Harold French
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". London, England |
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Actor Film director |
| Years active | 1920–1936 (actor) 1937–1963 (director) |
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| SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from text | Phyllis Arnold (? – 1941); Mary Parker (predeceased him)Template:Pluralize from text |
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| Awards | Locarno International Film Festival Most Entertaining Film 1949 Adam and Evelyne |
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Harold French (23 April 1897 – 19 October 1997)[1] was an English film director, screenwriter and actor.[2]
Biography
After training at the Italia Conti School, he made his acting debut age 12, in a production of The Winter's Tale.[3][4] As an actor, most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936, not gaining as much attention as later he would as a director.[5][3]
He worked as a screenwriter on three of the four films produced by Marcel Hellman's and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s production company Criterion Film Productions in the late 1930s, before switching to film direction in 1937, often with Marcel Hellman as producer.[6][7] From 1940 to 1955, he had several box-office successes as director. This successful period was clouded by the 1941 death of his wife Phyllis in a Luftwaffe bombing raid.[8]
Although he did some television work after 1955, he appears to have retired from directing and acting after 1963.[9] He directed the hit West End play Out of Bounds starring Michael Redgrave in 1962. He died in 1997 at the age of 100.[2]
He was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life in May 1970 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
Director
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- Dead Men are Dangerous (1939)
- The House of the Arrow (1940)
- The Day Will Dawn (1940)
- Jeannie (1941)
- Secret Mission (1942)
- Unpublished Story (1942)
- Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
- Dear Octopus (1943)
- English Without Tears (1944)
- Quiet Weekend (1946)
- Quartet (1948, with Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree and Ralph Smart)
- Adam and Evelyne (1949)
- Trio (1950, with Ken Annakin and Pat Jackson)
- Encore (1951, with Anthony Pelissier)
- The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952)
- The Hour of 13 (1952)
- Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)
- Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953)
- Forbidden Cargo (1954)
- The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
Actor
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- Sister Brown (1921)
- Jealousy (1931)
- East Lynne on the Western Front (1931)
- The Officers' Mess (1931)
- A Tight Corner (1932)
- The Callbox Mystery (1932)
- A Safe Proposition (1932)
- I Adore You (1933)
- Night of the Garter (1933)
- The Umbrella (1933)
- Yes, Madam (1933)
- The Diplomatic Lover (1934)
- Murder at the Inn (1934)
- Faces (1934)
- Two on a Doorstep (1936)
Screenwriter
- Accused (1936)
- Crime Over London (1936)
- Jump for Glory (1937)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.League, The Broadway. "Harold French – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harold French - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 – via Google Books.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Overview for Harold French". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 5 December 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harold French - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harold French". Archived from the original on 25 May 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jeannie (1941)". Archived from the original on 11 September 2017.
- ^ BritMovie: Harold French Script error: No such module "webarchive". Linked 2012-10-14
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.TV.com. "Harold French". TV.com.
External links
- Harold French at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Harold French at the Internet Broadway DatabaseTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The British Entertainment History Project | Harold French |". historyproject.org.uk.
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