Directing

Norman Cohen

Born — Died

1936-06-11 — 1983-10-26

Place of birth

Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971). He was also a director of several of the Confessions of... sex comedy series: Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) and Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977). In addition to those films, he also produced as well as directed the adaptation of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973),[1][2] and the comedy sequel Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). Cohen's first film production wa…

Known for

Confessions of a Pop Performer poster
4.5

Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!

Confessions of a Pop Performer

1975

Confessions from a Holiday Camp poster
5.1

Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

1977

Confessions of a Driving Instructor poster
4.7

Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.

Confessions of a Driving Instructor

1976

No artwork available
7.3

Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.

New York at the Movies

2002

Dad's Army poster
5.0

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.

Dad's Army

1971

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers poster
4.6

Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

1977

Behind the camera

Confessions of a Pop Performer poster
4.5

Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!

Confessions of a Pop Performer

1975

Confessions from a Holiday Camp poster
5.1

Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

1977

Confessions of a Driving Instructor poster
4.7

Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.

Confessions of a Driving Instructor

1976

No artwork available
7.3

Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.

New York at the Movies

2002

Dad's Army poster
5.0

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.

Dad's Army

1971

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers poster
4.6

Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

1977

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall poster
5.0

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

1973

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall poster
5.0

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

1973

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall poster
5.0

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

1973

Till Death Us Do Part poster
7.6

Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during the Blitz.

Till Death Us Do Part

1969

The London Nobody Knows poster
6.4

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

The London Nobody Knows

1968

The London Nobody Knows poster
6.4

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

The London Nobody Knows

1968

London in the Raw poster
3.8

Influenced by the worldwide success of Italian 'Mondo' movies, British low-budget movie mogul Arnold Louis Miller concocted this exploitation-style documentary. Peering behind the grimy net curtains of London life into seedy bars and clubs, and burrowing beneath the glittering façade of the capital's glamorous cocktail lounges and casinos, "London in the Raw" presents a cynical, sometimes startling, vision of life in 1960s London.

London in the Raw

1964

Thin Ice poster
9.0

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

Thin Ice

1981

No artwork available
9.0

Freddie, a motor mechanic, rescues a baby, and twenty years later he offers to become responsible for him - Tony - when he is put on probation for petty theft. Tony abuses his kindness by involving Freddie's two adolescent children in a bank robbery, in which he panics and kills the cashier. With his associate, Spud, and the children, Harry and Monica, he makes for London.

Breath of Life

1963

The Lion's Share poster
7.0

An Italian cop returns to his birthplace of South Africa to investigate his father's death

The Lion's Share

1985

The Lion's Share poster
7.0

An Italian cop returns to his birthplace of South Africa to investigate his father's death

The Lion's Share

1985

No artwork available
NR

A look at some of the laws you never even thought existed and their pitfalls.

Look at Life: There Ought to Be a Law

1968

Brendan Behan's Dublin poster
NR

A documentary in which Brendan Behan acts as guide to Dublin.

Brendan Behan's Dublin

1966

Brendan Behan's Dublin poster
NR

A documentary in which Brendan Behan acts as guide to Dublin.

Brendan Behan's Dublin

1966

Burning Rubber poster
6.0

The story of Henry Carsten (Alan Longmuir from Bay City Rollers), his life as a race car driver and his relationship with Maxe (Olivia Pascal). Also features Rollers members Stuart Wood and Duncan Faure in the supporting cast. The Rollers provide the soundtrack to the film with 10 new songs.

Burning Rubber

1981