Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down

By: Jaspar Lamar Crabb

In honour of the great new book…by Robert Sellers….celebrating how one generation of British actors changed the world…

Peter O’Toole
Albert Finney
Terence Stamp
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
Robert Shaw
Richard Harris
Tom Courtenay
Alan Bates

and I’m throwing in Richard Burton (to capture LOOK BACK IN ANGER!)

• 01
  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  Karel Reisz
• 02
  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  Tony Richardson
• 03
  Tom Jones
  Tony Richardson
• 04
  This Sporting Life
  Lindsay Anderson
• 05
  Whistle Down the Wind
  Bryan Forbes
• 06
  Alfie
  Lewis Gilbert
• 07
  Zulu
  Cy Endfield
• 08
  Dr. No
  Terence Young
• 09
  Billy Liar
  John Schlesinger
• 10
  Billy Budd
  Peter Ustinov
• 11
  A Kind of Loving
  John Schlesinger
• 12
  The Savage Innocents
  Nicholas Ray
• 13
  The Entertainer
  Tony Richardson
• 14
  Georgy Girl
  Silvio Narizzano
• 15
  King & Country
  Joseph Losey
• 16
  Otley
  Dick Clement
• 17
  The Ipcress File
  Sidney J. Furie
• 18
  The Birthday Party
  William Friedkin
• 19
  The Caretaker
  Clive Donner
• 20
  What's New Pussycat?
  Clive Donner
• 21
  The Collector
  William Wyler
• 22
  Term of Trial
  Peter Glenville
• 23
  Modesty Blaise
  Joseph Losey
• 24
  Two for the Road
  Stanley Donen
• 25
  The Hill
  Sidney Lumet
• 26
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 27
  A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann
• 28
  Teorema
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 29
  Spirits of the Dead
  Federico Fellini
• 30
  King of Hearts
  Philippe de Broca
• 31
  Zorba the Greek
  Mihalis Kakogiannis
• 32
  How to Steal a Million
  William Wyler
• 33
  Poor Cow
  Ken Loach
• 34
  The Luck of Ginger Coffey
  Irvin Kershner
• 35
  King Rat
  Bryan Forbes
• 36
  A Dandy in Aspic
  Anthony Mann
• 37
  The Night of the Generals
  Anatole Litvak
• 38
  From Russia with Love
  Terence Young
• 39
  The Day the Fish Came Out
  Mihalis Kakogiannis
• 40
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 41
  Play Dirty
  André De Toth
• 42
  Funeral in Berlin
  Guy Hamilton
• 43
  Charlie Bubbles
  Albert Finney
• 44
  Night Must Fall
  Karel Reisz
• 45
  Thunderball
  Terence Young
• 46
  Goldfinger
  Guy Hamilton
• 47
  Billion Dollar Brain
  Ken Russell
• 48
  Hell Drivers
  Cy Endfield
• 49
  The Molly Maguires
  Martin Ritt
• 50
  Woman Times Seven
  Vittorio De Sica
• 51
  Becket
  Peter Glenville
• 52
  Far from the Madding Crowd
  John Schlesinger
• 53
  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  Caspar Wrede
• 54
  Look Back in Anger
  Tony Richardson
• 55
  The Italian Job
  Peter Collinson