Charles Frend
Charles Herbert Frend was an English film director and editor, best known for his films produced at Ealing Studios. He began directing in the early 1940s and is known for such films as Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea.
Known For
8 titles
The Cruel Sea
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
Scott of the Antarctic
The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.
The Third Key
The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
A Run for Your Money
Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.
The Magnet
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
San Demetrio London
Rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned.
Trouble in the Sky
In Britain, at the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an aircraft manufacturer tries to shift the blame from mechanical failure to pilot error when its newest jet airliner has a series of accidents.
Johnny Frenchman
There exists an age-old rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fisherfolk, but harbormaster Nat Pomeroy holds a particular grudge - not just for the Bretons' incessant poaching, but for the harbor dues he loses in the process.