Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer.^[1] He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry.^[2] Amongst the films he directed were The Lady Craved Excitement (1950), One Way Out (1955) and It All Goes to Show (1969).^[3]

Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1972.

Selected filmography

• A Girl in a Million (1946)
• Things Happen at Night (1947)
• Man in Black (1949)
• Celia (1949)
• A Case for PC 49 (1951)
• Cloudburst (1951)
• Love's a Luxury (1952)
• Never Look Back (1952)
• Profile (1954)
• Undercover Girl (1958)
• The Diplomatic Corpse (1958)
• Freedom to Die (1961)
• Ticket to Paradise (1961)
• Gaolbreak (1962)
• Emergency (1962)
• Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
• Night of the Prowler (1962)
• The Marked One (1963)
• Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (1966) (short)
• The Pale Faced Girl (1968) (short)
• Talk of the Devil (1968) (short)
• Gold Is Where You Find It (1968) (short)
• It All Goes to Show (1969) (short)
• A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971) (short)
• A Couple of Beauties (1972) (short)