Leslie Bricusse Filmography

Victor/Victoria

Crew: Lyricist

Actors: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York

Synopsis: This filmed stage production of Victor/Victoria came to be through the collaboration of director Blake Edwards and his wife, singer and actress Julie Andrews. Andrews reprises her role as a female pretending to be a male who is impersonating a female, while Edwards once again directs. As with the Read More

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Peter Scolari, Stephanie Zimbalist

Bullseye!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Deborah Barrymore, Mark Burns

Synopsis: A hectic caper flick with farcical overtones, Bullseye! doesn't quite hit the....oh, you know. Government scientist Michael Caine and his titled pal Roger Moore plan to auction off a cold fusion formula to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, a pair of con artists-also played by Caine and Read More

My Stepmother Is an Alien

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Seth Green, Juliette Lewis, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher

Synopsis: An astrophysicist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is actually a disguised extraterrestrial in this high-concept comedy. Dan Aykroyd plays Steven Mills, a dedicated and harmlessly odd scientist researching ways to send radio signals to deep space. Unbeknownst to him, one of his experiments Read More

That's Life!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: Blake Edwards co-wrote and directed this seriocomedy about a couple of rich and famous Malibuans forced to re-examine their lives and values during a weekend party celebrating the husband's 60th birthday. Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews star as Harvey and Gillian Fairchild. Harvey is a successful Read More

Babes in Toyland

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Eileen Brennan, Richard Mulligan, Keanu Reeves

Synopsis: While Walt Disney's 1961 filmization of Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland pales in comparison to the 1934 movie version starring Laurel & Hardy, the Disney film is an unqualified classic when compared to the ill-starred 1986 TV version. Adapted for television by playwright Paul Zindel, the 1986 Read More

Victor/Victoria

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras

Synopsis: On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria (Julie Andrews) is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy (Robert Preston). What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male impersonator? Better still: what if she becomes a male Read More

Sunday Lovers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Robert Webber, Catherine Salviat, Gene Wilder, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to Read More

Hart to Hart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jill St. John, Lionel Stander, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 25, 1979, Hart to Hart was the pilot film for a series which officially debuted three days earlier. Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers play the fabulously wealthy, blissfully happy married couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart. He's a conglomerate CEO, she's a mystery Read More

The Revenge of the Pink Panther

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Burt Kwouk

Synopsis: In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens his long-suffering boss Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sharpens his wits and martial skills with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk) and foils the bad guys without ever having a clue Read More

Sammy Stops the World

Crew: Book Author, Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Dennis Daniels, Donna Lowe, Marian Mercer

Synopsis: Sammy Davis, Jr. basically plays tribute to himself in this version of Anthony Newly's Broadway/screen musical Stop the World--I Want to Get Off. As in that earlier show, this production started out as a stage show and as the tale progresses, the camera seldom moves. The story centers around a Read More

Superman: The Movie

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Aubrey Woods

Synopsis: Promoted as a family musical by Paramount Pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is more of a black comedy, perversely faithful to the spirit of Roald Dahl's original book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding Read More

Scrooge

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, Scrooge features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit "Thank You Read More

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr. Chips as a musical, the end result is not altogether displeasing. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Robert Donat role of Arthur Chipping (originally Charles Chipping), a young by-the-book schoolmaster at a Read More

Sweet November

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr de Benning, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: Sarah Deever (Sandy Dennis) is an idealistic young woman living in Brooklyn. Her altruistic nature finds her taking in visitors for a month at a time to help them in their time of need. Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) is her latest reclamation project, a cardboard-box factory worker and owner of an Read More

A Guide for the Married Man

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

In Like Flint

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee

Synopsis: Derek Flint (James Coburn) is back in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to Our Man Flint. Flint's boss Cramden (Lee J. Cobb) assigns him to stop a group of felonious females on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the world; the bad femmes are kidnapping astronauts and replacing them Read More

Doctor Dolittle

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull

Synopsis: Rex Harrison, although not at all like the portly man described in Hugh Lofting's charming series of children's stories, is sheer perfection as the kindly animal doctor in Leslie Bricusse's musical fantasy Doctor Dolittle. Sadly, Harrison is the only thing nearing perfection in this overstuffed Read More

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Tanner, Millicent Martin, Leila Croft, Neil Hawley

Synopsis: The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization. Newley stars as Littlechap, whose allegorical rise to success is countered by the instability of his private life. Like the play, the film is staged Read More

Penelope

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

Three Hats for Lisa

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Sidney James, Una Stubbs, Peter Bowles

Synopsis: In this musical, two youngsters are thrilled to meet their favorite Italian movie star and end up spending a day squiring her about London. The star is a little eccentric and asks them to steal some hats for her collection. The star-struck youths agree until they learn that she wants a bobby's Read More

Goldfinger

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, Shirley Eaton, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Read More

The Very Edge

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Nicole Maurey, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: This melodramatic tale of a sexual assault on a married woman has a few implausible moments but is believably acted by Anne Heywood as Tracey, the victim, Richard Todd as her husband Lawrence, and Jack Hedley as the man from Scotland Yard sent to track down the violent attacker. Tracey is pregnant Read More

Judy Garland: Judy Garland & Friends

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the legendary singer and actress performs a number of songs, several of them collaborations with up-and-comer Barbra Streisand, grand dame Ethel Merman, and Garland's own daughter Read More

The Swingin' Maiden

Crew: Screenwriter

Bachelor of Hearts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Miles Malleson, Jeremy Burnham, Peter Myers, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Bachelor of Hearts stars Hardy Kruger as Wolf, a German exchange student attending Cambridge University. Initially arousing the distrust and disdain of his classmates (WWII was, after all, only thirteen years in the past), the affable Wolf slowly wins them over. He also finds romance in the lovely Read More

Charley Moon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Max Bygraves, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin, Florence Desmond, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: Reginald Arkell's backstage novel Charley Moon made a successful transition to the screen in 1956. Comic actor Max Bygraves stars as Moon, a small-time music-hall performer with an eye for the ladies. A string of lucky breaks, and a little bit of ruthlessness on Charley's part, allows him a chance Read More