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Cyril Raker Endfield (born November 10, 1914 in Scranton, Pennsylvania – died April 16, 1995 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingdom) was an American screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor, based in Britain from 1953.

In 1951 Endfield was named as a Communist at a HUAC hearing. Subsequently, being blacklisted without work prompted his move to Britain where, under various pseudonyms (to avoid complication with film releases in the U.S.), he wrote and directed films often starring fellow blacklistees, such as Lloyd Bridges and Sam Wanamaker. Three films, The Limping Man (1953), Impulse (1954), and Child in the House (1956) list Charles de la Tour (a documentary filmmaker) as co-director because the ACT (Association of Cine Technicians) insisted Endfield could direct in Britain without being a full member of the union only if he had a British director on set as a standby. Hell Drivers was his first project released under his real name and as well as his debut BAFTA nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay category. Special effects by Ray Harryhausen were a feature in his Mysterious Island (1961).

His best remembered film is Zulu (1964). This project was followed by Sands of the Kalahari (1965) with Susannah York. After a few more independent productions he withdrew from film direction in 1971, his final film being Universal Soldier where he made a cameo appearance with Germaine Greer. In 1979 he wrote the non-fiction book Zulu Dawn, which tells the story of the British military campaign against the Zulu Nation in 1879. A film adaptation of the book was released in the same year, co-written by Endfield and directed by Douglas Hickox.
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