Guy Hamilton

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-09-16

Deathday 2016-04-20 (93 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Guy Hamilton

Biography

Mervyn Ian ​Guy Hamilton, DSC (September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016) was an English film director. Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance. After the end of the war, he worked as an assistant to Carol Reed on films including The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), before turning to directing with his first film The Ringer in 1952. He made 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four installments of the James Bond series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming. He was married at one time to actress Naomi Chance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Hamilton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

1989
1982
Evil Under the Sun

as Director

1980
The Mirror Crack'd

as Director

1978
1973
Live and Let Die

as Director

1971
1969
Battle of Britain

as Director

1966
Funeral in Berlin

as Director

1965
The Party's Over

as Director

1964
Goldfinger

as Director

1964
Man in the Middle

as Director

1961
1960
A Touch of Larceny

as Director

1959
1957
Manuela

as Director

1956
Charley Moon

as Director

1955
The Colditz Story

as Director

1954
An Inspector Calls

as Director

1953
The Intruder

as Director

1952
The Ringer

as Director

1952
Home at Seven

as Assistant Director

1952
The African Queen

as Assistant Director

1950
State Secret

as Assistant Director

1950
The Angel with the Trumpet

as Assistant Director

1949
The Forbidden Street

as Assistant Director

1949
The Third Man

as Assistant Director

1948
The Fallen Idol

as Assistant Director

Writer

1960
1957
Manuela

as Writer

1955