Julian Spiro
Family name: Spiro
Work area/Craft/Role: Director, Writer, Producer
Industry: Film
Company: Gaumont British; GPO Film Unit
Interview date(s): 9 May 1997
Interviewer(s): Stephen Peet, Roy Fowler
Production Media: audio
Duration (mins): 180
behp0408-julian-spiro-summary
[Roy Fowler notes that there is not much detail on anything due to the subject’s failing memory. DS]
Writer-producer-director.
To Gaumont British at the Bush [Shepherd’s Bush] as an apprentice on The 39 Steps, in 1935. 3rd and 2nd Assistant on various 1930’s features: Sabotage; Once A Girl; South Riding; Under the Red Robe; Vessel of Wrath; St Martin’s Lane; Jamaica Inn. GPO Film Unit with Harry Watt.
War Service
Eureka Stockade; Marshall Plan [post-World War Two financial aid plan] documentaries for five years.
To Gaumont British at the Bush [Shepherd’s Bush] as an apprentice on The 39 Steps, in 1935. 3rd and 2nd Assistant on various 1930’s features: Sabotage; Once A Girl; South Riding; Under the Red Robe; Vessel of Wrath; St Martin’s Lane; Jamaica Inn. GPO Film Unit with Harry Watt.
War Service
Eureka Stockade; Marshall Plan [post-World War Two financial aid plan] documentaries for five years.
Julian Spiro was born on August 25, 1915 in Cork, Ireland. Julian was a director and assistant director, known for The Changing Face of Europe (1951), Fly with the RAF (1971) and Antarctic Crossing (1959). Julian died in 2006 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
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