List of British films of 1969

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1969 (see 1969 in film):

## 1969

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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The Adding Machine | Jerome Epstein | Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller | Drama |
Alfred the Great | Clive Donner | David Hemmings, Michael York | Historical |
Anne of the Thousand Days | Charles Jarrott | Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Anthony Quayle | Historical | Academy Award winner
The Assassination Bureau | Basil Dearden | Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Curt Jürgens | Black comedy |
Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Robert Shaw | World War II |
The Bed Sitting Room | Richard Lester | Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore | Comedy |
Before Winter Comes | J. Lee Thompson | David Niven, Topol | Drama |
The Best House in London | Philip Saville | David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet | Comedy |
The Body Stealers | Gerry Levy | George Sanders, Maurice Evans | Sci-fi |
Bronco Bullfrog | Barney Platts-Mills | Del Walker, Anne Gooding | Drama |
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? | Anthony Newley | Anthony Newley, Connie Kreski | Comedy |
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | James Hill | Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors | Fantasy | Based on novel by Jules Verne
Carry On Again Doctor | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Sid James | Comedy |
Carry On Camping | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams | Comedy |
The Chairman | J. Lee Thompson | Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood | Thriller |
Crooks and Coronets | Jim O'Connolly | Telly Savalas, Edith Evans | Comedy |
Crossplot | Alvin Rakoff | Roger Moore, Claudie Lange | Thriller |
Dance of Death | David Giles | Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan | Drama |
David Copperfield | Delbert Mann | Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, Robin Phillips | Drama |
Doppelgänger | Robert Parrish | Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry | Sci-fi |
The File of the Golden Goose | Sam Wanamaker | Yul Brynner, Charles Gray | Thriller |
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones | Horror |
Guns in the Heather | Robert Butler | Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke | Family | Co-production with the US
Hamlet | Tony Richardson | Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins | Literary drama | Adaptation of Shakespeare's play
Hannibal Brooks | Michael Winner | Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard | World War II |
The Haunted House of Horror | Michael Armstrong | Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth | Horror |
I Start Counting | David Greene | Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall | Thriller |
In Search of Gregory | Peter Wood | Julie Christie, Michael Sarrazin | Romance |
The Italian Job | Peter Collinson | Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill | Action/comedy | Number 36 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
Kes | Ken Loach | David Bradley, Lynne Perrie | Drama | Number 7 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Last Shot You Hear | Gordon Hessler | Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker | Thriller |
Laughter in the Dark | Tony Richardson | Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina | Drama |
Leo the Last | John Boorman | Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw | Drama |
Lock Up Your Daughters! | Peter Coe | Christopher Plummer, Susannah York | Comedy |
Lola (Twinky) | Richard Donner | Charles Bronson, Susan George | Comedy |
The Magic Christian | Joseph McGrath | Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers | Comedy |
Man of Violence | Pete Walker | Michael Latimer, Luan Peters | Crime |
Monte Carlo or Bust! | Ken Annakin | Terry-Thomas, Tony Curtis | Comedy |
Moon Zero Two | Roy Ward Baker | James Olson, Catherine Schell | Sci-fi |
Mosquito Squadron | Boris Sagal | David McCallum | World War II |
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly | Freddie Francis | Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor | Horror/comedy |
A Nice Girl Like Me | Desmond Davis | Barbara Ferris, Harry Andrews | Comedy |
Night After Night After Night | Lindsay Shonteff | Jack May, Justine Lord | Crime/horror | [1]
The Oblong Box | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee | Horror |
Oh! What a Lovely War | Richard Attenborough | John Mills, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith | World War I/musical |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas | Spy/action |
Play Dirty | André de Toth | Michael Caine, Nigel Green | World War II | Filmed in Spain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Ronald Neame | Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin | Drama | Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role.
The Promise | Michael Hayes | John Castle, Ian McKellen | Drama |
A Promise of Bed | Derek Ford | Victor Spinetti, Vanessa Howard | Comedy |
The Reckoning | Jack Gold | Nicol Williamson, Ann Bell | Drama |
Rhubarb | Eric Sykes | Eric Sykes, Harry Secombe | Comedy | Short film
Ring of Bright Water | Jack Couffer | Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna | Drama |
The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Irving Lerner | Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer | Adventure |
Run Wild, Run Free | Richard C. Sarafian | John Mills, Mark Lester | Family |
Sandy the Seal | Robert Lynn | Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch | Family | Filmed in South Africa in 1965
Sinful Davey | John Huston | John Hurt, Pamela Franklin | Comedy |
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know | Robert Hartford-Davis | Maureen Lipman, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Mower | Drama |
Some Girls Do | Ralph Thomas | Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi | Spy |
The Southern Star | Sidney Hayers | George Segal, Ursula Andress | Adventure |
Staircase | Stanley Donen | Rex Harrison, Richard Burton | Drama | Co-production with the United States
A Talent for Loving | Richard Quine | Richard Widmark, Topol, Geneviève Page | Comedy/western | Co-production with the United States
Taste the Blood of Dracula | Peter Sasdy | Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford | Horror |
Three Into Two Won't Go | Peter Hall | Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson | Drama | Entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival
Till Death Us Do Part | Norman Cohen | Warren Mitchell
Dandy Nichols | Comedy |
A Touch of Love | Waris Hussein | Sandy Dennis
Ian McKellen | Drama | Entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival
Twenty-Nine | Brian Cummins | Alexis Kanner, Susan Hunt, Robert Lang, Justine Lord | Drama  | Short film
Two Gentlemen Sharing | Ted Kotcheff | Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson | Drama |
The Virgin Soldiers | John Dexter | Hywel Bennett, Nigel Patrick, Lynn Redgrave | Drama |
Walk a Crooked Path | John Brason | Tenniel Evans, Faith Brook | Crime |
What's Good for the Goose | Menahem Golan | Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson | Comedy |
Where's Jack? | James Clavell | Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele | Crime |
Women in Love | Ken Russell | Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden | Literary drama | Adapted from the book by D H Lawrence; Number 87 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films. Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Zeta One | Michael Cort | James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey | Comedy/sci-fi |

## Most Popular Films of the Year

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Based on survey of more than 1,600 cinemas according to Motion Picture Herald.[2]

Top special reserved ticket attraction of the year:

* Oliver!

Top four films:

* Carry on Camping
* Carry on up the Khyber
* The Love Bug
* Til Death Do Us Part

Next ten most successful films in general release (in alphabetical order):

* Baby Love
* Bullitt
* Candy
* Half a Sixpence
* The Italian Job
* Mayerling
* Oh, What a Lovely War
* Shalako
* Three into Two Won't Go
* The Virgin Soldiers

## See also

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* 1969 in British music
* 1969 in British radio
* 1969 in British television
* 1969 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Night, After Night, After Night | 1969".
2. ^ "US Actor is Top Star". Daily Telegraph. 30 December 1969.

## External links

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* British films of 1969 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
* Arborfield Studios
* BBC Film
* Big Talk Studios
* British Lion Films
* DNA Films
* DNEG
* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
* Film4 Productions
* Framestore
* Goldcrest Films
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* S4C
* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
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* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
* Halas and Batchelor
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
* Holmfirth Studios
* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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* British New Wave
* Horror films of Britain
* Documentary Film Movement
* Ealing comedies
* Free Cinema
* Kitchen sink realism
* Gainsborough melodramas

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* British Academy of Film and Television Arts
* British Board of Film Classification
* British Film Institute
* BFI National Archive
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* British Society of Cinematographers
* Children's Film Foundation
* Cinema Exhibitors' Association
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