Cliff Owen

Cliff Owen (22 April 1919 – November 1993) was a British film and TV director best known for his comedy The Wrong Arm of the Law which starred Peter Sellers; he also directed two of the three films featuring the double act Morecambe and Wise made in the mid-1960s, and the big screen version of the BBC sitcom, Steptoe and Son.

Owen was born in London. He died in Oxfordshire in November 1993 aged 74.

Selected filmography

• Brighton Rock (1947) - 3rd assistant director
• Noose (1947) - 2nd assistant director
• Under Capricorn (1949) - 2nd assistant director
• The Hasty Heart (1949) - 3rd assistant director
• Landfall (1949) - 2nd assistant director
• The Magic Box (1951) - assistant director
• Young Wives' Tale (1951) - 2nd assistant director
• Castle in the Air (1952) - assistant director
• Father's Doing Fine (1952) - assistant director
• The Yellow Balloon (1953) - assistant director
• Valley of Song (1953) - assistant director
• London Playhouse (1955) (TV series) - director
• The Seventh Dungeon (1955) (TV movie) - director
• Boyd Q.C. (1956) (TV series) - director
• The New Adventures of Martin Kane (1957) (TV series) - director
• Shadow Squad (1957-59) (TV series) - producer
• ITV Play of the Week (1958-61) (TV series) - director
• The Third Man (1959) (TV series) - director
• Knight Errant Limited (1959) (TV series) - director
• On Trial (1960) (TV series) - director
• Offbeat (1961) - director
• On Trial: The Dilke Case (1961) - director
• Drama 61-67 (1962) (TV series) - producer, director
• A Prize of Arms (1962) - director
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) - director
• The Victorians (1963) (TV series) - director
• A Little Big Business (1964) (TV series) - director
• The Sullavan Brothers (1964) (TV series) - director
• Melina Mercouri's Greece (1965) (documentary) - director
• That Riviera Touch (1966) - director
• Welcome, Mr. Beddoes aka A Man Could Get Killed (1966) - co-director
• The Magnificent Two (1967) - director
• The Vengeance of She (1968) - director
• The Avengers (1968) (TV series) - director
• Rogues' Gallery (1968-69) (TV series) - director
• ITV Playhouse (1969) (TV series) - director
• Confession (1970) (TV series) - director
• The Adventures of Don Quick (1970) (TV series) - director
• Steptoe and Son (1972) - director
• Ooh... You Are Awful (1972) - director
• No Sex Please, We're British (1973) - director
• Closed Up-Tight (1975) - director
• The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) - director