British film director, producer and screenwriter (1908–1994)
Sidney Gilliat
Born
(1908-02-15)15 February 1908
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died
31 May 1994(1994-05-31) (aged 86)
Wiltshire, England
Occupations
Film director
producer
writer
Spouse
Beryl Brewer (1910–1981)
Children
2
Relatives
Amanda Eliasch (granddaughter)
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.
In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama Millions Like Us (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with The Rake's Progress, which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950).
He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera Our Man in Havana, based on the novel by Graham Greene. He had also worked on the film.[citation needed]
SidneyGilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably...
producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with SidneyGilliat. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as...
Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by SidneyGilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1939 short story Report on a Fugitive...
Gilliat, British banker Martin Gilliat, British soldier Richard Gilliat, English cricketer Rosemary Gilliat, Canadian photojournalist SidneyGilliat,...
Progress SidneyGilliat 1946 I See a Dark Stranger Frank Launder a.k.a. The Adventuress 1946 Odd Man Out Carol Reed 1946 Green for Danger SidneyGilliat 1947...
and Basil Radford. The characters were created by Frank Launder and SidneyGilliat. The duo became very popular and were used as recurring characters in...
Only Two Can Play is a 1962 British comedy film directed by SidneyGilliat starring Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling and Virginia Maskell. The screenplay...
Howard. It was written and produced by the team of Frank Launder and SidneyGilliat, with Launder directing. It's 1937, in a tiny rural village in Ireland...
Moore Marriott and Eric Portman. It was co-written and co-directed by SidneyGilliat and Frank Launder. According to the British Film Institute database...
Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by SidneyGilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel...
as Dulcimer Street) is a British film released in 1948, directed by SidneyGilliat, and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on...
it was adapted into an opera by Malcolm Williamson to a libretto by SidneyGilliat, who had worked on the film. In 2007, it was adapted into a play by...
Withers Dec 1945 The Rake's Progress Independent Producers SidneyGilliat Launder & Gilliat Rex Harrison Comedy; hit 1945 Here Comes the Sun John Baxter...
another big hit. Also popular was The Rake's Progress (1946), directed by SidneyGilliat. Harrison received an offer from 20th Century Fox to star in Anna and...
several of Reed's films in this period were written by Frank Launder and SidneyGilliat, with the screenwriters and director working for producer Edward Black...
Boulting Brothers and Frank Launder and SidneyGilliat. Kneale met with SidneyGilliat to discuss the scripts but Gilliat was reluctant to buy the rights as...
Her mother, opera singer Caroline Gilliat, left him in 1962. She is the daughter of film director SidneyGilliat. She returned to England when she was...
Only Two Can Play (1962) co-starring Peter Sellers and directed by SidneyGilliat, and The Witches (1990), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book directed...
film, directed by SidneyGilliat, is based on Leslie Baily's The Gilbert and Sullivan Book, and Baily co-wrote the screenplay with Gilliat. Shot in Technicolor...
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