Direction: Leslie Norman

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Leslie Norman. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Avengers (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills

Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson

Synopsis TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman. Starring...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Persuaders! (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Basil Dearden · David Greene

Cast Tony Curtis · Roger Moore · Laurence Naismith · Juliet Harmer

Synopsis English Lord Brett Sinclair and American Danny Wilde are both wealthy playboys, they are teamed together by Judge Fullton to investigate crimes which the police can't solve. These two men are complete opposites, but become great friends through their adventures...

6.5

228 votes

6.5

228 votes

Dunkirk

1958 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast John Mills · Robert Urquhart · Ray Jackson · Meredith Edwards

Synopsis One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across the...

6.3

111 votes

6.3

111 votes

The Saint (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers

Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces everywhere. A smooth-talking adventurer, the Saint goes in where angels...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Night My Number Came Up

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream in which another of those present, a senior Royal Air...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

X: The Unknown

1956 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman · Joseph Losey

Cast Dean Jagger · Edward Chapman · Leo McKern · Anthony Newley

Synopsis Radioactive mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village during the 1950's.

5.5

198 votes

5.5

198 votes

Return of the Saint (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman · Peter Sasdy · Jeremy Summers · Charles Crichton

Cast Ian Ogilvy · Norman Eshley · Edward Brayshaw · John Hallam

Synopsis Simon Templar is a modern day Robin Hood of sorts. He steals from rich criminals and keeps the loot for himself (usually in such a way as to put the rich criminals behind bars). He's dashing, suave, charming, and he's...

5.2

52 votes

5.2

52 votes

4.6

165 votes

Department S (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · John Gilling · Ray Austin · Paul Dickson

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Joel Fabiani · Rosemary Nicols · Dennis Alaba Peters

Synopsis TV Series (1969-1970). 28 episodes. An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherited those cases which the other member groups had failed to solve. The brains of the group was Jason King, a hedonistic maverick who wrote mystery novels and...

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Mix Me a Person

1962 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

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Shirley's World (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Melville Shavelson · Frank Tarloff · Ray Austin · Ralph Levy

Cast Shirley MacLaine · John Gregson · Rodney Bewes · Stuart Damon

Synopsis Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis Croft, her London based editor.

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The Shiralee

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Peter Finch · Dana Wilson · Elizabeth Sellars · George Rose

Synopsis An itinerant rural worker named Macauley —sometimes described as a “swagman” or “swaggie”—suddenly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. Having returned from “walkabout”, he finds his wife entwined in the arms of another, and so he takes the daughter,...

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Direction Jeremy Summers · Ray Austin · Cyril Frankel · Leslie Norman

Cast Mike Pratt · Kenneth Cope · Annette Andre · Ivor Dean

Synopsis Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are private detectives who specialize in divorce cases. Their long-running partnership seems to come to an abrupt end when Marty is killed by a hit-and-run, but Marty is soon back--as a ghost--to help solve his...

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959 · Movie · 93 min. · Australia

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Anne Baxter · John Mills · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.

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The Baron (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey · Roy Ward Baker · Cyril Frankel · Robert Asher

Cast Steve Forrest · Sue Lloyd · Paul Ferris · Colin Gordon

Synopsis TV Series (1966-1967). Stories of an antique dealer who is really an undercover agent.

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Spare the Rod

1961 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Max Bygraves · Donald Pleasence · Geoffrey Keen · Betty McDowall

Synopsis It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving.

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Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Laurence Harvey · Richard Todd · Richard Harris · David McCallum

Synopsis A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they...

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