Directing

John E. Blakeley

Born

1888-01-01 (138)

Place of birth

Ardwick, Manchester, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Demobbed poster
6.0

Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.

Demobbed

1944

Holidays with Pay poster
9.0

The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.

Holidays with Pay

1948

Holidays with Pay poster
9.0

The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.

Holidays with Pay

1948

Cup-Tie Honeymoon poster
6.0

Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.

Cup-Tie Honeymoon

1948

Cup-Tie Honeymoon poster
6.0

Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.

Cup-Tie Honeymoon

1948

Cup-Tie Honeymoon poster
6.0

Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.

Cup-Tie Honeymoon

1948

What a Carry On! poster
7.2

Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.

What a Carry On!

1949

What a Carry On! poster
7.2

Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.

What a Carry On!

1949

What a Carry On! poster
7.2

Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.

What a Carry On!

1949

No artwork available
NR

Revue featuring music hall personalities. Lost film.

Love, Mirth and Melody

1934

It's a Grand Life poster
6.8

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.

It's a Grand Life

1953

It's a Grand Life poster
6.8

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.

It's a Grand Life

1953

No artwork available
8.2

In Over the Garden Wall, a working class couple (Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome. As always, though, riotous trouble starts to flare up when a young man starts to flirt with James and Evans's daughter!

Over the Garden Wall

1950

No artwork available
8.2

In Over the Garden Wall, a working class couple (Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome. As always, though, riotous trouble starts to flare up when a young man starts to flirt with James and Evans's daughter!

Over the Garden Wall

1950

Under New Management poster
8.0

When chimney sweep Joe inherits a ramshackle hotel, he enlists the help of his former army friends to help restore and staff it. Knowing that an airport is due to be built nearby, two cunning property developers try to persuade him to sell, telling him the property is almost worthless. Can he thwart their scheme?

Under New Management

1946

Under New Management poster
8.0

When chimney sweep Joe inherits a ramshackle hotel, he enlists the help of his former army friends to help restore and staff it. Knowing that an airport is due to be built nearby, two cunning property developers try to persuade him to sell, telling him the property is almost worthless. Can he thwart their scheme?

Under New Management

1946

Under New Management poster
8.0

When chimney sweep Joe inherits a ramshackle hotel, he enlists the help of his former army friends to help restore and staff it. Knowing that an airport is due to be built nearby, two cunning property developers try to persuade him to sell, telling him the property is almost worthless. Can he thwart their scheme?

Under New Management

1946

No artwork available
10.0

Two clumsy detectives investigating the murder of a singer scare themselves when they accidentally reveal the killer to be a respectable psychiatrist, secretly a notorious jewel-thief. A rare film venture by this top radio comedy team.

Let's Have a Murder

1950

No artwork available
10.0

Two clumsy detectives investigating the murder of a singer scare themselves when they accidentally reveal the killer to be a respectable psychiatrist, secretly a notorious jewel-thief. A rare film venture by this top radio comedy team.

Let's Have a Murder

1950

Off the Dole poster
6.6

Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.

Off the Dole

1935

No artwork available
7.0

Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.

Home Sweet Home

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.

Home Sweet Home

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.

Home Sweet Home

1945

No artwork available
6.5

'The Penny Pool' (1937) features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland, who have been sacked from their jobs for filling in the penny football pools during work hours. But the Crazy Gang's assistance is not always useful!

The Penny Pool

1937

No artwork available
7.0

An exasperated clerk at a labour exchange tries to find jobs for two idle scroungers.

Dodging the Dole

1936

No artwork available
7.0

An exasperated clerk at a labour exchange tries to find jobs for two idle scroungers.

Dodging the Dole

1936

School for Randle poster
8.0

Flatfoot Mason and his friends are the bane of the staff of the school at which Flatfoot is janitor - and where one of the pupils is Mason's long-lost daughter

School for Randle

1949

No artwork available
6.0

A Lancashire family watch a series of variety acts on their dodgy new television set. Inspired, they put on a few numbers of their own at home.

The Television Follies

1933

Somewhere in England poster
7.0

In a North of England training camp, lovestruck Corporal Kenyon (Harry Kemble) is framed and demoted in rank by a rival in love for the affections of the Adjutant's daughter. Four friends rally round to help clear the Corporal's name.

Somewhere in England

1940

Somewhere in England poster
7.0

In a North of England training camp, lovestruck Corporal Kenyon (Harry Kemble) is framed and demoted in rank by a rival in love for the affections of the Adjutant's daughter. Four friends rally round to help clear the Corporal's name.

Somewhere in England

1940

No artwork available
4.0

Three sketches: Donovan and Byl perform comic acrobatics; Arnley and Gloria do a dance routine; Frank Randle plays an elderly shoe repairer.

Randle and All That

1946

Somewhere on Leave poster
7.0

Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.

Somewhere on Leave

1943

Somewhere on Leave poster
7.0

Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.

Somewhere on Leave

1943

Somewhere in Camp poster
7.3

Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail - until a hero is revealed and the sergeant masquerades as a housekeeper!

Somewhere in Camp

1942