John Paddy Carstairs

John Paddy Carstairs (b. John Keys, 11 May 1910, London - d. 12 December 1970, London) was a British film director (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter.

He directed 37 films in total. He had a long association with the character of Simon Templar (the character's creator, Leslie Charteris, dedicated the 1963 book, The Saint in the Sun to Carstairs).

Aside from directing the 1939 Saint film, The Saint in London, he also directed two episodes of The Saint in the 1960s, making him the only individual (other than Charteris himself) to be connected to both the Hollywood film and British series of The Saint.

His autobiographies include:

• Honest Injun (1942)
• Hadn't We the Gaiety (1945)
• Kaleidoscope and a Jaundiced Eye (1946)

Filmography

• It's a Boy (1933, screenwriter)
• Paris Plane (1933)
• Holiday's End (1937)
• Double Exposures (1937)
• Night Ride (1937)
• Missing, Believed Married (1937)
• Incident in Shanghai (1938)
• Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
• The Saint in London (1939)
• All Hands (1940)
• Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
• Now You're Talking (1940)
• The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
• Dangerous Comment (1940)
• Telefootlers (1941)
• He Found a Star (1941)
• Spare a Copper (1941)
• Dancing with Crime (1947)
• Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
• Fools Rush In (1949)
• The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
• Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
• Talk of a Million (1951)
• Made in Heaven (1952)
• Treasure Hunt (1952)
• Top of the Form (1953)
• Trouble in Store (1953)
• Up to His Neck (1954)
• One Good Turn (1955)
• Man of the Moment (1955)
• Jumping for Joy (1956)
• Up in the World (1956)
• Just My Luck (1957)
• The Big Money (1958)
• The Square Peg (1959)
• Tommy the Toreador (1959)
• Sands of the Desert (1960)
• A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
• The Devil's Agent (1962)

External links

• John Paddy Carstairs at the Internet Movie Database
• John Paddy Carstairs biography and filmography at the British Film Institute's Screenonline