THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

A SMALL SELECTION OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE FILM

You'll be in a barrel if you don't watch out for the fighters.  Michael Caine was just one of the 'star names' to appear in Battle of Britain.
(Photo from the Robert J. Rudhall Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


During a break in filming the German 'fighter pilots' gather around a pair of real aces of World War Two. Adolf Galland (wearing black blazer) and Robert Stanford Tuck
(sitting with his back to the camera) are being interviewed as part of the film's publicity campaign.
(Photo from Heinz Birkholz, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Aircraft preservation the world over owes Captain Hamish Mahaddie a great debt. Hamish's involvement in sourcing the aircraft for Battle of Britain really kick-started
the warbird movement as we know it today. A founding member of the RAF's famed Pathfinder Force, Hamish is pictured at his home in 1990. He died, aged 85, in 1997.
(Photo from the Robert J. Rudhall Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")

Producer Harry Saltzman
(Unknown source)

Producer Ben Fisz
(Unknown source)

 
Susannah York as Section Officer Maggie Harvey
(Unknown sources)


Luftwaffe wartime fighter ace Adolf Galland was one of the film's technical advisors.
Here he discusses 'tactics' with actor Hein Riess, who played the part of Reichmarshall Herman Goering.
(Photo via Francois Prins, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Sitting alongside a Panavision camera, Guy Hamilton prepares to shoot another scene.
(Photo from the Hamish Mahaddie Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Christopher Plummer's character, Squadron Leader Colin Harvey, a Canadian pilot,
was shot down and badly burned in the latter stages of Battle of Britain.
(Photo from the Hamish Mahaddie Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Director Guy Hamilton (left) and former Battle of Britain fighter pilot James Ginger Lacey (centre), who was one of the film's
technical advisors, discuss the next scene with actor Robert Shaw, who played the part of Squadron Leader 'Skipper'.
(Photo from the Hamish Mahaddie Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Confederate Air Force 'Colonel' Wilson Connie Edwards concentrates on the briefing for the next aerial dogfight.
Connie claims to have been shot down over 100 times during the filming.
(Note: CAF pilots were used to pilot several of the film's aircraft, as they had current experience with flying warbirds.)
(Photo from the Robert J. Rudhall Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


During the process of making Battle of Britain, veterans of the actual 1940 conflict often visited the locations
and studios. A wheelchair-bound Lord Dowding takes a look around Duxford, accompanied by (L to R):
Tom Gleave, Robert Stanford Tuck, Ben Fisz, Freddie Young and Guy Hamilton.
(Photo from the Gary Brown Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Director Guy Hamilton (wearing his trademark white hat) plans the next scene with the film's co-producer
Ben Fisz, as they stroll past a Spitfire at Hawkinge Airfield, one of the film's most authentic locations.
(Photo via Francois Prins, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


A make-up artist 'touches up' Deitrich Frauboes prior to shooting the film's opening credits scene at Tablada Airfield, Spain.
(Photo from the Robert J. Rudhall Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Confederate Air Force 'Colonel' Lloyd Nolen, regailed in Luftwaffe uniform, strikes a pose alongside one of the Hispano Buchons at Tablada in Spain.
(Photo from the Robert J. Rudhall Collection, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")

 
Actors, advistors and a Spitfire. Susannah York and Kenneth More are joined
by James Ginger Lacey, Peter Townsend and Robert Stanford Tuck.
(Photo from Alan Tomkins, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")


Actor Trevor Howard, who played Air Vice Marshal Keith Park in the film, chats with Lord Dowding during filming at Hawkinge.
(Photo from Alan Tomkins, text from Robert J. Rudhall's "Battle of Britain Film - The Photo Album")

Organizational chart for the movie's technical advisory team
(Source: Flight International magazine, Sept. 11, 1969)
 

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