Bryan Forbes

Also Credited As:

John Theobald Clarke, Truk Thrust
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Biography

A short story writer and journalist, he received his first screenwriting credit on Jose Ferrer's "The Cockleshell Heroes" (1955), although he previously had made uncredited contributions to "The Black Knight" (1954) and "An Alligator Named Daisy" (also 1955). With Richard Attenborough, Forbes formed the production company Beaver Films in 1959, and their initial offering was "The Angry Silence" (1960), for which Forbes won a British Film …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Other

Born

July 22, 1926

LATEST CREDITS

The Baby and the Battleship

Professor

December Flower

Harry Grey

Satellite in the Sky

Actor

Enemy From Space

Marsh

The League of Gentlemen

Martin Porthill

An Inspector Calls

Eric Birling

I Am a Dancer

Narration

The Key

Weaver

The World in His Arms

Actor

The Guns of Navarone

Cohn

Restless Natives

Tourist

The Man With a Million

Todd

A Shot in the Dark

Charlie--Locker Attendant at Camp Sunshine

The Angry Silence

Actor

Hell, Heaven or Hoboken

Young Lt., Actor

The L-Shaped Room

Actor

The Stepford Wives

Actor

The Raging Moon

Reading Title Quotation

Of Human Bondage

Medical Student

The Last Man to Hang

Actor

The Slipper and the Rose

Herald

International Velvet

Announcer at Olympia, Director

First Among Equals

Derek Spencer