Cyril Frankel

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Cyril Frankel (born December 28, 1921 in Stoke Newington , London , † June 7, 2017 ) was a British film , television and theater director .

Life

Cyril Frankel's film debut Man of Africa (also known as Kigusi Story ), shot in 1953, was nominated for the 1954 Cannes Film Prize, but was only released in cinemas in the United States years later . Cyril Frankel's repertoire included comedies , dramas , crime films , agent thrillers and also horror films .

His television career began in 1965 with six episodes for the crime series Gideon's Way, which is very popular in the English-speaking area, and until 1986 he shot episodes for twelve different television series , some of which were also appreciated in the German-speaking area: No pardon for Guardian Angels , UFO , Gene Bradley on a secret mission , Jason King , Randall & Hopkirk - Detective Agency with Spirit , With Umbrella, Charm and Melon or The Baron . After the harsh pans of the sex reassignment comedy A woman named Harry with Thomas Gottschalk , he withdrew from the film business.

Frankel also regularly directed stage productions, for example at Vienna's English Theater .

Filmography

  • 1953: Man Of Africa (Kigusi Story)
  • 1954: Make Me an Offer
  • 1954: Little Man with Big Plans (Devil On Horseback)
  • 1956: It's Great To Be Young
  • 1957: No Time For Tears
  • 1958: She Didn't Say No!
  • 1959: Never Take Sweets From a Stranger
  • 1959: Alive and Kicking
  • 1960: Come in without knocking (Don't Bother To Knock)
  • 1960: reason for divorce: love
  • 1961: Das Schlitzohr (On the Fiddle or Operation Snafu)
  • 1962: The Very Edge
  • 1966: The Secret of the White Nun (The Trygon Factor)
  • 1966: The Devil Dances at Midnight (The Witches)
  • 1971: The Panther of Soho (The Man in the Looking Glass)
  • 1975: Permission To Kill
  • 1983: Legend of the Champions
  • 1990: A woman named Harry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directors UK - News - Remembering Cyril Frankel. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Henry Cobbold on Twitter: "Cyril Frankel died this afternoon aged 95 - so much beauty created and so many lives touched, across the world and across time ... amazing. ..." In: twitter.com. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ See the list of productions ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Vienna's English Theater ; Retrieved February 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.englishtheatre.at
personal data
SURNAME Frankel, Cyril
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film, television and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke Newington , London
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2017