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Bryan Forbes CBE (/ f ɔːr b z /; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" [1] and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".
Bryan Forbes (1926-2013) was a British filmmaker who worked on The Guns of Navarone, The Slipper and the Rose, and The Stepford Wives. He was also an actor, writer, and director, and was nominated for an Oscar for The Whisperers.
May 9, 2013 · The British film-maker was a "giant of cinema" who worked with Richard Attenborough and Kenneth Branagh. He also wrote novels, acted in films and was a friend of the Queen Mother.
Bryan Forbes was a British actor, writer, and director who worked on films such as The Guns of Navarone, The Whisperers, and Seance on a Wet Afternoon. He was married to Nanette Newman and had multiple sclerosis, which he claimed to have cured with a gluten-free diet.
May 9, 2013 · Bryan Forbes, an English film director best known for “The Stepford Wives,” the 1975 Hollywood thriller about women transformed into docile electronic incarnations of themselves, has died at his...
May 8, 2013 · The British filmmaker, who also wrote novels and was a friend of the Queen Mother, passed away in Surrey after a long illness. He was known for his horror classics, such as The Stepford Wives and Whistle Down The Wind, and his involvement in the National Youth Theatre.
Bryan Forbes, an East End boy with a love of cinema who went on to become one of the best-known names in British film after directing Whistle down the Wind and The Stepford Wives, died yesterday.