John RonaneFilmography

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The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law

Synopsis: This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
That's Your Funeral

Actors: David Battley, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley, John Ronane

Synopsis: Bill Fraser and Raymond Huntley star in the raucous British farce That's Your Funeral. Fraser and Huntley play Bullstrode and Holroyd, rival undertakers. The animosity between the two is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares. David Battley and John Ronane Read More

1974
A War of Children

Actors: Vivien Merchant, Jenny Agutter, John Ronane, Anthony Andrews, Danny Figgis

Synopsis: The War of Children is an uncomfortably realistic TV drama of the latter-day "troubles" in Ireland. The tension is magnified by the decision to film many of the key scenes in battle-scarred Belfast, with the crew dodging bullets all down the line. These sequences were seamlessly blended with Read More

1972
Nobody Ordered Love

1971
Avengers: Take Me To Your Leader

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Patrick Barr, Patrick Newell, Michael Robbins

Synopsis: Several agents and innocent bystanders find themselves at the mercy of a talking briefcase, which barks out orders to deliver it to such-and-such an address, lest it explode and kill its bearer. It turns out that the briefcase contains secret documents, to be delivered to the other side's "Mr. Read More

1969
The Touchables

Actors: Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson, Marilyn Richard, Kathy Simmonds, David Anthony

Synopsis: Somebody at 20th Century-Fox must have been asleep at the switch when the studio picked up the British The Touchables for American distribution. This listless melodrama concerns a British rock star (David Anthony) with a love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation. The tables are turned when four cute young Read More

1968
Sebastian

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, John Gielgud, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Susannah York. The film dwells upon Sebastian's rather lax morals (even by 1968 standards), culminating Read More

1968
Some May Live

Synopsis: In this war drama, an Army intelligence officer stationed in Saigon labors to discover the identity of the double-agent in his department who has been sending classified information to the Soviets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Avengers: Murdersville

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Colin Blakely, John Ronane, Ronald Hines

Synopsis: A motor excursion with a childhood friend turns deadly for Emma when she arrives at the remote community of Little Storping in the Swuff. It soon turns out that every one of the local residents is a professional assassin. Assuming that Emma has been brought to the village as a potential victim Read More

1967
La Mujer de Otro

Actors: Martha Hyer, John Ronane, Analia Gade, Angel del Pozo, Fosco Giachetti

Synopsis: Ana Maria (Martha Hyer) feels ignored by her wealthy husband when he constantly has his mind on business. She turns her attention to former flame Andres (John Ronane), a successful artist with a wife of his own. Andres wants to rekindle the old romance, and Ana Maria is willing until her long-lost Read More

1967
Charlie Bubbles

Actors: Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Timothy Garland

Synopsis: Albert Finney both directs and stars in the "alienation" comedy-drama Charlie Bubbles. The eponymous Bubbles (Finney) is a trendy and fabulously wealthy novelist. Indulged at every turn, and able to indulge in his wildest fancies, Charlie is bored by his privileged existence. He staves off ennui Read More

1967
How I Won the War

Actors: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran

Synopsis: Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a cold, dark look at the Good War, World War II. In adapting Patrick Ryan's 1963 novel, screenwriter Charles Wood and director Richard Lester offered a narrative fractured by Read More

1967
King Rat

Actors: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Todd Armstrong

Synopsis: James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for Read More

1965
Rattle of a Simple Man

Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Michael Medwin, Charles Dyer

Synopsis: This is a somewhat sensitive story of a virgin 39-year-old British soccer fan who goes to a bar with a bunch of his pals and is goaded into betting that he can sleep with the sassy waitress. What he doesn't know is that she overhears the bet and decides to call better's bluff. They take off to her Read More

1964
The Silent Playground

Actors: Roland Curram, Bernard Archard, Jean Anderson, Ellen McIntosh, John Ronane

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Stanley Goulder directed this disturbing thriller which was shot independently at a budget of $75,000 in only twenty-four days. The film deals with a mentally retarded boy, released from the hospital prematurely, who wants to make friends with some neighborhood kids at the Read More

1964
A Kind of Loving

Actors: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, James Bolam, Bert Palmer, Leonard Rossiter, Gwen Nelson

Synopsis: This well-wrought romance takes place in Lancashire, England in an industrial area where Vic (Alan Bates) and Ingrid (June Ritchie) work in the same factory. He is a draftsman who wants only a physical relationship with the woman of his choice (Ingrid), and she is a typist who wants true love with Read More

1962
Dr. Blood's Coffin

Actors: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Fred Johnson, Kenneth J. Warren

Synopsis: Between his internship in Canadian television and his A-feature work on The Ipcress File, Sidney J. Furie directed an old-fashioned horror flick called Doctor Blood's Coffin. Kieron Moore stars as research scientist Dr. Peter Blood, who's been experimenting with heart transplants. Thrown out of Read More

1961
Mary Had a Little

Actors: Agnes Laurent, John Bentley, Hazel Court, John Maxim

Synopsis: A strange bet provides the basis of this comedy, a British theater producer decides to make some easy money by betting a psychiatrist, whom he overheard telling a colleague that he could create the perfect child by hypnotizing a pregnant woman, that the shrink has as many holes in his theory as he Read More

1961