How many decades did the career of the English film director and producer who founded Woodfall Film Productions span?
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Woodfall Film Productions Woodfall Film Productions is a British film production company set up in the late 1950s. It was established by Tony Richardson, John Osborne and Harry Saltzman to make the film version of "Look Back in Anger" (1959) and produced several of the most significant British films of the 1960s. A later Woodfall film, "Tom Jones" (1963), won four Academy Awards in 1964.
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Tony Richardson Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Tom Jones".
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David Green (director) David Green (born 12 November 1948) is a British film director, television producer and media executive.
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Hugh Grant Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work. His films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant first received attention after earning the Volpi Cup for his performance in James Ivory's "Maurice" (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in the Richard Curtis-scripted "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994). Grant used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s, delivering comic performances in films such as "Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999) and "Notting Hill" (1999). One of the best known figures in 1990s British popular culture, Grant was in a high-profile relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, which was the focus of much attention in the British and international media.
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Jack Bond (director) Jack Bond (born 1939) is a British film producer and director. He is best known for his work for "The South Bank Show" and his creative partnership with the British writer, actor and director Jane Arden (1927–1982) between 1965 and 1979.
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Jack Lee (film director) Wilfred John Raymond "Jack" Lee (27 January 1913 – 15 October 2002) was a British film director, screenwriter, editor and producer.
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John Gielgud Sir Arthur John Gielgud ( ; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trio of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31.
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Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television.
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Michael White (producer) Michael Simon White (16 January 1936 – 7 March 2016) was a British Tony Award-winning theatrical impresario and film producer. White produced 101 stage productions and 27 films over 50 years.
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Jimmy Thompson (actor) James Edward Thompson (30 October 1925 – 21 April 2005) was an English actor, writer and director.
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Cyril Appleton Cyril Appleton (born 29 July 1930) is a British stage, television and film actor whose acting career spanned four decades.
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Timothy West Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934), is an English film, stage and television actor.
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Mike Salisbury John Michael "Mike" Salisbury, OBE (born March 1942) is an English documentary filmmaker specialising in natural history programmes for television. In a career spanning four decades, he spent over 30 years working for the BBC Natural History Unit where he produced a string of award-winning series, many in collaboration with David Attenborough. He retired from the Unit in 2006 but continues to work as a freelance producer. In 2007, he was made an OBE in the New Year Honours List for his services to broadcasting.
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Contemporary Films Contemporary Films is the oldest independent film distribution company in the UK. It was founded by Charles Cooper (1910–2001) in 1951. It brought to UK cinemas many acclaimed films from countries around the world, including works by such famous directors as Andrzej Wajda, Milos Forman, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, Satyajit Ray, Yasujirō Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Luis Bunuel. It continues to distribute films to cinemas and TV, and videos and DVDs to the general public, as well as supplying footage to programme-makers.
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Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film director. Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Dangerous Liaisons", "High Fidelity", "The Queen", "Philomena" and "Florence Foster Jenkins". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director for "The Grifters" and "The Queen". In 2008 "The Telegraph" named him among the most influential people in British culture.
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Tom Walls Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.
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Edward Burnham Edward Burnham (25 December 1916 – 30 June 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned over 60 years.
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Pip Broughton Philippa Jane Broughton is an English film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter.
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Jonathan Woodhouse Jonathan Woodhouse (born 1987) is a British actor, director and producer.
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Christopher Morahan Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was an English stage and television director and production executive.
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John Quested (producer) John Quested (born 1935) has been the owner and chairman of Goldcrest Films since the early 1990s. He began his career as a third assistant director on "The Concrete Jungle" in 1960 and has gone on to produce many feature films over the course of his career.
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Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film "Alien" (1979), his best known works include the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982), historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner "Gladiator" (2000), and science fiction film "The Martian" (2015).