Cyril Raker Endfield Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
The son of a struggling businessman, Cy Endfield--born Cyril Raker Endfield--worked hard to be admitted to Yale University in 1933. While completing his education he became enamored with progressive theatre and appeared in a New Haven production of a minor Russian play in 1934. He was also profoundly influenced by such friends as writer Paul ...
He was at one time a professional magician, and in the early 1940s even instructed Orson Welles, who had a lifelong interest in magic.
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In the 1950s he was blacklisted by the Hollywood studios as a result of his name being brought up by the House Un-American Activities Commmittee (HUAC) in its now-discredited hunt for "Communist subversives" in Hollywood. Unable to support his family because producers were terrified to hire him, he accepted work in England and moved there, where he wrote several screenplays--although not under his real name--and eventually directed a few films.
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Inventor of the microwriter - a replacement for the keyboard that requires 1 hand to operate.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
1984
TV Movie documentary uncredited
Universal Soldier
1972
De Sade
1969
Sands of the Kalahari
1965
Hide and Seek
1964
Zulu
1964
Mysterious Island
1961
Jet Storm
1959
as C. Raker Endfield
Sea Fury
1958
as C. Raker Endfield
Hell Drivers
1957
as C. Raker Endfield
Child in the House
1956
as C. Raker Endfield, direction supervision / co-director - as Charles De Lautour
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
TV Series as Cyril Endfield, 3 episodes
Colonel March Investigates
1955
as Cyril Enfield
The Secret
1955
The Master Plan
1954
as Hugh Raker
Impulse
1954
uncredited
The Limping Man
1953
as Charles de Lautour
Tarzan's Savage Fury
1952
as Cyril Endfield
The Sound of Fury
1950
as Cyril Endfield
The Underworld Story
1950
as Cyril Endfield
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1949
The Argyle Secrets
1948
Stork Bites Man
1947
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
as Cyril Endfield
Our Old Car
1946
Short as Cyril Endfield
Magic on a Stick
1946
Short as Cyril Endfield
The Great American Mug
1945
Short as Cyril Endfield
Nostradamus IV
1944
Short as Cyril Endfield
Dancing Romeo
1944
Short
Tale of a Dog
1944
Short
Radio Bugs
1944
Short as Cyril Endfield
Inflation
1942
Short as Cyril Endfield
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Zulu Dawn
1979
original story and scenario / screenplay
Universal Soldier
1972
Sands of the Kalahari
1965
screenplay
Zulu
1964
original screenplay
Jet Storm
1959
screenplay - as C. Raker Endfield
Sea Fury
1958
writer - as C. Raker Endfield
Curse of the Demon
1957
uncredited
Hell Drivers
1957
adapted for the screen by - as C. Raker Endfield / screenplay - as C. Raker Endfield
Child in the House
1956
screenplay - as C. Raker Endfield
The Secret
1955
Crashout
1955
uncredited
The Master Plan
1954
screenplay - as Cyril Endfield, originally as Hugh Raker
$800,000
