Ian MacNaughton
1925 - 2002Edward Ian Macnaughton (30 December 1925 – 10 December 2002) was a Scottish former actor-turned-television producer/director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team. He was born and brought up in Glasgow, educated at Strathallan School, and died in a car accident in Munich.
Serving as both director and producer of Monty Python's Flying Circus, MacNaughton also directed the team's first film, And Now For Something Completely Different and their German special, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus.
In 1979, he made the short movie Le Pétomane about farting artist Joseph Pujol, starring Leonard Rossiter.
He also was the producer of Spike Milligan's Q, which was a big influence on the Monty Python team.
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Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Lawrence of Arabia
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Ian MacNaughton
John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 respectively and were shot entirely on film, mostly on location in Bavaria. The first episode was recorded in German and the second was recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Ian MacNaughton
Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well known sketches, though the parrot sketch is not included. Steve Martin has some funny comments on the Pythons.
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Babs
Logan George, Celine Held
Bhasker Patel, George Logan
A young man searches his deceased father’s flat for a document that will justify expenditure for a large sum of money. He’s not been to the flat for quite some time and discovers with stupefaction his father’s strange acquisition.
Babs
The Bridal Path
Frank Launder
Bill Travers, George Cole
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
The Bridal Path
The Silent Enemy
William Fairchild
Laurence Harvey, Michael Craig
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
The Silent Enemy
Laxdale Hall
John Eldridge
Ronald Squire, Jameson Clark
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Laxdale Hall
X: The Unknown
Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey
Dean Jagger, Leo McKern
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
X the Unknown
Ghost Chase
Roland Emmerich
Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel
In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will resolve a family scandal.
Ghost Chase
