Directing

Jim Goddard

Born — Died

1936-02-02 — 2013-06-17

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Jim Goddard (2 February 1936 — 17 June 2013) was an English film and television director, and production designer.

Known for

Shanghai Surprise poster
4.3

Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.

Shanghai Surprise

1986

No artwork available
1.0

The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

Fox

1980

A Tale of Two Cities poster
6.1

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

A Tale of Two Cities

1980

Greenstone poster
9.0

A majestic tale of drama, love, mystery and the clashing of cultures in early 1800's New Zealand.

Greenstone

1999

The Lifeswappers poster
NR

Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?

The Lifeswappers

1976

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil poster
4.9

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

Behind the camera

Shanghai Surprise poster
4.3

Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.

Shanghai Surprise

1986

No artwork available
1.0

The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

Fox

1980

A Tale of Two Cities poster
6.1

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

A Tale of Two Cities

1980

Greenstone poster
9.0

A majestic tale of drama, love, mystery and the clashing of cultures in early 1800's New Zealand.

Greenstone

1999

The Lifeswappers poster
NR

Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?

The Lifeswappers

1976

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil poster
4.9

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

Metamorphosis poster
7.5

TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becomes a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.

Metamorphosis

1989

The Impossible Spy poster
5.9

This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.

The Impossible Spy

1987

Lie Down with Lions poster
4.1

Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization.

Lie Down with Lions

1994

Blood and Dust poster
7.0

The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades.

Blood and Dust

1992

The Law Lord poster
9.0

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard

The Law Lord

1992

The Four Minute Mile poster
7.5

For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile....

The Four Minute Mile

1988

Parker poster
6.3

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.

Parker

1985

The Black Stuff poster
7.4

A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.

The Black Stuff

1980

No artwork available
NR

Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.

Amy, Wonderful Amy

1974

No artwork available
NR

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

Reasonable Force

1988

Say Goodnight to Your Grandma poster
NR

Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.

Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

1970

No artwork available
NR

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

Brussel Sprouts

1973

The World in a Room poster
NR

Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.

The World in a Room

1970

Gadgetman poster
8.3

When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contraption that can save his dad’s life.

Gadgetman

1996

No artwork available
3.3

James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.

A Room for the Winter

1981

No artwork available
NR

Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.

Poor Mother

1970

The House of Angelo poster
10.0

It's 1775 and the American Revolution. Britain is vulnerable and France knows it. The difference between war and peace is an affluent, young French-American, Count Octavius, who has estates in America which the French Crown is desperate to possess. Without the protection of the Master of Arms, Dominic Angelo, Ocatvius' family could be murdered. But when Angelo, an expert in the art of deception, is tricked by a traitor in his own ranks, the stakes get even higher.

The House of Angelo

1997