Robert Tronson

Directing

Robert Tronson

Born — Died

1924-05-18 — 2008-11-27

Place of birth

Chilmark, Wiltshire, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Robert Tronson was a pioneer in the early days of directing live television plays. After a brief foray into film directing, he returned to television to direct episodes of some of the most popular series of the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.

Known for

Ring of Spies poster
7.0

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

Ring of Spies

1964

The Next Voice You See poster
9.0

An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.

The Next Voice You See

1975

The Traitors poster
5.8

The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US military research centre.

The Traitors

1962

Never Back Losers poster
5.0

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.

Never Back Losers

1961

No artwork available
8.0

Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.

Act of Reprisal

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared

The Limbo Connection

1978

Behind the camera

Ring of Spies poster
7.0

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

Ring of Spies

1964

The Next Voice You See poster
9.0

An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.

The Next Voice You See

1975

The Traitors poster
5.8

The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US military research centre.

The Traitors

1962

Never Back Losers poster
5.0

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.

Never Back Losers

1961

No artwork available
8.0

Love story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.

Act of Reprisal

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared

The Limbo Connection

1978

Man Detained poster
6.0

A petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some money that the owner doesn't want the authorities to know about.

Man Detained

1961

The Colour of Blood poster
7.5

A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.

The Colour of Blood

1973

Kill Two Birds poster
8.0

Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money

Kill Two Birds

1975

No artwork available
10.0

After a pop singer is murdered, the police have to figure out which of his many enemies is responsible.

Farewell Performance

1963

All in Good Time poster
NR

A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.

All in Good Time

1964

Number Six poster
NR

An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as "Number Six".

Number Six

1962

No artwork available
10.0

A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.

Fear of God

1980

No artwork available
8.0

A lonely man with punctilious habits listens to a tape cassette of ambient barroom sounds, which include the hushed tones of two men plotting to kill him; but when a policeman listens, all the sounds are there except those of the two men. Later, Skipling receives an unwanted visit from a doctor and a welcome visit from his "befriender

Dying Day

1980

Man at the Carlton Tower poster
NR

The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.

Man at the Carlton Tower

1961

No artwork available
NR

Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware. The pair pose as a General and his batman looking their next job but the warm welcome, from the locals, makes them have second thoughts.

Toff and Fingers

1960

No artwork available
NR

Stockbroker Mr Sparrow finds himself blackmailed by his secretary after fiddling the taxman plus making unwanted sexual advances.

The Blackmailing of Mr. S

1964

No artwork available
NR

A woman is alone in an isolated house. She receives constant phone calls for Vicky, but she doesn't know who Vicky can be.

Looking for Vicky

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Threatening Storm

1961

On the Run poster
NR

An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge

On the Run

1963