Writing

Gavin Lambert

Born 1924-07-23

Gavin Lambert (23 July 1924 – 17 July 2005) was a British screenwriter, novelist, and biographer.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone poster
6.9

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

1961

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden poster
5.9

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977

Inside Daisy Clover poster
5.6

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

Inside Daisy Clover

1966

Bitter Victory poster
6.4

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

Bitter Victory

1957

Second Serve poster
5.3

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.

Second Serve

1986

Sons and Lovers poster
6.5

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

Sons and Lovers

1960

The Road to Edinburgh poster
NR

Feisty reporter Joan insists on driving to her next assignment in Edinburgh solo. Along the way she has a flat tire and a passerby lends a hand, she in kind offers him a lift. As she finds out more information about him she starts making assumptions and her fears rise.

The Road to Edinburgh

1954

Strange Witness poster
NR

Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.

Strange Witness

1958

Another Sky poster
4.8

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

Another Sky

1954

Another Sky poster
4.8

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

Another Sky

1954

I Want What I Want poster
4.3

Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.

I Want What I Want

1972

Liberace: Behind the Music poster
4.8

A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.

Liberace: Behind the Music

1988

Interval poster
6.0

An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...

Interval

1973