Ben Roberts (International) assertion Ben Roberts i(6439279 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: American
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1 form y separately published work icon Diagnosis : Murder Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , ( dir. Sidney Hayers ) United Kingdom (UK) : Harlech Television Silhouette Film Productions , 1975 6444701 1975 single work film/TV crime thriller

'The wife of Dr. Stephan Hayward, a wealthy consultant psychiatrist, has disappeared. Lomax, an unconventional policeman, is investigating. When anonymous letters accuse the doctor of murdering his own wife, Lomax takes them seriously ...'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/61285). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon The Second Sin Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , ( dir. David Millin ) South Africa : Killarney Film Studios , 1966 6443145 1966 single work film/TV crime

'Drama of the murder of a jeweller and the trial of the suspect.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/341822). (Sighted: 17/9/2013).

1 form y separately published work icon Ride the High Wind African Gold Ben Roberts , Ivan Goff , ( dir. David Millin ) South Africa : Killarney Film Studios , 1965 6444062 1965 single work film/TV thriller adventure

'Adventure thriller with attractive desert settings about a search for buried gold.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/332106). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon Midnight Lace Ben Roberts , Ivan Goff , ( dir. David Miller ) United States of America (USA) : Universal Pictures Arwin Productions , 1960 6442766 1960 single work film/TV crime thriller mystery

'Suspense melodrama concerning suave Englishman's beautiful and rich American wife who is very nearly scared to death for her money.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42559). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon Portrait in Black Ben Roberts , Ivan Goff , ( dir. Michael Gordon ) United States of America (USA) : Ross Hunter Productions , 1960 6439914 1960 single work film/TV crime thriller

'Mystery melodrama about love between a beautiful young married woman and the doctor of her bedridden husband ending with murder.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46813). (Sighted: 16/9/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon The Fat Man : The Thirty-Two Friends of Gina Lardelli Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , ( dir. Joseph H. Lewis ) United States of America (USA) : Screen Gems , 1959 6442340 1959 single work film/TV crime detective

At less than an hour in duration, this telemovie was likely a pilot for a television series that was never made.

It is inspired by long-running radio series The Fat Man (based on characters by Dashiell Hammett), itself filmed in 1951 as The Fat Man. It must be noted, however, that the amateur detective in the radio series and earlier film was Brad Runyan, where the character's name in this film is Lucius Crane.

1 form y separately published work icon Backfire Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , ( dir. Vincent Sherman ) United States of America (USA) : Warner Brothers , 1950 6442078 1950 single work film/TV crime thriller

'A man sets out to prove that his friend is innocent of the murder of a gambler.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/24760). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon White Heat Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , ( dir. Raoul Walsh ) United States of America (USA) : Warner Brothers , 1949 6441881 1949 single work film/TV crime thriller

'Gangster film/melodrama. A psychopathic criminal, obsessed with his mother, is befriended and betrayed by an undercover policeman whom he meets in jail.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57918). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)

1 y separately published work icon Portrait in Black Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , New York (City) : Samuel French , 1948 6439323 1948 single work drama crime thriller

A contemporary review of the London performance offers the following synopsis:

'The rich shipowner's widow is a good hater, and Miss Diana Wynyard, a fashionable portrait painter's study in black, presents her various hates with measure and tact, enveloping them all in her own personal stillness and beauty. She has hated her husband, and she and a calmly murderous doctor with Mr. Hugh Williams's charming fireside manner have hastened his end. She hates her former lover, Mr. Ronald Squire imperially disguised and unusually solemn under the compulsion to utter more cautious threats than soft insincerities. She hates her step-daughter, a pleasant girl pleasantly played by Miss Ann Leon. It is a wonder that the step-daughter is alive at the end, for what the widow hates the doctor cold-bloodedly destroys. They are driven by hate and fear to go on destroying until, except for the step-daughter and a few minor characters, they have no one left but themselves to destroy.'

'Piccadilly Theatre. "Portrait in Black",' The Times, 31 May 1946, p.6.

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