Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer.[1] He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry.[2] Amongst the films he directed were The Lady Craved Excitement (1950), One Way Out (1955) and It All Goes to Show (1969).[3]
Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1972.
Selected filmography[edit]
- A Girl in a Million (1946)
- Things Happen at Night (1947)
- Man in Black (1949)
- Celia (1949)
- A Case for PC 49 (1951)
- Cloudburst (1951)
- Love's a Luxury (1952)
- Never Look Back (1952)
- Profile (1954)
- Undercover Girl (1958)
- The Diplomatic Corpse (1958)
- Freedom to Die (1961)
- Ticket to Paradise (1961)
- Gaolbreak (1962)
- Emergency (1962)
- Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
- Night of the Prowler (1962)
- The Marked One (1963)
- Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (1966) (short)
- The Pale Faced Girl (1968) (short)
- Talk of the Devil (1968) (short)
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1968) (short)
- It All Goes to Show (1969) (short)
- A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971) (short)
- A Couple of Beauties (1972) (short)
References[edit]
- ^ "Francis Searle". Archived from the original on 5 March 2018.
- ^ "Francis Searle". IMDb.
- ^ "Francis Searle - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
External links[edit]
- Francis Searle at IMDb
- "The British Entertainment History Project | Francis Searle |". historyproject.org.uk.