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Walter Percy Day

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Walter Percy Day O.B.E. (1878–1965) was a British painter best remembered for his work as a matte artist and special effects technician in the film industry. [1]

184 relations: A Canterbury Tale, A Man About the House, A Matter of Life and Death (film), A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film), Abel Gance, Action for Slander, Albert Lewin, Alexander Korda, Alexandre Volkoff, Alfred Hitchcock, An Ideal Husband (1947 film), André Berthomieu, André Hugon, Anna Karenina (1948 film), Anthony Asquith, Anthony Kimmins, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Battle of Agincourt, Bedfordshire, Benito Perojo, Black Narcissus, Blithe Spirit (film), Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film), Borehamwood, Brian Desmond Hurst, Brief Encounter, Buckinghamshire, Caesar and Cleopatra (film), Cagliostro (1929 film), Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Christopher Challis, Claude Autant-Lara, Conquest of the Air, Croquette (film), Dark Journey (film), David Lean, Denham Film Studios, Elephant Boy (film), Elstree, Emlyn Williams, End of the World (1931 film), Eugen Schüfftan, Fire Over England, Forget Me Not (1936 film), Gabriel Pascal, Georges Méliès, Germaine Dulac, Gone to Earth (film), Great Expectations (1946 film), ..., Gulf of Corryvreckan, Hanns Schwarz, Harold French, Henri Desfontaines, Henri Diamant-Berger, Henry Edwards (actor), Henry Hathaway, Henry Roussel, Henry V (1944 film), Herbert Wilcox, I Know Where I'm Going! (film), I, Claudius (film), Ian Dalrymple, In Which We Serve, Jack Conway (filmmaker), Jacques Feyder, Jamaica Inn (film), Jean Kemm, Jean Negulesco, Jean Renoir, Jellaz Cemetery, Josef von Sternberg, Julien Duvivier, Jungle Book (1942 film), Knight Without Armour, La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin, Laurence Olivier, Léon Gaumont, Léon Poirier, Leslie Arliss, Leslie Howard, Los Angeles, Lothar Mendes, Louis Mercanton, Ludwig Berger (director), Luton, Lydia (film), Major Barbara (film), Marco de Gastyne, Matte (filmmaking), Men of Two Worlds, Michael Powell, Michel Strogoff (1926 film), Mine Own Executioner, Moscow Nights (film), Nana (1926 film), Napoléon (1927 film), Noël Coward, Oliver Twist (1948 film), Order of the British Empire, Outcast of the Islands, Over the Moon (film), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Panique, Paradise for Two, Perfect Strangers (1945 film), Peter Ellenshaw, Pinewood Studios, Powell and Pressburger, Prison Without Bars, Q Planes, Raymond Bernard, Rembrandt (1936 film), René Clair, René Hervil, Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Richard Oswald, Robert Boudrioz, Robert Donat, Robert J. Flaherty, Russell Lloyd (film editor), Saint Joan the Maid, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Sanders of the River, Scrooge (1935 film), Secret Mission, Shepperton Studios, Sixty Glorious Years, South Riding (film), Storm in a Teacup (film), That Hamilton Woman, The Black Rose, The Chess Player, The Cure for Love, The Demi-Paradise, The Divine Voyage, The Divorce of Lady X, The Drum (1938 film), The Elusive Pimpernel, The Fallen Idol (film), The First of the Few, The Flame (1926 film), The Four Feathers (1939 film), The Ghost Goes West, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), The Independent, The Last Days of Dolwyn, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Loves of Casanova, The Maelstrom of Paris, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Mikado (1939 film), The Mudlark, The Princess and the Clown, The Private Life of Don Juan, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Promised Land (1925 film), The Ring (1927 film), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film), The Spy in Black, The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film), The Third Man, The Three Masks, The Three Musketeers (1932 film), The Thruster, The Winslow Boy (1948 film), Things to Come, This Happy Breed (film), Thornton Freeland, Thorold Dickinson, Tim Whelan, Verdun: Visions of History, Victor Saville, Victor Schertzinger, Victor Tourjansky, Victoria the Great, William Cameron Menzies, William Dieterle, William K. Howard, William Wyler, Wine Cellars (film), Wuthering Heights (1939 film), Zoltan Korda, 49th Parallel (film). Expand index (134 more) »

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles.

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A Man About the House

A Man About the House is a black-and-white British film directed by Leslie Arliss and released in 1947.

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A Matter of Life and Death (film)

A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War.

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A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)

A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities set in London and Paris.

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Abel Gance

Abel Gance (25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor.

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Action for Slander

Action for Slander is a 1937 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Clive Brook, Ann Todd and Googie Withers.

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Albert Lewin

Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alexandre Volkoff

Alexandre Volkoff (Russian Александр Александрович Волков, transliteration Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Volkov, 1885–1942) was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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An Ideal Husband (1947 film)

An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 film Technicolor adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.

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André Berthomieu

André Berthomieu (16 February 1903 – 10 April 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.

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André Hugon

André Hugon (17 December 1886 – 22 August 1960) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards, particularly of the 1920s and into sound.

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Anna Karenina (1948 film)

Anna Karenina is a 1948 British film based on the 19th-century novel of the same title by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

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Anthony Asquith

Anthony William Lars Asquith (9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was a leading English film director.

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Anthony Kimmins

Anthony Martin Kimmins (born 10 November 1901 – 19 May 1964) was an English director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor.

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Auguste and Louis Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean; 5 October 1864 – 7 June 1948), were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

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Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt (Azincourt) was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.

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Benito Perojo

Benito Perojo (Madrid, 14 June 1894 – Madrid, 11 November 1974), was a successful Spanish film director and film producer.

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus is a 1947 NR Technicolor drama film by the British writer-producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.

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Blithe Spirit (film)

Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British fantasy-comedy film directed by David Lean.

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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film)

Bonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it.

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Borehamwood

Borehamwood (—formerly spelt Boreham Wood), is a town in southern Hertfordshire.

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Brian Desmond Hurst

Brian Desmond Hurst (12 February 1895 – 26 September 1986) was a Belfast-born film director.

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Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Caesar and Cleopatra (film)

Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.

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Cagliostro (1929 film)

Cagliostro is a 1929 French-German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel and Alfred Abel.

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Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Christopher Challis

Christopher George Joseph Challis BSC, FRPS (18 March 1919 – 31 May 2012) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 70 feature films since beginning in the industry during the 1940s.

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Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara (5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

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Conquest of the Air

Conquest of the Air is a 1936 documentary film or docudrama on the history of aviation, until the early stages of World War II.

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Croquette (film)

Croquette is a 1927 French silent film directed by Louis Mercanton and starring Betty Balfour, Walter Byron and Nicolas Koline.

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Dark Journey (film)

Dark Journey is a 1937 British spy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh.

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David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).

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Denham Film Studios

Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.

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Elephant Boy (film)

Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Sabu in his film debut.

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Elstree

Elstree is a village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England.

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Emlyn Williams

George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

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End of the World (1931 film)

End of the World (La Fin du monde) is a 1931 French science fiction film directed by Abel Gance based on the novel Omega: The Last Days of the World by Camille Flammarion.

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Eugen Schüfftan

Eugen Schüfftan (21 July 1893, Breslau, Silesia, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland – 6 September 1977, New York City) was a German Jewish cinematographer.

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Fire Over England

Fire Over England (aka Gloriana) is a 1937 London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

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Forget Me Not (1936 film)

Forget Me Not is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner and Ivan Brandt.

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Gabriel Pascal

Gabriel Pascal (born Gábor Lehel) (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian-born film producer and director whose best known films were made in the United Kingdom.

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Georges Méliès

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

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Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic.

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Gone to Earth (film)

Gone to Earth (1950) is a British Technicolor film by the director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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Great Expectations (1946 film)

Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.

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Gulf of Corryvreckan

The Gulf of Corryvreckan (from the Gaelic Coire Bhreacain meaning "cauldron of the speckled seas" or "cauldron of the plaid"), also called the Strait of Corryvreckan, is a narrow strait between the islands of Jura and Scarba, in Argyll and Bute, off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Hanns Schwarz

Hanns Schwarz was an Austrian film director.

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Harold French

Harold French (23 April 1897 – 19 October 1997) was an English film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Henri Desfontaines

Henri Desfontaines (12 November 1876, Paris – 7 January 1931, Paris) was a French film director, actor and scriptwriter.

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Henri Diamant-Berger

Henri Diamant-Berger (9 June 1895 – 7 May 1972) was a French director, producer and screenwriter.

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Henry Edwards (actor)

Henry Edwards (18 September 1882 – 2 November 1952) was an English actor and film director.

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Henry Hathaway

Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer.

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Henry Roussel

Henry Roussel (1875–1946), also known as Henry Roussell, was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.

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Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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Herbert Wilcox

Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977), was a British film producer and director who was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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I Know Where I'm Going! (film)

I Know Where I'm Going is a 1945 romance film by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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I, Claudius (film)

I, Claudius is an unfinished 1937 film adaptation of the novels I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1935) by Robert Graves.

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Ian Dalrymple

Ian Dalrymple (26 August 1903 – 28 March 1989) was a British screenwriter, film director, film editor and film producer.

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In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean.

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Jack Conway (filmmaker)

Jack Ryan Conway (July 17, 1887 – October 11, 1952) was an American film director and film producer, as well as an actor of many films in the first half of the 20th century.

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Jacques Feyder

Jacques Feyder (21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany.

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Jamaica Inn (film)

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds").

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Jean Kemm

Jean Kemm (15 May 1874–1939) was a French stage and theater actor and film director.

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Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; 29 February 1900 (O.S.) – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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Jellaz Cemetery

Jellaz Cemetery (also known as al-Jallaz) is a large hillside Muslim cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, established in the thirteenth century.

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Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg, (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director.

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Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896, Lille – 29 October 1967, Paris) was a French film director.

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Jungle Book (1942 film)

Jungle Book is a 1942 British/American independent Technicolor action-adventure film by the Hungarian Korda brothers, based on a screenplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, about a wild boy who is kidnapped by villagers who are cruel to animals as they attempt to steal dead king's cursed treasure.

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Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour (styled as Knight Without Armor in some releases) is a 1937 British historical drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat.

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La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin

La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (The Miraculous Life of Thérèse Martin), is a French film, silent, directed by Julien Duvivier, and released in 1929.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Léon Gaumont

Léon Gaumont (10 May 1864 – 9 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry.

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Léon Poirier

Léon Poirier (August 25, 1884 – June 27, 1968) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards.

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Leslie Arliss

Leslie Arliss (6 October 1901, London – 30 December 1987, Jersey, Channel Islands) was an English screenwriter and director.

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Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer.

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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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Lothar Mendes

Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 25 February 1974) was a German-born screenwriter and film director.

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Louis Mercanton

Louis Mercanton (4 May 1879 – 29 April 1932) was a Swiss film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Ludwig Berger (director)

Ludwig Berger (born Ludwig Bamberger; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.He directed 36 films between 1920 and 1969.

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Luton

Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.

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Lydia (film)

Lydia is a 1941 drama film, directed by Julien Duvivier.

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Major Barbara (film)

Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison.

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Marco de Gastyne

Marc Henri Benoist better known as Marco de Gastyne (born in Paris, France, on 15 July 1889; died in Paris on 8 November 1982) was a French painter, illustrator and later film director of more than fifteen films.

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Matte (filmmaking)

Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image.

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Men of Two Worlds

Men of Two Worlds is a 1946 British Technicolor drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Robert Adams, Eric Portman and Phyllis Calvert.

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Michael Powell

Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.

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Michel Strogoff (1926 film)

Michel Strogoff is a 1926 French silent historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko and Acho Chakatouny.

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Mine Own Executioner

Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 British psychological thriller drama film starring Burgess Meredith and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin.

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Moscow Nights (film)

This film is not to be confused with the very popular Russian Song Moscow Nights Moscow Nights (released as I Stand Condemned in the United States) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Harry Baur.

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Nana (1926 film)

Nana (1926) is Jean Renoir's second full-length silent film and is based on the novel by Émile Zola.

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Napoléon (1927 film)

Napoléon is a 1927 silent French epic film written, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Oliver Twist (1948 film)

Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands is a 1951 film directed by Carol Reed based on Joseph Conrad's novel An Outcast of the Islands.

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Over the Moon (film)

Over the Moon is a 1939 British Technicolor comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans and Herbert Lomas.

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British Technicolor drama film made by Romulus Films and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States.

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Panique

Panique is a French film directed by Julien Duvivier, made in 1946 and released in 1947, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance.

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Paradise for Two

Paradise for Two is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jack Hulbert, Patricia Ellis and Arthur Riscoe.

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Perfect Strangers (1945 film)

Perfect Strangers (United States title: Vacation from Marriage), is a 1945 British drama film made by London Films.

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Peter Ellenshaw

William Samuel Cook "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24, 1913 – February 12, 2007) was an English matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features.

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Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, about from Slough, from Uxbridge, and approximately west of central London.

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Powell and Pressburger

The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Prison Without Bars

Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British black-and-white crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best and Barry K. Barnes.

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Q Planes

Q Planes (known as Clouds Over Europe in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson.

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Raymond Bernard

Raymond Bernard (10 October 1891 – 12 December 1977) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than forty years.

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Rembrandt (1936 film)

Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.

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René Hervil

René Hervil (1881–1960) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott and James Mason.

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Richard Oswald

Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Robert Boudrioz

Robert Pierre Frédéric Boudrioz (12 February 1887 – 22 June 1949) was a French screenwriter and film director.

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Robert Donat

Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 19059 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor.

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Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty, (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).

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Russell Lloyd (film editor)

Russell Lloyd (16 January 1916 – 21 January 2008) was a British-born film editor who amassed fifty credits on feature films.

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Saint Joan the Maid

Saint Joan the Maid or The Marvellous Life of Joan of Arc (French: La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1929 French-German silent historical drama film directed by Marco de Gastyne and starring Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly and Georges Paulais.

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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Sanders of the River

Sanders of the River is a 1935 British film directed by the Hungarian-British director, Zoltán Korda, based on the stories of Edgar Wallace.

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Scrooge (1935 film)

Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran.

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Secret Mission

Secret Mission is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver.

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Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931.

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Sixty Glorious Years

Sixty Glorious Years is a 1938 British colour film directed by Herbert Wilcox.

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South Riding (film)

South Riding is a 1938 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and produced by Alexander Korda, starring Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn and Ann Todd.

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Storm in a Teacup (film)

Storm in a Teacup is a 1937 British romantic comedy film directed by Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville and starring Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison in his first starring role, Cecil Parker, and Sara Allgood.

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That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman, (also known as Lady Hamilton and The Enchantress), is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for his British company during his exile in the United States.

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The Black Rose

The Black Rose is a 1950 20th Century Fox Technicolor film starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, loosely based on Thomas B. Costain's book.

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The Chess Player

The Chess Player (Le Joueur d'échecs) is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel.

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The Cure for Love

The Cure for Love is a 1949 British comedy film starring and directed by Robert Donat.

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The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise (also known as Adventure for Two) is a 1943 British comedy film made by Two Cities Films.

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The Divine Voyage

The Divine Voyage (French: La divine croisière) is a 1929 French silent film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Murat, Thomy Bourdelle and Suzanne Christy.

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The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 British colour romantic comedy film made by London Films; it stars Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes.

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The Drum (1938 film)

The Drum (released in the U.S. as Drums) is a 1938 British Technicolor film from the book The Drum by A. E. W. Mason.

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The Elusive Pimpernel

The Elusive Pimpernel is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.

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The Fallen Idol (film)

The Fallen Idol (also known as The Lost Illusion) is a 1948 film directed by Carol Reed and based on the short story "The Basement Room", by Graham Greene.

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The First of the Few

The First of the Few (US title Spitfire) is a 1942 British black-and-white biographical film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, who stars as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.

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The Flame (1926 film)

The Flame (French: La flamme) is a 1926 French silent drama film directed by René Hervil and starring Germaine Rouer, Charles Vanel and Henry Vibart.

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The Four Feathers (1939 film)

The Four Feathers is a 1939 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith.

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The Ghost Goes West

The Ghost Goes West (1935) is a British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by René Clair, his first English-language film.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American film starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Last Days of Dolwyn

The Last Days of Dolwyn (renamed Women of Dolwyn for the American market) is a 1949 British drama film directed by Russell Lloyd and Emlyn Williams and starring Edith Evans, Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton and Anthony James.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers.

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The Loves of Casanova

The Loves of Casanova or Casanova is a 1927 French historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti and Diana Karenne.

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The Maelstrom of Paris

The Maelstrom of Paris or The Whirlwind of Paris (French:Le tourbillon de Paris) is a 1928 French silent film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Lil Dagover, Léon Bary and Gaston Jacquet.

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes.

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The Mikado (1939 film)

The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name.

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The Mudlark

The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox.

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The Princess and the Clown

The Princess and the Clown (French:La princesse aux clowns) is a 1924 French silent film directed by André Hugon and starring Huguette Duflos, Charles de Rochefort and Magda Roche.

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The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume.

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 British film, directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester.

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The Promised Land (1925 film)

The Promised Land (French:La terre promise) is a 1925 French silent film directed by Henry Roussel and starring Pierre Blanchar, Raquel Meller and André Roanne.

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The Ring (1927 film)

The Ring is a 1927 British silent sports film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.

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The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black (US: U-Boat 29) is a 1939 British film, and the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor Arabian fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by Korda's brothers Vincent and Zoltán and William Cameron Menzies.

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The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.

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The Three Masks

The Three Masks (French:Les trois masques) is a 1929 French film directed by André Hugon and starring Renée Héribel, Jean Toulout and François Rozet.

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The Three Musketeers (1932 film)

The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1932 French historical adventure film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan and Thomy Bourdelle.The film is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, and was the first version to be as a sound film.

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The Thruster

The Thruster (French:L'arriviste) is a 1924 French silent film directed by André Hugon and starring Pierre Blanchar, Jeanne Helbling and Ginette Maddie.

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The Winslow Boy (1948 film)

The Winslow Boy is a 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy.

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Things to Come

Things to Come (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British black-and-white science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.

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This Happy Breed (film)

This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean.

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Thornton Freeland

Thornton Freeland (February 10, 1898 – May 22, 1987) was an American film director who directed 26 British and American films in a career that lasted from 1924 to 1949.

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Thorold Dickinson

Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britain's first university professor of film.

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Tim Whelan

Tim Whelan (November 2, 1893 – August 12, 1957) was an American film director, writer, producer and actor best remembered for The Thief of Bagdad (1940).

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Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History is a 1928 French docudrama film directed by Léon Poirier.

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Victor Saville

Victor Saville (25 September 1895 – 8 May 1979) was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Victor Schertzinger

Victor L. Schertzinger (April 8, 1888 - October 26, 1941) was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

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Victor Tourjansky

Victor Tourjansky (born Viatcheslav Tourjansky; 4 March 1891, Kiev – 13 August 1976, (Munich)) was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla.

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William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an American film production designer (a job title he invented) and art director as well as a film director and producer during a career spanning five decades.

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William Dieterle

William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career.

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William K. Howard

William K. Howard (June 16, 1899 – February 21, 1954) was an American film director, writer, and producer.

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William Wyler

William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Wine Cellars (film)

Wine Cellars (Spanish:La bodega) is a 1930 French-Spanish film directed by Benito Perojo and starring Colette Darfeuil, Valentín Parera and Enrique Rivero.

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Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American drama romance film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

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Zoltan Korda

Zoltan Korda (June 3, 1895 – October 13, 1961) was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.

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49th Parallel (film)

49th Parallel is a 1941 British war drama film; it was the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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References

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