"I see nothing wrong in taking a story of this sort and making a rip-roaring movie out of it."
— On making a film of the extremely risqué Harold Robbins novel The Adventurers.
Lewis Gilbert CBE (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter.
He directed more than 40 films during six decades. Although mainly known during his time for doing character dramas, Gilbert later became best known for directing three Eon Productions James Bond films — You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). All three were some of the biggest in scale in the franchise.
Films directed with pages on TV Tropes:
- Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
- Reach for the Sky (1956)
- Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
- H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
- The 7th Dawn (1964)
- Alfie (1966)
- James Bond
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Moonraker (1979)
- Friends (1971)
- Operation Daybreak (1975)
- Educating Rita (1983)
- Shirley Valentine (1989)
- Haunted (1995)
Tropes in his films:
- Sequel Escalation: The James Bond films directed by him were the biggest in scale in The '60s and The '70s when compared to their immediate predecessors, notably with the use of large sets created by Ken Adam and fancier gadgets (cigarette rocket, submarine car etc), with his final film Moonraker concluding with launching Bond into space (and having a space battle, for that matter).
