Derick Williams

Derick Williams

After graduating from Nottingham University, Williams started work as assistant cameraman on Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929). He subsequently advanced through the ranks to become the head of Gainsborough's camera department in the early 1930s. Headed his own production company in the 1950s.

  • Title: Derick Williams
  • Popularity: 0.1222
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1906-04-11
  • Place of Birth: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Eric Williams
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Derick Williams Movies

  • 1963
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    Seventy Deadly Pills

    Seventy Deadly Pills

    6 1963 HD

    A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.

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  • 1946
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    Beware of Pity

    Beware of Pity

    6.5 1946 HD

    A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.

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  • 1943
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    The Gentle Sex

    The Gentle Sex

    7 1943 HD

    During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

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  • 1949
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    For Them That Trespass

    For Them That Trespass

    5 1949 HD

    In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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  • 1939
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    Inspector Hornleigh

    Inspector Hornleigh

    7.4 1939 HD

    When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

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  • 1947
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    White Cradle Inn

    White Cradle Inn

    6.2 1947 HD

    This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't.

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  • 1939
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    Ask a Policeman

    Ask a Policeman

    7.4 1939 HD

    The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.

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  • 1929
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.538 1929 HD

    London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

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  • 1930
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    Juno and the Paycock

    Juno and the Paycock

    4.6 1930 HD

    In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

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  • 1948
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    My Brother Jonathan

    My Brother Jonathan

    6.6 1948 HD

    Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

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  • 1935
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    Dark World

    Dark World

    1 1935 HD

    British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.

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  • 1933
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    The Lucky Number

    The Lucky Number

    4 1933 HD

    A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

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  • 1945
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    The Way to the Stars

    The Way to the Stars

    6.1 1945 HD

    Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

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  • 1942
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    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve

    6.8 1942 HD

    The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

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  • 1956
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    Old Silas

    Old Silas

    1 1956 HD

    A part of Strange Experiences

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  • 1956
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    Grandpa's Portrait

    Grandpa's Portrait

    1 1956 HD

    A part of Strange Experiences

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  • 1968
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    On the Run

    On the Run

    1 1968 HD

    The story of the attempted kidnapping of the son of a visiting African potentate.

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  • 1955
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    Halloween Party

    Halloween Party

    1 1955 HD

    A part of Strange Experiences

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  • 1956
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    The Laughing Clown

    The Laughing Clown

    1 1956 HD

    A part of Strange Experiences

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  • 1943
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    The Flemish Farm

    The Flemish Farm

    5.6 1943 HD

    Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.

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  • 1955
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    The Pickpocket

    The Pickpocket

    1 1955 HD

    Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a pickpocketer named Chippy Criggs.

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  • 1956
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    Safe and Sound

    Safe and Sound

    1 1956 HD

    Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a burglar Squishy Taylor that tried to blow up his safe.

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  • 1956
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    The Inveterate Gambler

    The Inveterate Gambler

    1 1956 HD

    Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a burglar who lost money due to him gambling on it and now he's trying to get that money back.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.

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