Clive Donner
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Clive Donner (21 January 1926 – 7 September 2010) was a British film director.
Donner was born in London and began his career as a director in the mid-1950s after working as a film editor (most notably on the comedy Genevieve, made in 1953). In addition, he was the editor on the Alastair Sim Christmas classic Scrooge (1951). His best regarded work is generally thought to be the satire on the British class system Nothing But the Best (1964), starring Alan Bates and Denholm Elliott.
Donner also frequently worked on TV on various series and TV films, notably Rogue Male (1976), featuring Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim, and such series as Sir Francis Drake and Danger Man.
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Selected filmography
- The Purple Plain (1954)
- The Secret Place (1957)
- Heart of a Child (1958)
- Some People (1962)
- The Caretaker (1963)
- Nothing But the Best (1964)
- What's New Pussycat? (1965)
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967)
- Luv (1967)
- Alfred the Great (1969)
- Vampira (1974)
- The Nude Bomb (1980)
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
- A Christmas Carol (1984)
- Arthur the King (1985)
- Stealing Heaven (1988)
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