Francis Searle

{{Short description|British film director (1909–2002)}}

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{{For|those of the same or a similar name|Frank Searle (disambiguation)}}

Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer.{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee39cea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305235216/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee39cea |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2018 |title=Francis Searle |publisher=British Film Institute }} He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry.{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Robert |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Directors_in_British_and_Irish_Cinema/qzn8DwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Francis+Searle+short+films&pg=PA545&printsec=frontcover |title=Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion |date=2019-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83871-533-5 |language=en}} Amongst the films he directed were The Lady Craved Excitement (1950), One Way Out (1955) and It All Goes to Show (1969).

Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1971 (released in 1973).