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Lindsay Shonteff est un Réalisateur, Scénariste et Producteur Canadien né le 5 novembre 1935 à Toronto (Canada)

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Nom de naissance Lindsay Craig Shonteff
Nationalité Canada
Naissance 5 novembre 1935 à Toronto (Canada)
Mort 11 mars 2006 (à 70 ans)

Lindsay Craig Shonteff (5 November 1935-11 March 2006) was a Canadian born film director, film producer and screenwriter who achieved fame for low-budget films produced in England.

Biographie

Lindsay Shonteff was born in Toronto, Ontario and made his directing, producing, editing and screenwriting debut in 1959 with a Canadian made Western The Hired Gun/The Last Gunfighter that he edited in his own home. After the film's release, Shonteff went to England following his friend fellow Canadian Sidney J. Furie.

Shonteff's English debut was Devil Doll (1964) that Furie was originally scheduled to direct. Furie was offered a more prestigious film so recommended his fellow Canadian Shonteff. Richard Gordon said Furie advised Shonteff throughout the making of the film. Shonteff had to re-edit the horror tale of a ventriloquist's dummy to avoid an X rating from the British Board of Film Censors.

This film led to interest from Columbia Pictures for a contract but Shonteff argued over the matter and the contract did not come through.

Shonteff then filmed the "African horror adventure" Curse of Simba/Curse of the Voodoo for Richard Gordon again starring Bryant Haliday with outdoor sequences filmed in Regents Park in London.

In 1965 Shonteff co-wrote and directed a James Bond type film for producer S.J.H. "James" Ward Licensed to Kill with Tom Adams as agent Charles Vine. The film was picked up for American and international release by Joseph E. Levine; re-edited and retitled The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World with a new title song written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen and performed by Sammy Davis Jr. The American publicity campaign for the James Bond exploitation film echoed the 'Number 2, but tries harder' advertising of the Avis Rent a Car System prevalent at the time. Reportedly Shonteff was offered a contract by 20th Century Fox but disagreed on conditions. Adams reprised Charles Vine in two more films without his Mauser C96 or Shonteff though Shonteff collaborated again with producer James Ward in Run With the Wind with Francesca Annis in 1966.

Shonteff directed Harry Alan Towers's The Million Eyes of Su-Muru with Shirley Eaton and George Nader based on a story by Sax Rohmer the following year.

In 1970 Shonteff directed the cult film Permissive which explored the ruthless world of the 'groupie'.

With the publicity battle between the rival James Bonds of Albert R. Broccoli's The Spy Who Loved Me and Kevin McClory's projected James Bond of the Secret Service in 1976, Shonteff returned to the secret agent fold with his superspy now calling himself Charles Bind in Number One of the Secret Service (with Nicky Henson) that was originally titled 008 of the Secret Service, Licensed to Love and Kill (with Gareth Hunt) (1979) and Michael Howe in Number One Gun (1990). Shonteff also directed Len Deighton's Spy Story in 1976 and filmed How Sleep the Brave, a Vietnam war filmed in England in 1981.

Shonteff died on the last day of production of his final film Angels, Devils, and Men.
When Lindsay Shonteff died, he was married to his wife of over 44 years Christina Shonteff.

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Filmographie de Lindsay Shonteff (11 films)

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Réalisateur

How Sleep the Brave, 1h30
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Guerre
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Thomas M. Pollard, Billy Campbell
Note57% 2.8647852.8647852.8647852.8647852.864785
During the Vietnam War of Christmas 1969, a group of fresh young American soldiers who arrive at an army camp in Vietnam are sent to patrol in a nearby jungle. Once they have killed a few Viet Cong soldiers and losing a couple of their comrades in the battle, they return to camp. They are now sent on a mission, which is to destroy a Viet Cong village. After they destroy the village, they embark on a hazardous journey through a jungle to board a helicopter and return to camp. But, it's only a matter of who will survive the Viet Cong's gunshots and make it to the helicopter.
Adieu Canaille, 1h34
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Action
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Gareth Hunt, Nick Tate, Geoffrey Keen, Don Fellows, John Arnatt, Toby Robins
Note44% 2.2172152.2172152.2172152.2172152.217215
Un agent secret britannique envoyé aux USA pour sauver un aristocrate se dresse contre un génie du crime qui remplace les gens dans des postes importants par des sosies qui exécuteront ses funestes projets.
No. 1 of the Secret Service, 1h31
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Action, Policier
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Nicky Henson, Richard Todd, Aimi Macdonald, Geoffrey Keen, Dudley Sutton, Sue Lloyd
Note46% 2.3402252.3402252.3402252.3402252.340225
Eccentric Arthur Loveday decides to do his bit for world peace by having influential financiers assassinated. With regular law enforcement agencies powerless to prevent their deaths, Her Majesty's Government sends in their top agent Charles Bind who is licensed to kill.
Zapper's Blade of Vengeance
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Genres Action
Acteurs Linda Marlowe, Alan Lake, Noel Johnson, Peter Halliday, David Robb
Note52% 2.6333252.6333252.6333252.6333252.633325
Harriet Zapper est une femme aux talents de combattante uniques : elle est spécialiste du maniement de l'épée et peut pratiquer le karaté, la boxe et le judo. Et elle porte deux revolvers magnum .357 pour une protection supplémentaire. Lorsqu'une série d'assassinats sanglants a lieu, elle doit retrouver le cerveau derrière ces crimes. Elle se retrouve dans le sud de la France, dans un nid de corruption, de trahison et de meurtre...
On m'appelle Zapper, 1h32
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Action, Aventure
Acteurs Linda Marlowe, Richard Monette, Jack May, William Hootkins, John Salthouse, Carl Forgione
Note47% 2.3973152.3973152.3973152.3973152.397315
Harriet Zapper est une femme détective privé. Un vieil homme l'emploie pour qu'elle lui retrouve ses enfants disparus.
Permissive
Permissive (1970)

Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Note53% 2.6626152.6626152.6626152.6626152.662615
Suzy (Maggie Stride) arrives in London with nowhere to stay. She meets a friend, Fiona (Gay Singleton), a groupie who has settled into a relationship with Lee (Alan Gorrie), bass player and singer with the band Forever More. At first Suzy is just one of many girls who follow the groups and make themselves sexually available to musicians and their hangers-on (a type represented by Forever More's road manager Jimmy, played by Gilbert Wynne). When the band go on tour she is left behind. For some time she lives on the streets with Pogo (Robert D'Aubigny, credited as "Robert Daubigny"), a gentle hippie drifter who is eventually killed in a road accident.
The Million Eyes of Sumuru, 1h35
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Action, Aventure, Espionnage, Policier
Thèmes Espionnage, La musique, Musique
Acteurs Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Maria Rohm, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski
Note36% 1.8211.8211.8211.8211.821
Un playboy (Frankie Avalon) et un agent de la CIA (George Nader) sauvent les hommes du monde de Sumuru qui prévoit la domination du monde en ayant son armée sexy féminine éliminer les leaders masculins et les remplacer par ses agents féminins.
Curse Of The Voodoo, 1h17
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale
Acteurs Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Mary Kerridge, John Witty
Note38% 1.910691.910691.910691.910691.91069
When White hunter Mike Stacey kills a lion in Simbazi country in Africa, he is cursed by the tribal chief. When the curse that manifests itself with hallucinations follows him to England he consults an expert on the subject. The expert informs Stacey the only way to remove the curse is to return to Africa and personally kill the man who put it on him.
Licensed to Kill, 1h36
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Comédie, Action, Aventure, Espionnage
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Tom Adams, Karel Štěpánek, Sammy Davis Jr., Veronica Hurst, Peter C. Bull, John Arnatt
Note58% 2.9075452.9075452.9075452.9075452.907545
Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his daughter seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles Vine (Tom Adams), a former mathematician, as a bodyguard and exterminator.
La Poupée diabolique, 1h21
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Jeu, La musique, Musique, Jouet
Acteurs Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Štěpánek, Sadie Corré
Note48% 2.4026752.4026752.4026752.4026752.402675
À Londres, le reporter américain Mark English et sa petite amie Marianne Horn assistent au spectacle du grand Vorelli, un hypnotiseur et ventriloque accompagné de sa marionnette Hugo. Mais celle-ci semble être vivante et mobile. Alors que Marianne est choisie pour un numéro d'hypnose, English souhaite écrire une histoire sur ce magicien aux pouvoirs incroyables et sa poupée capable de bouger et parler sans qu'il la manipule. Sous l'influence de Mark, Marianne invite Vorelli à venir au bal de charité de sa tante, ce qu'il accepte.

Scénariste

No. 1 of the Secret Service, 1h31
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Action, Policier
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Nicky Henson, Richard Todd, Aimi Macdonald, Geoffrey Keen, Dudley Sutton, Sue Lloyd
Note46% 2.3402252.3402252.3402252.3402252.340225
Eccentric Arthur Loveday decides to do his bit for world peace by having influential financiers assassinated. With regular law enforcement agencies powerless to prevent their deaths, Her Majesty's Government sends in their top agent Charles Bind who is licensed to kill.
Licensed to Kill, 1h36
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Comédie, Action, Aventure, Espionnage
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Tom Adams, Karel Štěpánek, Sammy Davis Jr., Veronica Hurst, Peter C. Bull, John Arnatt
Note58% 2.9075452.9075452.9075452.9075452.907545
Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his daughter seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles Vine (Tom Adams), a former mathematician, as a bodyguard and exterminator.

Producteur

No. 1 of the Secret Service, 1h31
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Action, Policier
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Nicky Henson, Richard Todd, Aimi Macdonald, Geoffrey Keen, Dudley Sutton, Sue Lloyd
Rôle Associate Producer
Note46% 2.3402252.3402252.3402252.3402252.340225
Eccentric Arthur Loveday decides to do his bit for world peace by having influential financiers assassinated. With regular law enforcement agencies powerless to prevent their deaths, Her Majesty's Government sends in their top agent Charles Bind who is licensed to kill.
La Poupée diabolique, 1h21
Réalisé par Lindsay Shonteff
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Jeu, La musique, Musique, Jouet
Acteurs Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Štěpánek, Sadie Corré
Rôle Producteur
Note48% 2.4026752.4026752.4026752.4026752.402675
À Londres, le reporter américain Mark English et sa petite amie Marianne Horn assistent au spectacle du grand Vorelli, un hypnotiseur et ventriloque accompagné de sa marionnette Hugo. Mais celle-ci semble être vivante et mobile. Alors que Marianne est choisie pour un numéro d'hypnose, English souhaite écrire une histoire sur ce magicien aux pouvoirs incroyables et sa poupée capable de bouger et parler sans qu'il la manipule. Sous l'influence de Mark, Marianne invite Vorelli à venir au bal de charité de sa tante, ce qu'il accepte.