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Edward Black

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Nome de nascimento: Edward Black
Data de nascimento: 18 de agosto de 1900 ( 48 anos)
Falecimento: 30 de novembro de 1948
Atividades: Produtor
Local de nascimento: Birmingham, England, UK
Anos ativo: 1937 - 1948

Edward Black

Edward Black (18 August 1900, Birmingham - 30 November 1948, London) was an English film producer, best known for being head of production at Gainsborough Studios in the late 1930s and early 1940s, during which time he oversaw production of the Gainsborough melodramas. He also produced such classic films as The Lady Vanishes (1938). Black has been called "one of the unsung heroes of the British film industry." Black was the third son of George Black, a property master at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, who became a cinema owner. George Black died in 1910 and his sons Ted, George and Alfred built up the cinema to a circuit. In 1919 they sold this and set about building up another circuit. In 1928 they sold this too - to General Theatre Corporation (GTC). Gaumont British took over GTC and Black went to work for them. In 1928 he became a studio manager for Gainsborough Pictures. In 1930 he moved into production, and became an assistant production manager at Shepherd’s Bush and then studio manager at Islington. In 1935 he was associate producer on Tudor Rose (1936). He took over running of the Islington Studios. In December 1936, Michael Balcon left Gaumont-British for MGM. In March 1937 Shepherd’s Bush studios and Gaumont-British Distributors were closed. However Gainsborough continued as a production center thanks to a deal with C.M. Woolf and J. Arthur Rank’s General Film Distributors. Black was in charge along with Maurice Ostrer. They made movies for Gainsborough and 20th Century Fox. Black specialized in making comedies, thrillers and low-budget musicals. He had a lot of success making comedy vehicles for stars such as Will Hay and Arthur Askey. He also produced early films from Carol Reed and Alfred Hitchcock and was an early supporter of writer directors Sidney Gilliat and Frank Laundner. In the words of one writer, Black "held the studio together during its most difficult period, backed Laundner and Gilliat in establishing a strong script department, retained the services of some of the best cameramen in the business, and put under contract a number of promising actors." In the 1940s Black helped produce the first Gainsborough melodramas an enormously successful series of movies which made stars of James Mason, Stewart Granger and Phyllis Calvert, and increased the popularity of Margaret Lockwood. Black's relationship with Maurice Ostrer was not always easy and he also clashed with the Rank Organisation when they took over Gainsborough. In 1944 Black left Gainsborough to join Alexander Korda. Black died of lung cancer in November 1948, shortly after the premiere of his last film, the disastrous Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948).

Filmografia ( 35 obras)

Ano Nota Título Personagem
1948 - Bonnie Prince Charlie Producer
1945 - Waterloo Road Producer
1944 - 2.000 Mulheres Producer
1944 - Give Us the Moon Producer
1944 - Fanny by Gaslight Producer
1944 - Time Flies Producer
1944 - Bees in Paradise Producer
1943 - Dear Octopus Producer
1943 - O Homem de Cinzento Producer
1943 - Miss London Ltd. Producer
1943 - Milhões Como Nós Producer
1943 - We Dive at Dawn Producer
1942 - The Young Mr. Pitt Producer
1942 - Uncensored Producer
1942 - Partners in Crime Producer
1942 - Back-Room Boy Producer
1941 - Letter from Home Producer
1941 - Cottage to Let Producer
1941 - Kipps Producer
1941 - Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It Producer
1941 - The Ghost Train Producer
1940 - Neutral Port Producer
1940 - Gestapo Producer
1940 - Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt Producer
1940 - Girl in the News Producer
1940 - For Freedom Producer
1940 - They Came by Night Producer
1939 - Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday Producer
1939 - Garotas Apimentadas Producer
1938 - A Dama Oculta Producer
1938 - Crackerjack Producer
1938 - Hey! Hey! USA Producer
1938 - Convict 99 Producer
1938 - Bank Holiday Producer
1937 - Jovem e Inocente Producer


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