Denis Johnson

Nascimento : 1918-08-03, Lambeth, London, England, UK

Morte : 1986-09-20

Filmes

Haunters of the Deep
Production Manager
Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore.
A Maldição da Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Production Manager
O inspetor Clouseau desaparece e o mundo exige que o segundo melhor detetive do mundo procure por ele. No entanto, o inimigo de Clouseau, Dreyfus, manipula o computador para selecionar, em vez disso, o pior detetive do mundo: O sargento da polícia de Nova York, Clifton Sleigh. Não demora para Sleigh começar a fazer trapalhadas na investigação, enquanto escapa de assassinos e policiais corruptos, fazendo-os se questionarem se ele não seria parente de Clouseau.
A Trilha da Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Production Manager
O diamante “Pantera Cor de Rosa” é mais uma vez roubado de Lugash e as autoridades chamam o inspetor chefe Clouseau (Peter Sellers), que tem que vir da França. Só que seu avião desaparece na rota aérea. Dessa vez, a repórter da TV Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley) resolve que será ela quem vai solucionar o mistério e começa a fazer diversas entrevistas com pessoas conectadas a Clouseau. Durante o processo, ela também é sequestrada por um mafioso que não quer que Marie encontre o detetive, só que ela consegue escapar e continua sua busca por pistas.
Outland: Comando Titânio
Production Manager
William O'Niel é um delegado espacial enviado a uma base de coleta de titânio. Ele investiga uma série de mortes misteriosas de mineradores e descobre que a produtividade dos trabalhadores está sendo estimulada por drogas perigosas.
Reencarnação
Production Manager
No Egito, o arqueólogo Matthew Corbeck está obcecado em encontrar a tumba de uma milenar rainha egípcia cuja história foi totalmente apagada pelos antigos, inconformados com as enormes iniquidades cometidas por ela. No exato momento em que Corbeck localiza a câmara mortuária e a múmia da Rainha Kara, no hospital sua esposa dá à luz a uma filha, Margaret, que o arqueólogo suspeita ser uma reencarnação da amaldiçoada soberana egípcia.
Ao Encontro da Guerra e do Amor
Production Manager
Margaret é uma enfermeira na Inglaterra durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e casada com um agente secreto. As coisas ficam complicadas quando ela se apaixona por David, um piloto americano.
The Four Feathers
Production Supervisor
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, symbols of cowardice.
Nasty Habits
Production Manager
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Permissão Para Matar
Production Supervisor
An unsavory intelligence agent (Dirk Bogarde) plots the downfall of a Third World political leader (Bekim Fehmiu).
Out of Season
Production Supervisor
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...
Out of Season
Post Production Supervisor
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...
No Sex Please: We're British
Production Supervisor
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the banks' head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the porn—without letting their boss, the local police and David's mother in on what is happening.
O Grande Seqüestro
Production Supervisor
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
De Olho na Esposa
Production Supervisor
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.
O Mensageiro
Producer
Leo Colston relembra um fato ocorrido quando ele era garoto, quando serviu de intermediário entre Marian, uma mulher aristocrática, e Ted Burgess, um rude fazendeiro, entregando-lhes cartas de amor. Vencedor da Palma de Ouro em 1971 no “Festival de Cannes” e baseado em romance homônimo de L.P. Hartley.
Bloomfield
Production Supervisor
An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.
Paixões Proibidas
Associate Producer
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
Oliver!
Production Supervisor
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
A Condessa de Hong Kong
Production Supervisor
A Revolução Russa fez com que vários integrantes da nobreza local fugissem para a China e Hong Kong, que na época era um protetorado inglês. Lá cresceram suas filhas que, apesar de terem títulos nobiliárquicos, precisaram se prostituir para sobreviver. Uma destas mulheres é Natascha (Sophia Loren), condessa de pai russo, que é apresentada ao empresário Ogden Mears (Marlon Brando) quando o navio dele aporta em Hong Kong. Ogden e Harvey (Sydney Chaplin), seu amigo, saem com Natascha e outras mulheres na mesma situação, acreditando que apenas as verão naquele dia. Porém, quando o navio deixa Hong Kong, Ogden encontra Natascha escondida no guarda-roupas de sua cabine. Ela deseja ir para os Estados Unidos, onde poderá recomeçar sua vida, mas para tanto precisa da ajuda de Ogden para não ser descoberta como clandestina. Inicialmente reticente, aos poucos Ogden aceita a idéia de ajudá-la.
Como Conquistar as Mulheres
Production Supervisor
Alfie é um charmoso conquistador que vive em Londres. Ele tem várias aventuras amorosas, pois sempre quer mais mulheres na sua "coleção". Ele as usa, pois não tem nenhum tipo de censura e pula de uma cama para outra sem nenhum remorso. Porém Alfie não é tão despreocupado ou indiferente como tenta passar para a audiência, para quem fala diretamente diversas vezes. Tentando ser livre como um pássaro, ele ignora quem realmente o ama e seu filho acaba sendo criado por outro homem. Somente após várias conquistas e vitórias dúbias ele começa a questionar sua vida.
Ipcress Arquivo Confidencial
Production Manager
Em Londres, um agente de contra-espionagem lida com sua própria burocracia enquanto investiga o sequestro e lavagem cerebral de cientistas britânicos.
Um Tiro no Escuro
Production Manager
Em Paris, na mansão de Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders), um conhecido milionário, um crime é cometido e por engano é mandado o Inspetor Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), o mais atrapalhado dos detetives franceses. Enquanto as investigações avançam, novas mortes acontecem e as evidências sugerem que a culpada é Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), uma arrumadeira que trabalha na mansão de Ballon. Entretanto, Clouseau tem certeza da inocência dela e está disposto a investigar o caso (mas sempre de uma forma pouco convencional), para descobrir quem é o culpado ou culpados das mortes.
Desafio do Além
Associate Producer
O Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson) faz uma pesquisa para provar a existência de fantasmas e, com isso, se interessa pela Hill House, uma mansão com 90 anos localizada na Nova Inglaterra e que tem em sua história mortes, violência e loucura. Junto com ele estão Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn), um cético que está para herdar a casa, a misteriosa e clarividente Theodora (Claire Bloom) e a insegura e carente Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), cujos dons psíquicos a transformam no instrumento de ligação com os espíritos da velha mansão. Gradativamente fica óbvio que eles encontraram algo muito maior e aterrorizante do que poderiam imaginar.
Caçadores de Mulheres
Production Manager
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
The Punch and Judy Man
Production Manager
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Luz na Praça
Unit Manager
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
A Matter of WHO
Production Manager
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Cuidado com as Viúvas
Production Manager
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
A Aldeia dos Amaldiçoados
Production Manager
Em uma pequena cidade da Inglaterra todas as pessoas, de forma inexplicável, desmaiam por algumas horas. Dois meses depois do acontecido todas as mulheres com possibilidade de ter filhos ficam grávidas. Quando as crianças nascem elas se revelam extremamente inteligentes e com traços desconhecidos da raça humana, sugerindo serem alienígenas.
Bottoms Up!
Production Manager
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Tommy the Toreador
Production Manager
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing a VERY angry bull and cheered on by the crowd. What will he do now?
Wonderful Things!
Production Manager
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Production Manager
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
These Dangerous Years
Assistant Director
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Assistant Director
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
It's Great to be Young!
Assistant Director
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
Home and Away
Assistant Director
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
My Teenage Daughter
Assistant Director
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Timeslip
Assistant Director
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
A Sombra do Pecado
Assistant Director
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
The Deadliest Sin
First Assistant Director
A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.
The Hornet's Nest
Assistant Director
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Contraband Spain
Assistant Director
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Assistant Director
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
A Fera Adormecida
Assistant Director
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Devil on Horseback
Production Manager
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
Os Bons Morrem Cedo
Assistant Director
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Child's Play
First Assistant Director
A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.
Operation Diplomat
Assistant Director
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Background
Assistant Director
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
The Village
Assistant Director
The Village (German: Sie fanden eine Heimat) is a 1953 Swiss drama film directed by Leopold Lindtberg.
Laxdale Hall
Assistant Director
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Miss Robin Hood
Assistant Director
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.
The Brave Don't Cry
Assistant Director
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Assistant Director
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
The Madame Gambles
Assistant Director
Employess of a dress shop battle with a crooked gambler to get their jobs back.
There Is Another Sun
Assistant Director
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Assistant Director
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
Something in the City
Assistant Director
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
Paul Temple's Triumph
Assistant Director
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
The Cure for Love
Assistant Director
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
The Lost People
Assistant Director
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Assistant Director
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Lisbon Story
Assistant Director
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Appointment with Crime
Assistant Director
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Frenzy
Assistant Director
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
The Echo Murders
Assistant Director
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.