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Peter Shaw (producer)

Index Peter Shaw (producer)

Peter Shaw (born Peter Pullen; 24 June 1918 – 29 January 2003) was an English actor and producer and the second husband of actress Angela Lansbury. [1]

73 relations: Adventure film, Alastair Reid (director), Angela Lansbury, Anthony Harvey, Berkshire, Biographical film, Bob Champion, Bride of Frankenstein, British Army, California, Cameo appearance, Castaway (book), Castaway (film), Champions (1984 film), Charles K. Feldman, Cinema of Ireland, Clive of India (film), Comedy film, Corymore Productions, Crime film, Eagle's Wing, Eastmancolor, Enigma (1982 film), Film adaptation, Film producer, Forever Amber (film), Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Orwell, Historical period drama, Horror film, James Whale, Jeannot Szwarc, John Cromwell (director), John Irvin, John Schlesinger, Katharine Hepburn, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (film), Lionel Jeffries, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film), Los Angeles, Lucy Irvine, Maurice Elvey, Max Ophüls, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Murder, She Wrote, Mystery film, Nicolas Roeg, One More River, ..., Otto Preminger, Peter Collinson (film director), Reading, Berkshire, Richard Boleslawski, Robert Bierman, Robert Clive, Robert Mitchum, Screenplay, Something to Hide, Sons of the Sea (film), Taffin, Technicolor, The Exile (1947 film), The Spiral Staircase (1946 film), The Spiral Staircase (1975 film), The Tale of Sweeney Todd, The Water Babies (film), Thriller film, Tony Palmer, Turner Classic Movies, Universal Pictures, William Morris Agency, World War II. Expand index (23 more) »

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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Alastair Reid (director)

Alastair Reid (born 21 July 1939 in Edinburgh — died 17 August 2011 in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset) was a British television director whose credits include the TV series Traffik and Tales of the City and Shout at the Devil.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, (born 16 October 1925) is an English-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and film, as well as a producer and singer.

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Anthony Harvey

Anthony Harvey (3 June 1930 – 23 November 2017) was a British filmmaker who began his career as a teenage actor, was a film editor in the 1950s and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Bob Champion

Robert Champion MBE (born 4 June 1948) is an English former jump jockey who won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti.

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a 1935 American science-fiction horror film, the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 hit Frankenstein.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Castaway (book)

Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on the Australian tropical Torres Strait island of Tuin, having answered a want ad from writer Gerald Kingsland seeking a "wife" for a year in 1982.

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Castaway (film)

Castaway is a 1986 British biographical-drama film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg.

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Champions (1984 film)

Champions is a 1984 film based on the true story of jockey Bob Champion.

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Charles K. Feldman

Charles K. Feldman (April 26, 1905 – May 25, 1968) was a Hollywood attorney, film producer and talent agent who founded the Famous Artists talent agency.

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Cinema of Ireland

The Irish film industry has grown somewhat in recent years thanks partly to the promotion of the sector by Bord Scannán na hÉireann (Irish Film Board) and the introduction of heavy tax breaks.

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Clive of India (film)

Clive of India is a 1935 American historical biographical film, starring Ronald Colman, based on Robert, Lord Clive's life.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Corymore Productions

Corymore Productions is an American television production company that was created and founded in 1987 by producer Peter Shaw, the late husband of actress Angela Lansbury.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Eagle's Wing

Eagle's Wing is a Euro-Western Eastmancolor film made in 1979.

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Eastmancolor

Eastmancolor is a trade name used by Eastman Kodak for a number of related film and processing technologies associated with color motion picture production.

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Enigma (1982 film)

Enigma is a 1982 Anglo-American thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, and Kevin McNally.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Forever Amber (film)

Forever Amber is a 1947 American romantic drama Technicolor film starring Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British novelist and playwright.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theater director and actor.

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Jeannot Szwarc

Jeannot Szwarc (born November 21, 1937) is a French-American director of film and television, known for such films as Jaws 2, ''Somewhere in Time'', and Santa Claus: The Movie.

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John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor.

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John Irvin

John Irvin (born 7 May 1940) is an English film director.

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John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell.

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (film)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States and New Zealand as A Merry War) is a 1997 romance/comedy film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the eponymous novel by George Orwell.

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Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lucy Irvine

Lucy Irvine (born 1 February 1956) is a British adventurer and author.

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Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history.

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Max Ophüls

Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls, was a German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950).

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

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Mystery film

A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.

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Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Jack Roeg (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and former cinematographer.

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One More River

One More River is a 1934 American drama film mystery directed by James Whale.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Peter Collinson (film director)

Peter Collinson (1 April 1936 – 16 December 1980) was a British film director probably best remembered for directing The Italian Job (1969).

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Richard Boleslawski

Richard Boleslavsky or Richard Boleslawski (February 4, 1889 – January 17, 1937) was a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting.

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Robert Bierman

Robert Bierman is an English film and television director.

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Robert Clive

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, was a British officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer.

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Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program.

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Something to Hide

Something to Hide (in the U.S. also reissued as Shattered), is a 1972 British thriller film, written and directed by Alastair Reid, based on a 1963 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat.

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Sons of the Sea (film)

Sons of the Sea is a 1939 British colour drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh, Mackenzie Ward and Cecil Parker.

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Taffin

Taffin is a 1988 Irish thriller film directed by Francis Megahy and starring Pierce Brosnan in the title role of Mark Taffin.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Exile (1947 film)

The Exile (1947) is a adventure romantic film directed by Max Ophüls, and produced, written by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr..

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The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)

The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological horror film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.

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The Spiral Staircase (1975 film)

The Spiral Staircase is a 1975 British horror mystery thriller film directed by Peter Collinson and starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Plummer.

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The Tale of Sweeney Todd

The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a 1998 American crime-drama/horror made-for-TV-movie directed by John Schlesinger.

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The Water Babies (film)

The Water Babies is a 1978 live action-animated feature film, very loosely based on the book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that involves excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941 in London) Retrieved 24 September 2011 is a British film director and author.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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William Morris Agency

The William Morris Agency (also known as WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaw_(producer)

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