Directing
John E. Blakeley
Born
1888-01-01 (138)
Place of birth
Ardwick, Manchester, England, UK
Known for
Directing
Credits
35 titles
Known for
6.0Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
Demobbed
1944
9.0The 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
6.0Joe 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
7.2Northern 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
Revue featuring music hall personalities. Lost film.
Love, Mirth and Melody
1934
6.8Classic 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
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.0Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
Demobbed
1944
9.0The 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
9.0The 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
6.0Joe 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
6.0Joe 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
6.0Joe 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
7.2Northern 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
7.2Northern 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
7.2Northern 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
Revue featuring music hall personalities. Lost film.
Love, Mirth and Melody
1934
6.8Classic 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
6.8Classic 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
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
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
8.0When 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
8.0When 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
8.0When 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
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
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
6.6Without 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
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
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
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
'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
An exasperated clerk at a labour exchange tries to find jobs for two idle scroungers.
Dodging the Dole
1936
An exasperated clerk at a labour exchange tries to find jobs for two idle scroungers.
Dodging the Dole
1936
8.0Flatfoot 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
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
7.0In 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
7.0In 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
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
7.0Private 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
7.0Private 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
7.3Army 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

