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William Rose

William Rose

William Rose was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, and travelled to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, while the US was still neutral, in order to join up and fight the Nazis. This took him to Britain, where he decided to stay after the war.  

He spent his demobilisation money on a course in screenwriting, and then became a writer of British and American comedies such as Ladykillers, Genevieve, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, as well as more serious films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. 

He retired to Jersey, where he died in 1987 at the age of 72.

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Movies Made By William Rose (22)

Dhamaal (2007)

Four friends meet an underworld don who, on his deathbed, clues them in on hidden treasure buried in Goa. The group race towards Goa, not knowing that their plans will soon be foiled, albeit hilariously, by a police officer, who is also after the money. ...

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The Ladykillers (2004)

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman. ...

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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)

Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute. ...

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The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army. ...

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black. ...

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The Flim-Flam Man (1967)

Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed "M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Double-Dealing," has made a career out of charming and cheating his way through life. Played with devilish charm by George C. Sco ...

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the isl ...

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

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Davy (1958)

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios. ...

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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for th ...

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The Man in the Sky (1957)

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-pro ...

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The Ladykillers (1955)

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. ...

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Touch and Go (1955)

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning. ...

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The 'Maggie' (1954)

The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of t ...

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Genevieve (1953)

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home. ...

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Gift Horse (1952)

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Frase ...

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Bachelor in Paris (1952)

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle. ...

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I'll Get You for This (1951)

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer. ...

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My Daughter Joy (1950)

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik. ...

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Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer. ...

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Esther Waters (1948)

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then Willia ...

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Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (1986)

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus. ...

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