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Ernest Morris

Director
Ernest Morris (17 October 1913 – 17 September 1987) was an English film and television director. He began his film career in 1932 as an assistant director. As a director the majority of his output comprised second features.

17-10-1913

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

London, England, UK

Place of Birth

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Creative career

actor

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producer

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director

49 Works

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other

11 Works

The Return of Mr. Moto

The Return of Mr. Moto

Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
4.0

Year:

1965

Five Have a Mystery to Solve

Five Have a Mystery to Solve

Four cousins meet a new friend who has strange powers over all the animals on Whispering Island. After discovering the crusader's treasure, they are imprisoned in a flooded dungeon.
0.0

Year:

1964

Whispering Island

Whispering Island

Four children go to stay in a cottage near the sea where they meet Wilfred, an orphan who can attract animals by playing his pipe. They explore a nearby island for treasure and find the owner is being robbed by his gamekeepers. Brought before Sir Hugo the children convince him of their story but the gamekeepers lock them all up. They find a secret passage leading to the legendary crusader treasure and also find their way back to the castle. Again they are caught and left in a dungeon flooded at high tide. Wilfred plays his pipe and a badger appears showing them the way out. The tables are finally turned: the gamekeepers are handed over to the police and Sir Hugo decides to adopt Wilfred.
0.0

Year:

1964

The Secret Door

The Secret Door

0.0

Year:

1964

High Tide

High Tide

0.0

Year:

1964

The Castaways

The Castaways

0.0

Year:

1964

Shadow of Fear

Shadow of Fear

An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.
5.0

Year:

1963

Echo of Diana

Echo of Diana

When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
5.2

Year:

1963

The Sicilians

The Sicilians

An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Mafia boss who has spilled the beans back in the States.
5.5

Year:

1963

Masters of Venus

Masters of Venus

A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet Venus, and encounters a race of beings that the crew begins to suspect are descended from the lost city of Atlantis.
4.0

Year:

1962

What Every Woman Wants

What Every Woman Wants

A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands
0.0

Year:

1962

Night Cargoes

Night Cargoes

In the 19th century a group of children is mixed up in local smuggling thinking it is just an exciting game. But they find out how serious it is and help to round up the villains.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Secret Panel

The Secret Panel

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

Trapped in the Tunnel

Trapped in the Tunnel

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventativ e officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited wit h the father
0.0

Year:

1962

Richard Knows Too Much

Richard Knows Too Much

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Spanish Sword

The Spanish Sword

A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.
0.0

Year:

1962

Three Spare Wives

Three Spare Wives

A man inherits a harem of three wives from his late uncle, which he brings home to his real wife in England. British comedy from 1962.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Mystery of the Ruined Abbey

The Mystery of the Ruined Abbey

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Escape in the Coach

The Escape in the Coach

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Smugglers' Pony

The Smugglers' Pony

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Wounded Stranger

The Wounded Stranger

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Last Cargo

The Last Cargo

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.
0.0

Year:

1962

The Court Martial of Major Keller

The Court Martial of Major Keller

Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
0.0

Year:

1961

Tarnished Heroes

Tarnished Heroes

According to the officer's handbook, 'an officer will perform whatever task confronts him with whatever men are available' and for Major Bell the men in question are drunks, thieves and deserters. With the German army closing in on his company's position, Major Bell undertakes a suicidal mission to blow up a bridge of strategic importance to the enemy. His only help will come in the form of a rag-tag band of army rejects who must become heroes if they are to fulfil their mission and come back alive.
0.0

Year:

1961

Highway to Battle

Highway to Battle

Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
0.0

Year:

1961

Strip Tease Murder

Strip Tease Murder

The unusual death of a dancer at the Flamingo Club prompts the dancer's husband to dig deeper into the case. What he uncovers is a tangled web of blackmail, drug trafficking, and mad science.
0.0

Year:

1961

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe's classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-stricken librarian Edgar Marsh becomes infatuated with his next-door neighbor, but when he can't have her, he resorts to murder.
5.9

Year:

1960

Night Train for Inverness

Night Train for Inverness

A 7-year old boy with diabetes is kidnapped by his estranged ex-con father, who doesn't know about his son's medical condition and that he will need insulin injections. Meanwhile the police search for the missing boy.
5.3

Year:

1960

Transatlantic

Transatlantic

An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.
0.0

Year:

1960

Operation Stogie

Operation Stogie

Lost Danziger's comedy starring John Hewer, Anton Rodgers, Susan Stephen and Peter Illing.
0.0

Year:

1959

Three Crooked Men

Three Crooked Men

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
5.0

Year:

1958

On the Run

On the Run

An ex-boxer on the run from gangsters for refusing to throw a fight, helps a garage owner and his daughter to improve their business.
0.0

Year:

1958

A Woman of Mystery

A Woman of Mystery

UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.
4.0

Year:

1958

Son of a Stranger

Son of a Stranger

A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
0.0

Year:

1958

Three Sundays to Live

Three Sundays to Live

Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the crime, and singer Ruth Chapman can provide him with an alibi. But Ruth is missing, and records show she died years before. As Frank awaits execution, he enlists the help of his heiress girlfriend and his lawyer to clear his name.
5.0

Year:

1957

The Betrayal

The Betrayal

Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
6.0

Year:

1957

Profile

Profile

The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then he's accused of embezzling funds.
5.7

Year:

1954

The Devil’s Jest

The Devil’s Jest

An aristocratic widow discovers that her former lover, a medical officer in the British army, is secretly a German spy.
3.0

Year:

1954

Roadhouse Girl

Roadhouse Girl

A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
4.9

Year:

1953

Death Goes to School

Death Goes to School

Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
5.4

Year:

1953

Tread Softly

Tread Softly

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
5.0

Year:

1952

Paul Temple Returns

Paul Temple Returns

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
5.6

Year:

1952

The Big Frame

The Big Frame

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
3.8

Year:

1952

The Astonished Heart

The Astonished Heart

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
4.5

Year:

1950

Marry Me

Marry Me

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
4.3

Year:

1949

Portrait from Life

Portrait from Life

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
5.9

Year:

1948

Broken Journey

Broken Journey

A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
6.0

Year:

1948