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Robert Hartford-Davis (born William Henry Davis, 23 July 1923 – 12 June 1977) was a British born producer, director and writer, who worked on film and television in both in the United Kingdom and United States. He is also sometimes credited as Michael Burrowes or Robert Hartford.
Hartford-Davis was born in Ramsgate, Kent in 1923 as William Henry Davis; he changed his name on becoming a television director in 1955. His television career encompassed drama, comedy and entertainment shows. Bob, as he liked to be called, started his career as an electrician in a South London film studio, where he went on to develop his skills as a cameraman. During the fifties he made a number of short films. These were innovative with the choice of cast and script content. In the late fifties he became an agent and worked for Roy Rogers, amongst others (in England).
His talents included co-writing many scripts for 'exploitation' movies and he used media events and people to forward his career. The Yellow Teddy Bears is a prime example of his vivid imagination, using an article in a national newspaper as fodder.
Robert dealt with the downturn of the film industry in the UK by investing his own money in two movies, The Fiend and Nobody Ordered Love.
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01 January 1962
In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up.
05 December 1969
During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada.
20 December 1972
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed.
01 May 1972
During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew.
14 May 1971
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece.
01 January 1963
That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963.
19 July 1968
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland.
19 October 1964
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders.
08 December 1966
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job".
01 April 1964
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
01 January 1961
Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Coffee Bar.
15 July 1966
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
01 May 1974
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
01 July 1963
A clique of girls in an English school wear a small yellow teddy bear on their uniform to signify that they have lost their virginity.
30 April 1972
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder.
01 January 1955
A man wakes on a clifftop with no memory of who he is or how he got there and has to piece toigether what happened to him.
25 August 1969
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
01 December 1960
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.
24 May 1965
Bizarre sixties fable resembling Romeo and Juliet, but instead of Montagues and Capulets, there are two musical communities, one who like rock and roll and one who like ballads, who become reunited through the love between a couple who love across their grouping.
15 September 1953
Account of how Anglo-American police co-operation succeeds in tracking down forgers of $100 bills.
