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Guy Hamilton (born 16 September 1922) is an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
Hamilton was born in Paris on 16 September 1922, where his English parents were living. His first exposure to the film industry came in 1938 when he was the clapper board boy at the Victorine Studios in Nice.
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Hamilton returned to London and worked in the film library at Paramount News before joining the Royal Navy.
Shortly after the war, Hamilton returned to the film industry as an assistant director on two Carol Reed films: 1948's The Fallen Idol and 1949's The Third Man (Hamilton acted as Orson Welles's double for a couple of the long shots). Hamilton held Reed in high esteem and it was Reed who was instrumental in getting Hamilton his first director position on the B-movie The Ringer in 1952.
Hamilton spent the early part of the 1950s creating films focused on military stories such as 1953's film The Intruder (his second film as director) dealing with returning soldiers to civilian life and 1955's prisoner of war The Colditz Story (which was to be Hamilton's high grossing movie of the 1950s).
Actors: Peter Weir (director), Michael Murphy (actor), Peter Weir (writer), Maurice Jarre (composer), Sigourney Weaver (actress), Jaime de la Rosa (miscellaneous crew), Joonee Gamboa (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Joel Lamangan (actor), Bembol Roco (actor), Linda Hunt (actress), Mel Gibson (actor), Terry Ryan (costume designer), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), William M. Anderson (editor),
Plot: Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Guy soon is the hottest reporter on the story with the help of his photographer, half- Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan, who has gone native. Guy's affair with diplomat Jill Bryant also helps. Eventually Guy must face some major moral choices and the relationship between Billy and him reaches a crisis at the same time the politics of Indonesia does.
Keywords: 1960s, accordion, actress-playing-male-role, airplane, airport, anti-asian, australia, bagpipes, banner, barActors: Arthur Ashley (actor), Robert Elliott (actor), Alec B. Francis (actor), Charles K. Gerrard (actor), Johnny Hines (actor), Edward Kimball (actor), Alice Brady (actress), William A. Brady (miscellaneous crew), William A. Brady (miscellaneous crew), Harley Knoles (writer), Harley Knoles (director), Lila Chester (actress), Louis R. Grisel (actor), Isabel Berwin (actress), Dwight Tilton (writer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Come lay down at the edge
Come lay down at the broken edge
Come lay down at the feet of angels
Eyeing you in a northern sky
Come lay down at the end
Come lay down where the times suspended
Come lay down and hear the voices
Calling you from a northern sky
Follow me and don't look down You're alright
Come with me and forget you're high
It's alright in all
Your eyes are open and singing
Your eyes are open
And not quite breathing
Your eyes are open
You're seeing things
That I can't see as hard as I try
Follow me and don't look down
You're alright
Come with me forget you're high
It's alright
And alright,
Don't look down
Keep your eyes off the ground
So afraid
These days will fall
Like tears down your face
Follow me and don't look down
You're alright
Come with me forget you're high
It's alright
And alright,
Follow me don't look down
You're alright
Come with me forget you're high