Cy Raker EndfieldFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1914 in Scranton, PA
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Cyril Raker Endfield
Biography:: South African-born Cy Endfield was educated at Yale and New York City's New Theater School. After a few terms as a drama teacher, Endfield came to Hollywood, where he worked as a writer. Shortly before his wartime service, Endfield was given his first chance to direct on MGM's Our Gang short...Read More

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Zulu Dawn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British Read More

1979
Universal Soldier

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: George Lazenby (of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Kentucky Fried Movie) stars in Universal Soldier. Lazenby plays an adventurer for hire who returns to London after several years of excitement. He tries to settle down to a "respectable" existence, but discovers he can't shake his past. Read More

1971
De Sade

Crew: Director

Actors: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch from American International Pictures -- purveyors of fine entertainment morsels for the connoisseur. The film takes place as an extended flashback after de Sade has escaped Read More

1969
Sands of the Kalahari

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: Stranded in the African wilds by a plane crash, a disparate group of passengers' worst enemy isn't weather or wild animals but a fellow traveler. A delayed flight causes several South African travelers to charter a small plane from unctuous pilot Sturdevan (Nigel Davenport). Among the group: Dr. Read More

1965
Zulu

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker Read More

1964
Hide and Seek

Crew: Director

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Janet Munro, Curd Jürgens, George Pravda, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: A professor of astronomy, David Garrett (Ian Carmichael), is involved with a highly confidential project to develop missiles. He runs into an old friend from the Soviet Union who is now the world chess champion. As David soon discovers, the champion is with a team working for sinister businessman Read More

1964
Mysterious Island

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular picturization in the hands of producer Charles Schneer, director Cy Endfield and special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. During the Civil War, several P.O.W.s led by Gary Merrill Read More

1961
Hard Drivers

Crew: Director

1960
Jet Storm

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
Sea Fury

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Gregoire Aslan, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel, while Stanley Baker is his second in command. The two men battle over the affections of South American beauty Luciana Paluzzi. Baker has the advantage, but Luciana's father Read More

1958
Hell Drivers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's Read More

1957
Child in the House

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman, Stanley Baker, Mandy Miller, Dora Bryan

Synopsis: In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to Read More

1956
Impulse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this thriller, a husband gets into all sorts of trouble when his wife takes a lengthy vacation without him. First he gets romantically involved with the chanteuse at a local nightclub. Next she tells him that her brother has gotten in trouble over some stolen diamonds. In truth, the woman Read More

1955
The Secret

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sam Wanamaker, Mandy Miller, Andre Morell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear. Just before he talks her into helping him, she is pushed off of a cliff. He becomes the prime Read More

1955
The Master Plan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: An American army officer is stationed in West Germany and assigned with keeping classified information out of the hands of the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to make it appear that he is a traitor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
The Limping Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips, Helene Cordet

Synopsis: His Hollywood career temporarily in the doldrums in 1953, Lloyd Bridges headed to Britain to star in The Limping Man. Bridges plays an ex-GI who arrives in London to visit his wartime amour (Moira Lister). Before anyone knows what's happened, our hero is mixed up in a murder case. The victim was Read More

1953
Tarzan's Savage Fury

Crew: Director

Actors: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles, Charles Korvin, Tommy Carlton

Synopsis: Lex Barker plays the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Savage Fury. Against his better judgment, Tarzan agrees to guide British government agents Edwards (Patric Knowles) and Rokov (Charles Korvin) into the land of the Wazuri Tribe, ostensibly to harvest uncut diamonds for national-defense purposes. Read More

1952
Colonel March Investigates

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff

Synopsis: This murder mystery is comprised of three pilot episodes of a British television series. The story centers around the odd cases that come into the Department of Queer Complaints at Scotland Yard. The protagonist is the head of the department and wears a black eye patch and cloak. His job is to Read More

1952
Try and Get Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke

Synopsis: The Sound of Fury is better known by its general release title, Try and Get Me. Based on Jo Pagano's novel The Condemned, the film recreates a dismal chapter in American history. In 1933, the otherwise peace-loving citizens of San Jose, CA, were stirred up by blind hatred into forming a mob and Read More

1950
The Underworld Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea

Synopsis: Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (Dan Duryea), who is in the pocket of a gangster (Howard da Silva). When he's fired by a big-city paper, the newsman buys an interest in a small-town weekly. It is while thus occupying that man Read More

1950
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch. Actually, Joe (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) goes no further than Monogram's cramped "ocean liner" standing set, but the audience doesn't really mind. The plot concerns a gang of Read More

1949
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Lina Romay, David Bruce, George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka, the soft-hearted pugilist created for the funny papers by Ham Fisher. This time, Joe is framed on a bum rap by a group of gamblers who hope to fix the outcome of an Read More

1949
Sleep, My Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Hazel Brooks, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris

Synopsis: This noir mystery thriller was produced by Mary Pickford and her husband Buddy Rogers, and directed by Douglas Sirk. Claudette Colbert stars as Alison Courtland, a wealthy New York socialite who awakens on a Boston-bound train with no memory of how she got there. A kindly older woman, Mrs. Read More

1948
The Argyle Secrets

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd, Jack Reitzen, John Banner

Synopsis: Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program originally heard on CBS' Suspense. In the immediate postwar years, several above-suspicion Americans attempt to hide their past collaborations with the Nazis. Reporter William Gargan Read More

1948
Stork Bites Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Gus Schilling, Emory Parnell, Stanley Prager

Synopsis: Stork Bites Man was the last of five short-length features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and former Columbia executive Ralph Cohn. Jackie Cooper plays Ernie, an apartment-house manager whose wife Peg (Gena Roberts) is several months Read More

1947
Hard-Boiled Mahoney

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of the many Bowery Boys movies, in this one Slip and Sach are mistaken for two private investigators and risk their lives trying to solve a missing persons mystery. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1947
Gentleman Joe Palooka

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1946
Mr. Hex

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jimmy Aubrey, Danny Beck, Billy Benedict, Sammy Cohen, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a carnival magician (Ian Keith), Sach becomes a powerful boxer. Head Bowery boy Slip (Leo Gorcey) parlays this talent into a lucrative ring career for Sach, culminating in the Read More

1946
Joe Palooka, Champ

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leon Errol, Elyse Knox, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before his boxing career took off. The story begins as he is discovered by Knobby Walsh, a keen-eyed manager. As Knobby trains Joe, gangsters intervene and attempt to insure that Read More

1946
Dancing Romeo

Crew: Director

Actors: Bobby Blake, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Janet Burston

Synopsis: Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) is in love with pretty ballet student Marilyn (Valerie Lee), but she is dedicated to her art. To win Marilyn's affections, Froggy tries to pass himself off as a master terpsichorean, with the assistance of the other gang members -- and a complicated Read More

1944
Tale of a Dog

Crew: Director

Actors: Bobby Blake, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Janet Burston, Cordell Hickman

Synopsis: MGM's Our Gang series had fallen into such disrepute by 1944 that the studio released the series' valedictory offering, Tale of a Dog, as an "MGM Miniature." This one begins as black youngsters Buckwheat (Billie Thomas) and Big Shot (Cordell Hickman) decide to give their dog Smallpox to the Our Read More

1944
Radio Bugs

Crew: Director

Actors: Bobby Blake, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Janet Burston, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: Inspired by the success of his favorite comedian Red Skelton, Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and a vast array of "funny" props, Froggy and the other gang members begin searching for a suitable radio sponsor, starting in the Read More

1944