industries, and known in other fields, including politics. He is simply irreplaceable and it is wholly apt that he died surrounded by his family." Film critic Mark Kermode wrote: "Once had the fan-boyish pleasure of telling Bryan Forbes how much I loved [The] Stepford Wives. He was charming and self-effacing. A great loss." Select filmography As actor The Small Back Room (1949) as Peterson, dying gunner All Over the Town (1949) as Trumble Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) as Tony The Wooden Horse (1950) as Paul Green Grow the Rushes (1951) as Fred Starling – Biddle crew member Flesh and Fury (1952) as Fighter (uncredited) The World in His Arms (1952) as William Cleggett Appointment in London (1953) as The Brat Sea Devils (1953) as Willie Wheel of Fate (1953) as Ted Reid The Million Pound Note (1954) as Todd An Inspector Calls (1954) as Eric Up to His Neck (1954) as Subby The Colditz Story (1955) as Jimmy Winslow Passage Home (1955) as Shorty Now and Forever (1956) as Frisby Mabrouka (1956) as Dying Soldier (scenes deleted) The Baby and the Battleship (1956) as Prof. Evans Satellite in the Sky (1956) as Jimmy It's Great to Be Young (1956) as Mr. Parkes, Organ Salesman. The Extra Day (1956) as Harry Quatermass 2 (1957) as Marsh The Key (1958) as Weaver I Was Monty's Double (1958) as Young Lieutenant Yesterday's Enemy (1959) as Dawson The Angry Silence (1960) as Journalist (uncredited) The League of Gentlemen (1960) as Martin Porthill The Guns of Navarone (1961) as Cohn Of Human Bondage (1964) (uncredited) A Shot in the Dark (1964, credited as Turk Thrust) as Camp Attendant King Rat (1965) as Radio (voice, uncredited) The Slipper and the Rose (1976) as Herald (uncredited) International Velvet (1978) as Awards Presenter (uncredited) Restless Natives (1985) as Driver As screenwriter The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) Man in the Moon (1960) Station Six-Sahara (1962) Only Two Can Play (1962) Hopscotch (1980) Chaplin (1992) As director Whistle Down the Wind (1961) The L-Shaped Room (1962) Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) King Rat (1965) The Wrong Box (1966) The Whisperers (1967) Deadfall (1968) The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) The Raging Moon (1971) The Stepford Wives (1975) The Slipper and the Rose (1976) International Velvet (1978) Better Late Than Never (1983) The Naked Face (1984) As head of EMI films And Soon the Darkness (1970) The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) Hoffman