Cyril Frankel (5)

Cyril Frankel (born 28 December 1921) is a retired British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He was born in Stoke Newington, London. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as The Avengers, and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Department S in 1969. In 1970, he directed "Timelash", an episode of UFO, which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites.

Frankel also directed many documentaries and feature films, including Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) and School for Scoundrels (1960; taking over from Robert Hamer, who was credited as sole director). One of his films, Man of Africa (1953) - the first film to feature a cast made up of relatively unknown black actors - was not released and was lost for some time. A complete copy has since been discovered and has been screened at a number of international film festivals.

In terms of documentaries, Frankel supervised some of the films that were broadcast for the BBC arts series Monitor (1958–65), among which was the first ballet programme to be filmed and edited to the choreography. Prior to his retirement, he became the ceramics expert for Bonhams auction house. A book, Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their Contemporaries - The Lisa Sainsbury Collection, was co-authored by Frankel and published in 2000. His memoir, Eye to Eye, was published by Bank House Books in 2009. wiki

CYRIL FRANKEL's has been a life, or perhaps a series of lives, dedicated to art and artists. Although he is best known by the television viewers of the world as director and creative force behind classic series, such as Gideon's Way, Department S, The Champions, Jason King, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), The Protectors and The Adventurer, this was but one aspect of a career that has spanned ballet, theatre, music - and an entirely separate, and equally successful, career as an expert in fine art and ceramics for major London auction houses, Christie's and Bonham's. In another of his lives, he was the director of a dozen or so feature films - among them the Ealing classic School for Scoundrels and, often cited as Hammer's best non-gothic film, Never Take Sweets From A Stranger. Universally appreciated and praised by his actors, he launched the film careers of both Richard Harris and Sean Connery and became the only trusted director of Hollywood legends Joan Fontaine and Ava Gardner. In latter years Cyril returned to making documentaries - this time on subjects close to his heart and passions: artists such as the world-renowned ceramicist Dame Lucie Rie, who had steadfastly refused to be filmed by anyone else - for the BBC's acclaimed Monitor series. His lifetime association with film had begun in documentaries, during the golden age of the Crown Film Unit - an association which led to what is perhaps the ne plus ultra of his many achievements: the first ever film with an all-black cast and a unique document of a lost culture, suppressed and presumed lost at the time, but now gloriously rediscovered, Man of Africa. Cyril's work and life are shot through with an underlying humour, a sense of humanity and a deep and unconventional spirituality - the honest and direct communication expressed in the title he chose for this book. It was this intangible quality that attracted me to his work and to my first attempts to get his story told. It is an honour for Bank House Books finally to be able to bring him 'eye to eye' with the world at large. Dave Randle Eye to Eye: A Memoir by Cyril Frankel (Author)

Director (37 credits)
1990 Eine Frau namens Harry
1984 Misterio (TV Series) (1 episode)
1983 Legend of the Champions (TV Movie)
1983 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) (2 episodes)
1979 El regreso del Santo (TV Series) (2 episodes) )
1979 The Saint and the Brave Goose
1975 El hombre que decidía la muerte
1972-1974 Los protectores (TV Series) (4 episodes)
1971-1973 Ovni (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1972-1973 El aventurero (TV Series) (13 episodes)
1971-1972 Jason King (TV Series) (12 episodes)
1969-1970 Department S (TV Series) (9 episodes)
1969-1970 El detective fantasma (TV Series) (6 episodes)
1968-1969 Los invencibles del Némesis (TV Series) (10 episodes)
1968 Los vengadores (TV Series) (1 episode)
1966 El templo del hampa
1966 Las brujas (The Witches)
1964-1966 Gideon's Way (TV Series) (6 episodes)
1966 El barón (TV Series) (4 episodes)
1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie)
1963 Al borde del abismo
1961 Operación Snafu
1961 Entre sin llamar
1960 Mi abogado defensor
1960 School for Scoundrels (uncredited)
1960 Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1959 Alive and Kicking
1958 She Didn't Say No!
1957 No Time for Tears
1956 Man of Africa
1956 Es grande ser joven
1955 Make Me an Offer
1954 Devil on Horseback
1952 Nutcracker (Documentary short)
1950 Eagles of the Fleet (Documentary short)
1950 From the Ground Up (Documentary short)
1950 Underwater Story (Documentary short)
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Enlaces completados:
OK Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (Cyril Frankel, 1960)
OK Permission to Kill (Cyril Frankel, 1975)
OK The Trygon Factor (Cyril Frankel, 1966)
OK The Witches (Cyril Frankel, 1966)

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