Gilbert, Lewis 1920-

Overview

Works:	221 works in 1,354 publications in 9 languages and 10,727 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Spy films Action and adventure films Film adaptations Thrillers (Motion pictures) Comedy films Romantic comedy films Science fiction films War films Detective and mystery films
Roles:	Director, Producer, Author of screenplay, Author, fmd, Performer, Adapter, Film editor, Restager , Scenarist, Conductor, Composer, Conceptor, Other
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Lewis Gilbert

Flashbacks by Lewis Gilbert( Book )
All my flashbacks by Lewis Gilbert( Book )

Most widely held works by Lewis Gilbert

The spy who loved me by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

121 editions published between 1977 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 1,737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agent 007 joins forces with a beautiful Russian agent to battle a mad genius, multi-millionaire shipping magnate Karl Stromberg. Stromberg plans to destroy the earth and rebuild it underwater, and is in possession of an ultra-sensitive submarine tracking system which he seems to be offering to the highest bidder. After he captures a British submarine, Bond's job is to recover the tracking device and free the submarine

Moonraker by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

173 editions published between 1979 and 2016 in 9 languages and held by 1,675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agent 007's mission is to find the Moonraker, a space shuttle that has been stolen while enroute to England from the United States. Bond's travels take him from California to Italy, and on to Brazil where he uncovers Drax's evil space scheme

You only live twice by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

109 editions published between 1967 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 1,602 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

WW III nearly breaks out when a U.S. space capsule is swallowed up by what everyone believes is a Russian spaceship. Bond and the British government believe that it is the work of the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and must find out what their motives are

Educating Rita by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

98 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed into a free spirit, Frank is forced to confront his own life

Alfie by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

76 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 979 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young man in 1960s London is a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about

Shirley Valentine by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

56 editions published between 1989 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 875 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An English housewife, bored with her life, goes on a vacation with a friend to Greece and finds that there's more to life than just dishes and laundry when she has a fling with a handsome man

Sink the Bismarck! by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

28 editions published between 1960 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck destroyed. The captain's tireless efforts are abetted by the love and support of a female naval officer. The climactic sinking is deftly assembled from stock footage and newly shot scenes of expertly delineated scale models

Damn the defiant!( Visual )

15 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in English and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A ship's commander must battle a sadistic subordinate officer, a mutinous crew, and Napoleon's fleet

Haunted by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

13 editions published between 1995 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When David Ash investigates a haunting at an isolated country manor, strange and horrifying occurrences lead him to first doubt his convictions and then his sanity

Carve her name with pride by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

17 editions published between 1957 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, a young British widow of a French officer, who braved death while working for the French Resistance in World War II

The adventurers by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

8 editions published between 1970 and 2013 in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

If there's a vice or deceit that doesn't roll across the screen as you watch this Harlod Robbin's extravaganza, just wait a few minutes! Candice Bergen, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour and more star in The Adventurers, an irresistible mega-movie directed by Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, Moonraker) and loaded with all the trappings and treacheries, power plays and passions, intrigues and in-fighting of the world's super-rich. At the center of the jet-setting story is troubled playboy Dax (Bekim Fehmiu of Black Sunday). Raised far from his South American homeland of Corteguay amid the high society and political intrigue of Italy, Dax uses romance as a stepping stone to success ... and all the while schemes to bring vengeance on those who once wronged him and his family. Let the adventure begin

Stepping out by Lewis Gilbert( Visual )

10 editions published between 1991 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mavis Turner, ex-Broadway dancer and enthusiastic teacher, has the challenge of her life: preparing a mismatched group of seven women and one man to perform at a charity gala

Goldfinger by Ian Fleming( Visual )

5 editions published between 2000 and 2016 in English and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bond tries to save the world from starting WWIII, in this thriller set in the splendor of Japan

The 7th dawn( Visual )

4 editions published between 1964 and 2010 in English and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An American ex-soldier and an Englishwoman try to save a Malayan woman accused of terrorism during a Communist insurrection in 1953

Reach for the sky by Jim Henson( Visual )

39 editions published between 1954 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The amazing story of Douglas Bader, who after losing both legs as a result of an aeroplane crash, overcame insurmountable odds to not only master the art of walking with two artificial legs, but to dance, play golf, and to become one of the most remarkable fighter aces in history

James Bond 007( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thunderball (1965, 125 min.): Agent 007 travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust but not before he feeds Bond to his killer sharks. -- You only live twice (1967, 117 min.): Bond meets up with diabolical Ernst Stavro BLofeld, who has hijacked US and Soviet spaceships. 007 must undertake a pulse-pounding race to prevent nuclear war between the superpowers with the fate of the world hanging in the balance -- Diamonds are forever (1971, 120 min.): While investigating the diamond market underworld, Bond elicits the help of a beautiful diamond smuggler to fight his evil nemsis, Blofeld, who is stockpiling the gems to create a deadly laser satellite that can destroy the world

Operation: daybreak( Visual )

5 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mission: Assassinate SS Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich, the diabolical murderer William L. Shirer called 'the genius of the Final Solution'. Witness furious Nazi reprisals, including the annihilation of Lidice. Marvel at the bold last stand of seven patriots. Know these seven were real people in a real time. Ordinary people by everyday standards. Heroes by every other measure

Cast a dark shadow( Visual )

19 editions published between 1955 and 2015 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bogarde plays a money-grabbing wife-killer who marries Lockwood

Sean Connery 007 collection( Visual )

2 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thunderball: Agent 007 travels to Nassau to track down the criminal Emilio Largo, who is threatening the world with a nuclear holocaust

Roger Moore ultimate James Bond 007 edition( Visual )

2 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spy who loved me: "Nobody does it better than Bond, and he proves it yet again in this explosively entertaining adventure that takes him from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase in pursuit of a megalomaniac out for world denomination."--Container