Directing

Harry Booth

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Harry Booth is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and editor. He began his film career in 1941. He debuted as a director with the war documentary Blitz on Britain. His subsequent films include A King's Story, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Known for

Mutiny on the Buses poster
7.3

Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park

Mutiny on the Buses

1972

On the Buses poster
6.2

Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of

On the Buses

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Billy the Kid

1968

A King's Story poster
6.8

A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

A King's Story

1965

At the Stroke of Nine poster
10.0

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.

At the Stroke of Nine

1957

No artwork available
NR

Magnificent Six-and-a-Half gang series, in which they build a raft.

Kontiki Kids

1968

Behind the camera

Mutiny on the Buses poster
7.3

Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park

Mutiny on the Buses

1972

On the Buses poster
6.2

Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of

On the Buses

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Billy the Kid

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Billy the Kid

1968

A King's Story poster
6.8

A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

A King's Story

1965

At the Stroke of Nine poster
10.0

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.

At the Stroke of Nine

1957

No artwork available
NR

Magnificent Six-and-a-Half gang series, in which they build a raft.

Kontiki Kids

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: The Astronoughts poster
NR

Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk.

The Magnificent Six and ½: The Astronoughts

1969

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee's Pianola poster
NR

The kids find a pianola, and try to bring it to junkyard owner Old Tom. But when it runs away, with Peewee trapped inside of it, nothing but chaos ensues.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee's Pianola

1968

Going Dutch poster
7.3

Scatterbrained but imaginative Robbie Henegouwen de Boer has only worked for a tour operator for two months, when a colleague is suddenly fired and he is tasked with showing an international coach party around. The newly-minted tour guide is faced with a plethora of problems...

Going Dutch

1973

Going Dutch poster
7.3

Scatterbrained but imaginative Robbie Henegouwen de Boer has only worked for a tour operator for two months, when a colleague is suddenly fired and he is tasked with showing an international coach party around. The newly-minted tour guide is faced with a plethora of problems...

Going Dutch

1973

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket poster
NR

An errant cricket ball causes mayhem as the gang try to recover it.

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket

1969

No artwork available
6.9

Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

1956

The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time poster
NR

When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!

The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time

1969

Blitz on Britain poster
7.1

Featuring archival footage from both German and UK sources, this documentary examines the defense of Britain during the early years of World War II.

Blitz on Britain

1960

Go for a Take poster
8.0

Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.

Go for a Take

1972

Go for a Take poster
8.0

Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.

Go for a Take

1972

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape poster
NR

Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus. Peewee manages to befriend the real ape by giving him a bunch of bananas.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shipwreck

1967

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job poster
NR

The gang help in the collections for a youth club, by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood and getting into trouble at the same time.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job poster
NR

The gang help in the collections for a youth club, by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood and getting into trouble at the same time.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids poster
NR

The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal, with just one problem; getting the raft to the canal.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids poster
NR

The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal, with just one problem; getting the raft to the canal.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids

1968

Our Man in the Caribbean poster
8.0

A compilation of two episodes from two separate but connected series: "The Sentimental Agent" (106, Man of the World) and "A Very Desirable Plot" (109, The Sentimental Agent).

Our Man in the Caribbean

1964

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies poster
6.0

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies poster
6.0

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Lad in the Lamp

1969

The Flying Sorcerer poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Flying Sorcerer

1974

The Flying Sorcerer poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Flying Sorcerer

1974

No artwork available
9.0

An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.

Bachelor of Arts

1971

No artwork available
9.0

An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.

Bachelor of Arts

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Dragon's Secret

1967

No artwork available
9.0

Two families and their children are rivals in a forthcoming race for do-it-yourself boat builders. (7 episodes, each 14-21 minutes.)

River Rivals

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Night Raiders

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Blockade Runners

1967

No artwork available
NR

The Magnificent Six-and-a-Half gang help in the collections for a youth club.

Bob a Job

1968

No artwork available
NR

The Gang engage Marvo the Magician for Peewee's birthday party, but unfortunately all his magic misfires, and he loses Stodger in his special cabinet. Still searching for Stodger, Marvo makes himself disappear.

The Magician

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Golden Dragon

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mission Accomplished

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Operation Airlift

1967