The son of British comic actor Nelson Keys (1887-1939) and brother of producer Anthony Nelson Keys, John Paddy Carstairs began his own film career as an assistant cameraman. By age 21, Carstairs was an established screenwriter, and at 24 he turned director with Paris Plane (1934). A more than competent journeyman, Carstairs specialized in mysteries (such as the 1939 Anglo-American production The Saint in London) and frothy comedies. Beginning in 1953, he was a principal writer/director of the popular Norman Wisdom film farces. A talented painter and comic novelist, John Paddy Carstairs was the author of three sprightly autobiographies: Honest Injun (1942), Hadn't We the Gaiety (1945), Kaleidoscope and a Jaundiced Eye (1946).
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Hudd
Producer |
1965 | |||
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The Devil's Agent
Director |
1962 | |||
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A Weekend with Lulu
Director |
1961 | |||
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And the Same to You
Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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Sands of the Desert
Director, Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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Tommy the Toreador
Director |
1960 | |||
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The Square Peg
Director |
1958 | |||
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Just My Luck
Director |
1957 | |||
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Up in the World
Director |
1957 | |||
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Jumping for Joy
Director |
1956 | |||
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The Big Money
Director |
1956 | |||
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A Yank in Ermine
Book Author, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Man of the Moment
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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One Good Turn
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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The Crowded Day
Short Story Author |
1954 | |||
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Up to His Neck
Director, Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Top of the Form
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Trouble in Store
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Little Big Shot
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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Made in Heaven
Director |
1952 | |||
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Treasure Hunt
Director |
1952 | |||
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You Can't Beat the Irish
Director |
1952 | |||
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Tony Draws a Horse
Director |
1951 | |||
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Fools Rush In
Director |
1949 | |||
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Director |
1949 | |||
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Dancing with Crime
Director |
1947 | |||
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Director |
1945 | |||
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He Found a Star
Director |
1941 | |||
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All Hands
Director |
1940 | |||
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Spare a Copper
Director |
1940 | |||
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The Lambeth Walk
Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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The Second Mr. Bush
Director |
1940 | |||
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Maxwell Archer, Detective
Director |
1939 | |||
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The Saint in London
Director |
1939 | |||
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A Yank at Oxford
Screenwriter |
1938 | |||
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Lassie from Lancashire
Director |
1938 | |||
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Double Exposures
Director |
1937 | |||
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Holiday's End
Director |
1937 | |||
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Incident in Shanghai
Director, Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Missing, Believed Married
Director |
1937 | |||
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Night Ride
Director |
1937 | |||
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The Captain's Table
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Two's Company
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Hope of His Side
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Where's George?
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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While Parents Sleep
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Boomerang
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Gay Love
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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It's a Boy
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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It's a Cop
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Lost in the Legion
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Trouble Ahead
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Paris Plane
Director |
1933 | |||
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Footsteps in the Night
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Love on the Spot
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Nine Till Six
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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The Water Gypsies
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Woman in Bondage
Screenwriter |
1932 |

