Clive Donner

 Clive Donner was among the leading film directors of swinging London. The four films that made his name were a low-budget adaptation of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker (1963); Nothi…

Peter Morley

…ils to safety in Britain. Early on, Peter conceived an ambition to work in film, and after leaving school he got a job as a “rewind boy” at the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road. A vo…

Karel Reisz

After Cambridge he taught in London. Wrote a landmark study " The Technique of Film Editing "  Directed short films  shown at NFT where he was Programme Manager. He directed 9 feature films …

Sue (Susan) Crockford

…ine Art at Leeds University where she began an interest in writing contemporary film as part of her degree and, against academic convention for her course, her final dissertation was on two film direc…

Joe Mendoza

Joined Merchant Navy. To GPO film unit in war. Editing departnet.

Lindsay Anderson

As a director of documentaries, feature films and theatre, a film critic, and an galvinizing force in the Free Cinema movement, Lindsay Anderson can claim to have had a profound influence over British…

Norman Spencer

Anything to do with films had now become a hobby.When he left school, he bought a Pathescope 9.5 mm. projector, looked up the company's address in the 'phone book and applied for a job, but it came to…

Tudor Gates

Met Al Rosen in car park, an agent. Wrote a picture for him, Troubled Waters, first feature film. Made by Sagittarius.

Mel Faber

…of us were kept on as the army of occupation.  didn't want to go back into film distribution. a salesman for more than a month - After a little while, again through father  Sydney …

Edwin (Ted) Astley

…Gently1957 The End of the Line1957 Zoo Baby1957 Danger List   [Hammer Film]1958 Toto and the Poachers1958 Dublin Nightmare1958 Jack the Ripper1958 Three Crooked Men (with Albert Elms)1958 Wh…