Lewis Gilbert
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Lewis Gilbert (Britain, 1920), born Louis Isaacs,
a child actor in the itinerant musichall circuit of the 1930s,
became assistant of Hitchcock in 1939 and made war documentaries during the Second World War.
His firm narrative film was The Little Ballerina (1947)
and then scripted
Terence Fisher's
comedy
Marry Me (1949).
He then became a prolific director, dishing out two or three movies per year,
specializing in war dramas but perhaps obtaining better results with noir films
such as
Cosh Boy (1953), adapted from
Bruce Walker's
play,
The Good Die Young (1954),
adapted from
Richard Macaulay's
novel,
and especially
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), adapted from Janet Green's play "Murder Mistaken" (1952).
His best war movies were Reach for the Sky (1956) and Sink the Bismarck! (1960). He then directed the comedy Alfie (1966), adapted from Bill Naughton's 1963 play, and Friends (1971), whose soundtrack became Elton John's namesake album. He also directed three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989) were adaptations of stage plays by Willy Russell.
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