- 1992: Collaborated on screenplay (with William Boyd and Goldman) for Attenborough's biopic "Chaplin"; ninth feature with Attenborough
- 1990: Adapted novel "The Endless Game" as a Showtime TV movie; also directed; reunited with George Segal
- 1985: Adapted and directed Sidney Sheldon's novel "The Naked Face", starring Moore
- 1980: Directed first TV drama, "Jessie", starring Nanette Newman
- 1980: Directed Peter O'Toole in Old Vic stage production of "Macbeth"
- 1980: Initial collaboration with Roger Moore, the English segment of the episodic feature "Sunday Lovers"
- 1980: Wrote screenplay for "Hopscotch", starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson; from novel by Brian Garfield
- 1978: Wrote, produced and directed "International Velvet", a sequel to 1944's "National Velvet" with wife Nanette Newman as the adult Velvet Brown
- 1974: Directed "The Stepford Wives" from a screenplay by William Goldman and adapted from the Ira Levin novel
- 1973: Produced and directed two British TV biographies, "I Caught Acting Like the Measles" (Dame Edith Evans) and "Goodbye Norma Jean, and Other Things" (Elton John)
- 1973: Began as director of Capital Radio
- 1971: Resigned post at EMI
- 1970: Angered folks at EMI by taking time to make "The Raging Moon/Long Ago Tomorrow", even though he worked on film without pay
- 1969: Appointed chief of production and managing director of Associated British (EMI)
- 1969: Directed Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer and Evans in "The Madwoman of Chaillot", misfire screen version of the Jean Girdeaux' play
- 1967: Produced, directed and wrote "The Whisperers", a tour de force for Dame Edith Evans who garnered a Best Actress Academy Award nomination
- 1966: Bombed with his second film for Columbia, "The Wrong Box"
- 1965: On his second more successful trip to Hollywood, directed "King Rat", adapted from the James Clavell novel; starred George Segal
- 1964: Produced, wrote and directed "Seance on a Wet Afternoon", adapted from a novel by Mark McShane; starred Attenborough (who also produced) and Kim Stanley, who was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award
- 1962: Wrote, directed and played a small part in "The L-Shaped Room", based on Lynne Reid Banks' novel; star Leslie Caron received a Best Actress Oscar nomination
- 1961: Got first directorial assignment, "Whistle Down the Wind", when Green dropped out; starred Hayley Mills and Alan Bates and was based on a novel by Mills' mother Mary Haley Bell
- 1961: Acted in "The Guns of Navarone"
- 1960: Wrote, co-produced and acted in "The Angry Silence", directed by Guy Green and starring Attenborough
- 1959: Joined forces with Richard Attenborough to form a production company called Beaver Films
- 1955: First screenplay credit, Jose Ferrer's "The Cockleshell Heroes"
- 1953: Wrote article about himself ("Behind the Forbes Frown") under pseudonym of Paul Ridgway
- 1951: Moved to Hollywood with first wife Constance Smith and acted in Raoul Walsh's "The World in His Arms" (1952) before returning to England alone the following year
- 1948: Film actor in "The Small Back Room"
- 1948: Acted on stage in "Gathering Storm"
- 1945: Served in British Army, first in the Intelligence Corps and then in the Combined Forces Entertainment Unit
- 1942: Became a "question master" on a BBC radio quiz program, Junior Brains Trust
- Briefly the fashion critic for SPECTATOR and also wrote for PICTUREGOER (under various pseudonyms)
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