Alan Badel’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Alan Badel has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Day of the Jackal.
Recurring themes

Topaz
1969
Drama · Thriller

Seven Days in May
1964
Drama · Thriller

The Premature Burial
1962
Horror · Drama

The Andromeda Strain
1971
Science Fiction · Thriller

The Confessions
2016
Drama · Thriller

Turks & Caicos
2014
Thriller · Drama

Anesthesia
2016
Drama · Thriller

F.I.S.T.
1978
Drama · Action

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Dir. Lindsay Anderson · With Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Dir. James Clavell · With Richard Chamberlain, Toshirō Mifune, Yoko Shimada
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Dir. Anton Leader · With Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach