Alun Owen Filmography

Born:: November 24, 1925 in Liverpool, England
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:: British screenwriter Alun Owen co-wrote the script for the 1964 Beatles classic film A Hard Day's Night and won an Oscar nomination for his efforts. He also co-scripted The Concrete Jungle (1960). He started out as an actor, with a small role in Men Are Children Twice (1953). He appeared in his...Read More

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A Hard Day's Night

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell

Synopsis: During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Working within a tight $500,000 budget, director Richard Lester turned out A Hard Day's Night in a fast 6 1/2 weeks; the picture was in the theatres Read More

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The Servant

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey

Synopsis: Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master. Suggesting that the house could use a little fixing up, Bogarde nearly bankrupts Fox with expensive Read More

1963
In the Wake of a Stranger

Actors: Tony Wright, Shirley Eaton, Danny Green, Harry H. Corbett, Willoughby Goddard

Synopsis: An unfortunate sailor (Tony Wright) gets implicated in a murder he never committed in this confusing drama by David Eady. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and Read More

1960
The Criminal

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk responsible for "laundering" the stolen money insists upon a bigger percentage of the Read More

1960
Jet Storm

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Braden, Diane Cilento

Synopsis: In this airborne disaster movie, a has-been brilliant scientist plants a bomb on a transatlantic jet to exact revenge upon a passenger whom he blames for his daughter's death -- she died during a plane crash. When the booby-trap is discovered and the passengers learn the motive for the scientists' Read More

1959
I'm All Right Jack

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. Unlike others in his social circle, Stanley wants to work. When he tries out Read More

1959
Men Are Children Twice

Synopsis: Handel's "Messiah" becomes a bone-of-contention in a tiny Welsh community in this comedy. The trouble begins when the choirmaster chooses a new contralto to sing the solo. Unfortunately, this leaves out the soloist who has sung the part for the past 15 years. This precipitates a family feud the Read More

1953