Jack Clayton Filmography

Born:: March 1, 1921 in Brighton, Sussex, England
Occupation:: Associate Producer, Director, Producer
Biography:: An employee of London Films in his teens, British director Jack Clayton became a film editor in the years just prior to World War II. Once in His Majesty's Service, Clayton rose to the rank of unit commander for the RAF's film division. After the war, Clayton went to work as a production manager...Read More

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Memento Mori

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephanie Cole, Renée Ashershon, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the British TV drama Memento Mori boasts an impressive cast of veterans, including Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack, Sir Michael Hordern, Renee Ashershon, and Maggie Smith. The story concerns an eccentric group of senior citizens who Read More

1992
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Crew: Director

Actors: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice

Synopsis: Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a middle-aged "maiden lady" piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. Timid and self-deprecating, Judith permits herself to yearn over her new boarding-house neighbor, hotel entrepreneur Bob Hoskins. Hoskins thinks that Judith has enough money to bankroll his latest Read More

12/23/87
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Crew: Director

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More

1983
The Great Gatsby

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby Read More

1974
Our Mother's House

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin, Louis Sheldon Williams, John Gugolka

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde is a no-good rotter who returns to his family after several years' absence. Only his seven children are present to greet Bogarde as he enters his shabby London home, and they're somewhat vague as to the whereabouts of the mother. What Bogarde doesn't know is that his wife had died Read More

1967
The Pumpkin Eater

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling screenwriter (Peter Finch). When success spins Finch's head around, he begins to dally with women other than his wife. Meanwhile, Bancroft is forced to stay home and play "domestic Read More

1964
The Innocents

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde

Synopsis: In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take care of Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles (Martin Stephens), the wealthy household's two Read More

1961
Room at the Top

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Ambrosine Phillpotts

Synopsis: Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with Read More

1959
The Whole Truth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna Maria Canale, Michaél Shillo

Synopsis: In this mystery, a movie producer gets bored with his wife and begins an affair with a fiery actress. In the end, he jilts his mistress and returns to his wife. The trouble begins when someone stabs the actress and he is labelled the prime suspect by a detective. Later the producer discovers that Read More

1958
The Story of Esther Costello

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson, Ron Randell

Synopsis: Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll relish every bite in the meantime. Joan Crawford plays a well-meaning woman who throws herself whole-hog into every charitable cause that comes down the pike. She is Read More

1957
Three Men in a Boat

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Tomlinson, Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular British comedian Jimmy Edwards, up-and-coming leading man Laurence Harvey and stalwart character actor David Tomlinson. Escaping their dull weekday pursuit, the three pals Read More

1957
Panic in the Parlour

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Caine, Peggy Mount, Cyril Smith, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert (Ronald Lewis) plans to get married to a gal named Shirley (Shirley Eaton). On the day of the ceremony, Albert gets cold feet when he discovers that Shirley's gorgonlike mother Read More

1956
Dry Rot

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this comedy three bookies attempt to win back their recent losses by kidnapping the favored horse and substituting it with a heavily drugged nag. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
I Am a Camera

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl

Synopsis: Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in pre-Hitler Berlin, the film details the curious, chaste relationship between Sally, an entertainer at a bawdy nightclub, and fledgling writer Christopher Isherwood (Lawrence Read More

1955
The Good Die Young

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland

Synopsis: The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) hopes to use his share of the haul to bring his British wife to the US. Professional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) finds himself unable to work Read More

1954
Beat the Devil

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

1953
The Bespoke Overcoat

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nikolai Gogol's classic short story The Overcoat was adapted for British consumption into The Bespoke Overcoat. Comic actor Alfie Bass plays a clothing-store clerk who'd like to own one of the sales items in his store. He is denied this pleasure by his hardhearted boss, so the clerk persuades a Read More

1952
Moulin Rouge

Crew: Producer

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district Read More

1952
The Thief of Bagdad

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain execution, by Abu (Sabu), a young thief who has made his Read More

1940
Dark Red Roses

Actors: Stewart Rome, Frances Doble, Kate Cutler

Synopsis: This drama centers around a love triangle between an English sculptor, his wife, and a cellist. The story is set during the 1920's in an English suburb. The trouble begins when the sculptor begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair with a famed cellist. In reality they are only friends. Read More

1930