This is Filmed in London, Or Is It?

[Stephen Pickard]

I thought it would be interesting to start a thread on films set in London but, mostly, filmed in the US. I have been convinced on several occasions, only to find that it was mostly in the US, except for maybe a 2nd unit in London with convincing doubles or on other occasions there were genuine British actors playing roles, then to find that they live in the US. There were several occasions when actors were paid to come to Hollywood to appear in a film set in London!
I have put just a few and maybe a few obvious titles to kick off the thread:
1) My Fair Lady
2) Midnight Lace
3) Waterloo Bridge (?)
....etc,etc.

Maybe I should expand it to include England.
4) The Uninvited (1944)

[Stephen Pickard]

Time After Time
The Lodger
Hangover Square
The Invisible Man

[alan french]

Hi,
Can't name the episode, but there was an edition of The Six Million Dollar Man which contained a scene at Heathrow. It was painfully obvious it was not shot there.
Alan French.

[Cooper S]

Hollywood London and/or England -

Rebecca
Parts of Foreign Correspondent
Suspicion
Dial 'M' for Murder.

The wonderful 'Man From Uncle' compilation One of Our Spies is Missing.

[cornershop15]

Dial 'M' for Murder.

Thanks for reminding me, Cooper. Looking through old screencaps, I must have thought of 'Who are these people???' when I did this one:



Good idea for a thread, Stephen It's years since I've seen it but wasn't Fritz Lang's Man Hunt partly set in London and filmed in Hollywood?

[HUGHJAMPTON]

The other Hitchcock film partly set in "Hollywood London" is Foreign Correspondent, with the none too realistic Westminster Abbey

Which I now see Cooper S has included, so, oops!

[GRAEME]

Hi,
Can't name the episode, but there was an edition of The Six Million Dollar Man which contained a scene at Heathrow. It was painfully obvious it was not shot there.
Alan French.

And the hilarious triple episode of Batman set in Olde Londinium!

[Cooper S]

Another one of my 40s favourites -

Ministry of Fear

[cassidy]

I'm still unsure about one of my favourite films "Witness for the Prosecution". The action takes place in London but was it filmed there ?

[GRAEME]

I'm still unsure about one of my favourite films "Witness for the Prosecution". The action takes place in London but was it filmed there ?

According to IMDB, it was filmed at MGM studios in Culver City, California, USA

[ChuckEddie]

What about the Rathbone 'Holmes' films?

[DaveK]

'23 Paces to Baker Street' with the famous view over the River Thames from somewhere near the Marylebone Road. Or was that actually shot here?

[Gerald Lovell]

The second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much did have a lot of location work in London, but it was mainly filmed at Paramount Studios in LA. In one scene, an embassy guard played by Milton Frome opens a (Paramount) doorway, then comes out to a (London) exterior as Walter Gotell, then goes back inside (Paramount) where he's Milton Frome again.

[GRAEME]

'23 Paces to Baker Street' with the famous view over the River Thames from somewhere near the Marylebone Road. Or was that actually shot here?

That's a funny one - there certainly were location shots in London, but I'm not sure the main stars made it over from Hollywood. There is a thread on that somewhere.

[Gerald Lovell]

In On the Double (1961), again mainly made at Paramount, in the London location shoots, star Danny Kaye was allegedly doubled by Jon Pertwee.

[Cooper S]

In On the Double (1961), again mainly made at Paramount, in the London location shoots, star Danny Kaye was allegedly doubled by Jon Pertwee.

Not sure about On The Double, but I believe Knock on Wood featured London/England scenes with JP standing in for DK.

[Big Figure]

The first series of 'Bulman' was shot in Manchester but was supposedly set in London. Each episode featured a London Routemaster bus and an Evening Standard delivery van somewhere in a scene. It became a game after a while waiting for them to appear.

[Gerald Lovell]

Not sure about On The Double, but I believe Knock on Wood featured London/England scenes with JP standing in for DK.

Yes, I think you're right!

London in modern day DOCTOR WHO and in THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES is usually Cardiff.

[cassidy]

Thanks for that, love that film. cassidy.

According to IMDB, it was filmed at MGM studios in Culver City, California, USA

[Gerald Lovell]

According to IMDB, it was filmed at MGM studios in Culver City, California, USA

It appears that location filming in London was carried out. As for the studio work, other sources say this was at Samuel Goldwyn Studios, Santa Monica Boulevard, LA.