David Tomblin

Highlighted works

Braveheart

Mel Gibson’s muscular, multi Oscar-winning epic sees 13th-century Scots rebel William Wallace lead a war of independence from English colonial rule.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The third instalment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s adventure series influenced by Saturday morning serials is also the most light-hearted.
Gandhi

The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.
Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick’s exquisitely detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer.

Filmography

2007

Don't Knock Yourself Out

producer (archive footage)
1998

Ever After

2nd Unit Director
1998

The Man in the Iron Mask

Assistant Director (DGA 1st)
1997

Return of the Jedi

2nd Unit Director
Assistant Director
1997

The Enchanted Castle

Assistant Director (1st)
1997

The Empire Strikes Back

Assistant Director (1st)
1995

Braveheart

Assistant Director (1st)
1993

The Three Musketeers

Assistant Director (1st)
1992

Chaplin

Assistant Director (1st)
1992

"Action!..." Sir Richard Attenborough

interviewee
1990

Havana

Assistant Director
1989

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Line producer
1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

UK Product'n Crew 1st Assistant Director
1987

Empire of the Sun

Assistant Director
1987

Cry Freedom

Assistant Director
1985

King David

2nd Unit Director
Assistant Director
1985

Out of Africa

Assistant Director
1984

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Assistant director (UK)
1984

Starlog Magazine #86 David Tomblin Interview

interviewee
1983

Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi

2nd Unit Director
Assistant Director
1983

Never Say Never Again

1st Assistant Director
1982

The Return of the Ewok

Director
Screenplay
choreographer
voice of Darth Vader
1982

Ivanhoe

Assistant Director
1982

Gandhi

Assistant Director
1981

Superman II
1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1st Assistant Director
1980

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
1979

The Prisoner of Zenda

2nd Unit Director
1979

Zulu Dawn

2nd Unit Director
1978

Superman

2nd Unit Direction
1977

A Bridge Too Far

1st Assistant Director
1976

The Infernal Machine

Director
1976

Testament of Arkadia

Director
1976

Another Time, Another Place

Director
1976

The Omen

Assistant Director
[man changing a lightbulb]
1975

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Assistant Director
1975

Barry Lyndon

Assistant Director
1974

Wheels

Director
1973

Shaft in Africa

2nd Unit Director
1973

A Warm December

Assistant Director (1st)
1973

The Long Sleep

Screenplay
1971

Reflections in the Water

Director
Screenplay
1971

Baleia! Baleia!

Director
1970

The Cat with Ten Lives

Directed by
Teleplay
1968

Living in Harmony

Directed by
Produced by
Written by
From a story by
1968

The Girl Who Was Death

Directed by
Produced by
From an idea by
1968

Fall Out

Produced by
1968

Once upon a Time

Produced by
1968

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

Produced by
1967

Free for All

Produced by
1967

Checkmate

Produced by
1967

The Chimes of Big Ben

Produced by
1967

Hammer into Anvil

Produced by
1967

The General

Produced by
1967

It's Your Funeral

Produced by
1967

A Change of Mind

Produced by
1967

Arrival

Produced by
Written by
1967

A.B.and C

Produced by
1967

The Schizoid Man

Produced by
1967

Dance of the Dead

Produced by
1967

Many Happy Returns

Produced by
1966

The Liquidator

Assistant Director
1965

Murder Ahoy

Assistant Director
1965

The Alphabet Murders

Assistant Director
1964

Night Must Fall

Assistant Director
1964

The Haunting
1964

Murder Most Foul

Assistant Director
1962

Guns of Darkness

Assistant Director
1962

We Joined the Navy

Assistant Director
1962

I Thank a Fool

Assistant Director
1961

Under the Lake
1961

Find and Return
1961

The Island

Assistant Director
1961

The Trap
1961

The Relaxed Informer

Assistant Director
1961

Vacation
1961

Hired Assassin

Assistant Director
1961

The Coyannis Story
1961

Taste of Fear

Assistant Director
1961

Dead Man Walks

Assistant Director
1961

The Contessa
1961

The Sorcerer

Assistant Director
1961

The Actor

Assistant Director
1961

The Conspirators

Assistant Director
1961

The Leak

Assistant Director
1961

Name, Date and Place

Assistant Director
1961

Sabotage
1961

Reach for Glory

Assistant Director
1961

Bury the Dead
1961

The Gallows Tree

Assistant Director
1961

The Girl Who Liked GI's

Assistant Director
1961

The Journey Ends Halfway
1961

The Honeymooners

Assistant Director
1960

The Blue Veil
1960

View from the Villa

Assistant Director
1960

Time to Kill
1960

The Girl in Pink Pyjamas
1960

The Sanctuary
1960

The Prisoner

Assistant Director
1960

An Affair of State
1960

The Sisters
1960

The Nurse
1960

The Key
1960

Position of Trust
1960

The Lonely Chair
1960

Colonel Rodriguez
1960

The Traitor
1959

The Traitor

Assistant Director
1959

The Killer

Assistant Director
1959

Secret Weapon

Assistant Director
1959

The Trap

Assistant Director
1959

The Lost Letter

Assistant Director
1959

The Black Brothers

Assistant Director
1959

Landslide

Assistant Director
1959

The Big Plot

Assistant Director
1959

The General's Daughter

Assistant Director
1959

The Unwelcome Stranger

Assistant Director
1959

The Mountain People

Assistant Director
1959

The Ensign

Assistant Director
1959

The Surgeon

Assistant Director
1958

The Baroness

Assistant Director
1958

The Secret Death

Assistant Director
1958

The Cuckoo

Assistant Director
1958

The Boy Slaves

Assistant Director
1958

The Gauntlet of St. Gerhardt

Assistant Director
1958

Three Men on a Raft

Assistant Director
1958

Something Old, Something New

Assistant Director
1958

The Elixir

Assistant Director
1958

Blind Justice

Assistant Director
1958

The Invalid

Assistant Director
1958

Jailbreak

Assistant Director
1958

Voice in the Night

Assistant Director
1958

The Hostages

Assistant Director
Assistant Editor
1958

The Assassins

Assistant Director
1958

Cat & Mouse

First Assistant [Director]
1957

Death of a Don

Assistant Director
1957

The Patient in Room 21

Assistant Director
1957

The Final Curtain

Assistant Director
1957

No Holiday for Murder

Assistant Director
1957

Patron of the Arts

Assistant Director
1957

Backfire

Assistant Director
1956

The Devil's Emissary

Assistant Director
1956

A Toy for the Infanta

Assistant Director
1956

The Hostage

1st Assistant Director
1955

Police Dog

2nd Assistant Director (uncredited)
1951

The Elusive Pimpernel

[Assistant Director (3nd)]
1948

My Brother Jonathan

[Assistant Director (3rd)]
1947

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

[Assistant Director (3rd)]