"His breakthrough was [the 1955 film] The Dam Busters, about the 1943 British raid against the Ruhr dams in Germany's industrial heartland. ... He was [subsequently] recruited to showman Mike Todd's big-budget adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1986), starring David Niven." Best known among his later films were Conduct Unbecoming […]
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AM on May 1, 2018