Lionel Bart

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Lionel Bart

Born August 1, 1930 · Stepney, London, England, UK

Died April 3, 1999 · aged 68

Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a British writer and composer of pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's "Rock with the Caveman", which became the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and was the sole creator of the musical Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an …

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From Russia with LoveFrom Russia with Love · 1963
From Russia with Love
★ 7.11963
MovieActionThriller
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Oliver!Oliver! · 1968
Oliver!
★ 7.01968
MovieDramaFamily
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Man in the MiddleMan in the Middle · 1964
Man in the Middle
★ 6.51964
MovieWarDrama
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Lock Up Your DaughtersLock Up Your Daughters · 1969
Lock Up Your Daughters
★ 6.01969
MovieComedy
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
The Duke Wore JeansThe Duke Wore Jeans · 1958
The Duke Wore Jeans
★ 5.51958
MovieComedyRomance
A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.
Sparrows Can't SingSparrows Can't Sing · 1963
Sparrows Can't Sing
★ 5.31963
MovieComedyDrama
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
★ 6.21973
MovieScience FictionHorror
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The South Bank ShowThe South Bank Show · 1978
The South Bank Show
★ 5.61978
SeriesDocumentaryTalk
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

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