Fooling Hitler (2004)
The incredible true story of how a bunch of writers, artists, set designers, and back room technicians pooled their talents in order to outwit the German High Command and fool Hitler. Espionage, counterespionage, decoy airfields, inflatable tanks, guns, and soldiers are all deployed in the run up to D-Day to create a massive diversion and the strongest possible indication that the landings will be in Calais rather than Normandy. A whole invisible army is conjured up: FUSAG, the First US Army Group. Major General Patton is placed in charge of this army, such is its importance he is detained in Britain for several weeks after the Normandy landings in order to successfully convince Hitler that a second and larger set of landings will be staged in Calais.
Director: Philip Smith
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Jason Durr as Lieutenant Colonel Strangeways |
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Howard Attfield as Colonel Turner |
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Grant Burgin as Sergeant Granger |
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Dorian Healy as Major Barkus |
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Coral Beed as Lady Elizabeth Clemens |
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Peter Pacey as Dennis Wheatley |
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Nigel Williams as Brigadier Boyson |
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Roger Barclay as Major T.A. Robertson |
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Peter Wickham as General Mansfield |
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Matt Canavan as Private Williams |
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Kieron Jecchinis as Vicar |
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Jeff Harding as General Stimson |
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Richard Lintern as Colonel Bevan |
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Richard Wills-Cotton as Douglas Fairbanks Jr |
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Daniel Hart as Corporal Collins |
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Angus MacInnes as General Parker |
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Tim Goodman as Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke |
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James Carroll Jordan as General Patton |
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Richard Hodder as Agent Haddock |
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David Acton as BBC Radio Reporter |
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Clara Francis as Felicity |
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Paul T.T. Easter as MP (uncredited) |
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Alex Helm as RAF Technician (uncredited) |
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Tara Summers as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Philip Smith | Director |
| Writing | Philip Smith | Writer |
| Production | Natasha Greenberg | Casting Director |
| Camera | Jeremy Pollard | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Duncan Glasson | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Jake Martin | Editor |
| Production | Gina Marsh | Line Producer |
| Art | Patrick Bill | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Wilson | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sarita Allison | Makeup Designer |
| Sound | Mick Duffield | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Joanna Pratt | Graphic Designer |
| Directing | Gareth Unwin | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Steve Murphy | First Assistant Director |
