Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé( born 17 November 1945) is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award- winning movies" The Killing Fields" and" The Mission".
He began his career in television, his early credits including episodes of" Coronation Street" and an adaptation of" The Stars Look Down" for Granada.
He gained a reputation for hard- hitting political stories with the series" Bill Brand" and factual dramas for" Play for Today".
Jack Arnold (director)
Jack Arnold( October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films.
His most notable films are" It Came from Outer Space"( 1953)," Creature from the Black Lagoon"( 1954)," Tarantula"( 1955), and" The Incredible Shrinking Man"( 1957).
John Nightingale (actor)
John Nightingale( 23 December 1942 – 31 March 1980) was a British actor, from Burnley, Lancashire Nightingale spent 5 years in the National Youth Theatre and, while still a student at Durham University, appeared on BBC television in a production of Julius Caesar, playing Titinius.
He was best known for his role in the popular 1970s TV series" When the Boat Comes In".
He played Tom Seaton, one of the two sons in the Seaton family at the centre of the series.
He had other parts in British television, including Jack Reedy in" The Stars Look Down", also a historical drama set in a mining community," Fall of Eagles" and" Crown Court".
John Nightingale died on 31 March 1980 from cancer.
At the time of his death he was 37 years old.
Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed( 30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for" Odd Man Out"( 1947)," The Fallen Idol"( 1948)," The Third Man"( 1949), and" Oliver!"( 1968).
For" Oliver!", he received the Academy Award for Best Director.
" Odd Man Out" was the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film; filmmaker Roman Polanski has repeatedly cited it as his favourite film.
" The Fallen Idol" won the second BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
The British Film Institute voted" The Third Man" the greatest British film of the 20th century.
No Name on the Bullet
No Name on the Bullet is a 1959 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor Western film directed by Jack Arnold starring Audie Murphy, Charles Drake and Joan Evans.
It is one of a handful of pictures in that genre directed by Jack Arnold, better known for his science- fiction movies of the era.
Although it is one of Universal Pictures modestly budgeted vehicles for World War II hero Audie Murphy, the top- billed actor is unusually, but very effectively, cast as the villain, a cold- blooded gun-for-hire.
The Stars Look Down (film)
The Stars Look Down is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England.
The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley.
The film is a" New York Times" Critics' Pick and is listed in" The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made".
The Stars Look Down (TV serial)
The Stars Look Down is a 1975 British television adaptation written by Alan Plater from A. J. Cronin's novel" The Stars Look Down", which was originally published in 1935.
The Granada production was directed by Roland Joffé, Alan Grint and Howard Baker and starred Ian Hastings as David Fenwick and Susan Tracy as his wife, Jenny.
Other versions include a 1940 British film and a 1971 Italian television adaptation.
Set between 1910 and 1930, the story follows the lives of people from the coal mining town of Sleescale in North East England.
David Fenwick and Joe Gowlan both leave the mines hoping for better prospects, while the mine owner's son Arthur Barras comes into conflict with his father.
Geoffrey Davion
Geoffrey Davion( born Geoffrey Davison, 27 January 1940 in South Shields, County Durham, died 13 February 1996 in Westminster, London) was an English television and Shakespearean stage actor, notably starring alongside Alun Armstrong in the popular series" The Stars Look Down".
He starred as Superintendent Nash in the TV film" Marple: The Moving Finger" from 1985.
He also acted in the cult classic film" Clockwise" and has worked with many other notable actors such as Ian McKellen and Kenneth Branagh.
His niece is actress Rebecca Davison.
The Stars Look Down (disambiguation)
The Stars Look Down is a 1935 British novel by A. J. Cronin.
The Stars Look Down may also refer to:

Question: Do both films, No Name on the Bullet and The Stars Look Down (film), have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no