David Rose

Production

David Rose

Born — Died

1924-11-22 — 2017-01-26

Place of birth

Swanage, Dorset, England, UK

Known for

Production

Credits

43 titles

David Rose was a British film and television producer and director.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Licking Hitler poster
NR

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.

Licking Hitler

1978

No artwork available
NR

Joyce would appear to have everything to live for: two young children, an executive husband and a nice home, but...

That Quiet Earth

1972

Breath poster
NR

Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma creates problems. Everyone seems to be helpful - but are they? Is there something sinister about Mrs Pritchett , the new housekeeper, or is it Nell's imagination? Who knows where reality ends and fantasy begins?

Breath

1975

Lucky Village poster
8.0

The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An exploration of the problems of man's inner freedom.

Lucky Village

1992

Electric in the City poster
NR

The Mozart Cafe explodes, a city is blacked out, a great newspaper goes to the wall, and a prophet is seen to have feet of clay!

Electric in the City

1980

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

Our Flesh and Blood poster
NR

Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.

Our Flesh and Blood

1977

Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? poster
NR

Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.

Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?

1974

Doran's Box poster
NR

A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.

Doran's Box

1976

The Lonely Man's Lover poster
NR

Poet Daniel Tasker moves to a small Yorkshire village, where he perturbs and disturbs the locals, except for Lizzie, who has feelings awakened in her that change her life.

The Lonely Man's Lover

1974

The Roses of Eyam poster
7.0

William Mompesson retells the heroic true story of the inhabitants of Eyam, Derbyshire, who he convinced to sacrifice themselves during a visitation of the plague.

The Roses of Eyam

1973

The Fishing Party poster
8.5

Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

The Fishing Party

1972

The Chief Mourner poster
NR

"Suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of." For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.

The Chief Mourner

1979

Packman's Barn poster
NR

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

Packman's Barn

1976

Number on End poster
10.0

A documentary filmmaker’s latest work attracts the attentions of African secret agents - but what is it they want from the film?

Number on End

1980

Penda's Fen poster
7.4

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Penda's Fen

1974

The After Dinner Game poster
7.5

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

The After Dinner Game

1975

Hesther for Example poster
NR

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

Hesther for Example

1980

Shakespeare or Bust poster
10.0

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

Shakespeare or Bust

1973

No artwork available
NR

Speaking from his Oldham home today, Mr Rick Taylor, this weekend's big winner, said "The money will not change my life."'

You're Free

1972

The Other Woman poster
3.0

A lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the man in her pre-arranged heterosexual marriage.

The Other Woman

1976

The Death of a Young Young Man poster
NR

Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower block, but his friends think he's daft. Billy can see a different kind of life ahead, doing a job he could really enjoy-but events conspire against him.

The Death of a Young Young Man

1975

The Enigma poster
NR

When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jennings, left to pursue the investigation, finds little humour or help amongst Fielding's friends or family. Only Isobel could believe that Fielding might have wanted to disappear.

The Enigma

1980

Days at the Beach poster
NR

In 1920 a trio of British soldiers have to guard an exploded mine washes up on a beach. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.

Days at the Beach

1981

The Kiss of Death poster
6.5

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to go out with her, but she finally gets him to go to a disco; he won't dance, so Linda dances with Ronnie.

The Kiss of Death

1977

Scully's New Year's Eve poster
9.0

Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.

Scully's New Year's Eve

1978

Nuts in May poster
7.1

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Nuts in May

1976

Love on a Gunboat poster
NR

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

Love on a Gunboat

1977

Artemis '81 poster
4.1

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

Artemis '81

1981

No artwork available
NR

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

Who Pays the Piper?

1960

The Out of Town Boys poster
NR

A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

The Out of Town Boys

1979

Keep Smiling poster
NR

Family picnics should not be like this; bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Simon, nor the bizarre events of the next six months.

Keep Smiling

1980

No artwork available
NR

Holiday work in the countryside brings three young friends peace and tenderness. The richness and innocence of their experience carries with it the seeds of painful disintegration.

Scarborough

1972

Red Shift poster
7.7

Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?

Red Shift

1978

Our Day Out poster
7.8

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.

Our Day Out

1977

Days poster
NR

'When I was your age I wanted to go to Italy more than anything in the world ... old buildings .. , sunlight. Blue skies ... the air full of the sound of bells in the morning and at dusk.' A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, looks back on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day to day existence. Must her daughter follow in her footsteps? How can she find a way to guide her towards a brighter future?

Days

1981

Three for the Fancy poster
8.0

Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles!

Three for the Fancy

1974

Dreams of Leaving poster
7.0

William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very strange summer ... Caroline said the best of her life.

Dreams of Leaving

1980

Land of Green Ginger poster
10.0

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?

Land of Green Ginger

1973

The Witches of Pendle poster
5.5

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

The Witches of Pendle

1976