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Producer 1913 - 1999

John Woolf

London, England, UK

Filmography

Every title this person produced

11 titles
The Odessa File

The Odessa File

Ronald Neame 1974 2h 10m 5.8

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander.

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

Fred Zinnemann 1973 2h 23m 7.9

An assassin targets the president of France in this tense Frederick Forsyth thriller.

Oliver!

Oliver!

Carol Reed 1968 2h 33m 6.0

Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

Life at the Top

Life at the Top

Ted Kotcheff 1965 1h 57m

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark.

The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room

Bryan Forbes 1962 2h 6m

Leslie Caron plays a young, pregnant, unmarried Frenchwoman who takes a room in a seedy boarding house in London. She soon makes friends with Toby, a struggling writer who lives downstairs, and eventually gets to accept her room and the strange characters in the house. But what to do about her baby? And what to do about Toby?

Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Jack Clayton 1959 1h 55m 7.2

British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by James Woolf and John Woolf.

The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young

Lewis Gilbert 1954 1h 40m 6.0

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris

Gordon Parry 1953 1h 42m 6.0

A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

John Huston 1953 1h 35m 5.0

The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.

The African Queen

The African Queen

John Huston 1951 1h 45m 7.7

The first World War in the middle of Africa’s nowhere. The missionary Rose Sayer convinces the captain of the African Queen to go down a river in order to capture a German ironclad carrying homemade torpedoes.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Albert Lewin 1951 2h 4m 7.6

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

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