Your comprehensive guide detailing TV and Film productions that have been filmed in Kent
Director: John Frankenheimer Starring: James Garner, Yves Montand, Antonio Sabato, Eva Marie Saint Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Douglas & Lewis Productions, Joel Productions, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc, Cherokee Productions Kent Locations Used: Brands Hatch Grand Prix (1966) is a film that follows four Formula One drivers through a fictional 1966 Grand Prix and charts their tough and […]
Director: William Wyler Starring: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore Production Company: Collector Company, Columbia Pictures Corporation Kent Locations Used: Gabriel’s Manor in Edenbridge and Westerham Village The Collector (1965) is a psychological thriller about the fantasies of Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp). His obsession with collecting beautiful objects begins innocently with butterflies. However, after several […]
Director: Terence Young Writer: Denis Cannan, Roland Kibbee based on Daniel Defoe’s novel “Moll Flanders” Starring: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury Production Company: Winchester Productions Locations used: Chilham, St Mary’s Church, Chilham Castle Based on Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders, the 1965 adaptation titled The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) is set in the […]
Director: Ken Annakin Writer: Jack Davies, Ken Annakin Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Productions Kent Locations Used: Dover Seafront, The White Cliffs of Dover Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) is a British comedy set in 1910 about a newspaper mogul who offers a […]
Director: Richard Martin Starring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill and William Russell Production Company:BBC Kent Locations Used: St John’s Hole Quarry The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) is a six part story of popular sci-fi show, Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell. The Doctor and his three companions, Ian, Barbara and Susan, land in […]
Director: Ken Russell Starring: James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation, Kenneth Harper Production Kent Locations Used: Herne Bay, Kings Hall, Medway Queen Paddle Steamer French Dressing (1964) is a comedy film set in the fictional seaside town of Gormleigh-on-Sea about a deckchair attendant, Jim Stephens (James Booth) who is deputised […]
Directed by: James Neilson Starring: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Michael Hordern, Tony Britton, Sean Scully, Alan Dobie Production Company: Walt Disney Productions Kent Locations Used: Romney Marsh, St Clement’s Church Old Romney In 18th Century England, the Vicar of Dymchurch (Patrick McGoohan) takes on the alias of The Scarecrow. Alongside his gang of smugglers, they turn […]
Director: Leslie Norman Writer: David Devine and W.P. Lipscomb Starring: John Mills, Robert Urquhart, Ray Jackson, Meredith Edwards, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough, Sean Barrett, Maxine Audley Production Company: Ealing Studios Kent Locations Used: Teston Bridge In the summer of 1940, over 300,000 troops were evacuated from the shores of Dunkirk. Ten years later, Dunkirk (1958) was filmed, […]
Director: John Guillermin Writer: John Cresswell, Nora Lavin, Molly Thorp Starring: Mandy Miller, Harold Lang, Mona Washbourne, Melvyn Hayes, Léon Garcia Production Company: Roger Proudlock Productions Kent Locations Used: Goudhurst – Triggs Farm, Nutley Windmill, Goudhurst Railway Station Based on the 1952 novel ‘The Hop Dog’, Adventure in the Hopfields (1954) is a British children’s […]
Director: Robert Hamer Starring: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars Production Company: J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Europa, British Film-Makers Kent Locations Used: Gravesend, Stangate Creek The Long Memory (1953) is a black and white 1953 film based on the 1951 novel of the same name by Howard Clewes. The crime thriller is about Philip Davidson […]