Lane sightsees in Portugal.
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Durante a WW2 um Major da Reserva da Marinha Real deve trabalhar com um Capitão veterano e um grupo de recrutas incorrigíveis na tentativa do que é geralmente considerada como uma missão suicida. A ordem era a destruição secreta de todos navios alemães atracados num estaleiro rio acima em Bordeaux, na França ocupada. E o ataque seria feito usando... canoas.
Director of Photography
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
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A aventura de um americano que se alistou no Regimento de Pára-quedas britânico em 1940, alegando ser canadense.
Director of Photography
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
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When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Director of Photography
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Additional Photography
Um escritor americano chega na Viena pós segunda guerra e descobre que o amigo que iria encontrá lo foi morto sobre circunstâncias misteriosas. Ao investigar o que de fato aconteceu, ele descobre uma trama que envolve o mercado negro de armas, espionagem internacional e uma sedutora jovem.
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A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
