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John Bryan

John Bryan

John Bryan (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969) was an art director and film producer.

John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1964. Bryan also won a BAFTA for Becket.

In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Movies Made By John Bryan (38)

Great Catherine (1968)

When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitab ...

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After the Fox (1966)

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold. ...

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Becket (1964)

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church. ...

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The Girl on the Boat (1962)

Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his ...

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The Horse's Mouth (1958)

Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pa ...

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Windom's Way (1957)

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions. ...

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The Secret Place (1957)

A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery. ...

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The Spanish Gardener (1956)

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship ...

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The Purple Plain (1954)

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squa ...

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The Million Pound Note (1954)

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, p ...

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The Magic Box (1952)

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a ...

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love. ...

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Madeleine (1950)

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman. ...

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Golden Salamander (1950)

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right. ...

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The Passionate Friends (1949)

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband. ...

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Blanche Fury (1948)

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blan ...

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Take My Life (1947)

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit. ...

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Great Expectations (1946)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold ...

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Caravan (1946)

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman fo ...

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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra. ...

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The Wicked Lady (1945)

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways. ...

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Love Story (1944)

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting i ...

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Two Thousand Women (1944)

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France. ...

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Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies s ...

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Time Flies (1944)

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Rale ...

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The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

British Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of C ...

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Dear Octopus (1943)

Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies. ...

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Millions Like Us (1943)

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a rela ...

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On the Night of the Fire (1939)

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder. ...

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Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, insi ...

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Stolen Life (1939)

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry ...

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Pygmalion (1938)

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous ...

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Talking Feet (1937)

An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to ...

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The Last Curtain (1937)

An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery. ...

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The Captain's Table (1936)

A passenger is murdered on board an ocean going liner and suspicion falls all too neatly upon her husband. ...

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Murder by Rope (1936)

Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder. ...

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Sunshine Ahead (1936)

'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic. ...

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Colonel Blood (1934)

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon. ...

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