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Frank Launder (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.
He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as a clerk before becoming an actor and then a playwright. He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr Porter! (1937). After writing a number of screenplays with Gilliat, including The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and Night Train to Munich for Carol Reed; the two men wrote and directed the wartime drama Millions Like Us (1943).
After founding their own production company Individual Pictures, they produced a number of memorable dramas and thrillers including I See a Dark Stranger (1945) and Green for Danger (1946), but were best known for their comedies including The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and most famously, the St Trinians series, based on Ronald Searle's cartoons set in an anarchic girls school. He was married to actress Bernadette O'Farrell from 1950 until his death in Monaco. The couple had two children.
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Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in ...
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On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel i...
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Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent...
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When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...
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Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides...
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In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a...
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Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to b...
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The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hoc...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fortune Is a Woman (1957) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 2 | The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 3 | The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 4 | The Blue Lagoon (1949) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 5 | The Rake's Progress (1945) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 6 | Millions Like Us (1943) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 7 | Kipps (1941) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 8 | Night Train to Munich (1940) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 9 | The Lady Vanishes (1938) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 10 | Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937) | Director / Writer | 4 |
