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Charles Crichton was an English film director and film editor. He became best known for directing comedies produced at Ealing Studios. Crichton enjoyed an extremely long career, editing and directing many films and television programmes over a period exceeding 40 years. Crichton gained two Academy... Award nominations for A Fish Called Wanda; one for Best Director and the second for Best Original Screenplay .
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Basil Dearden was an English film director. Dearden was born at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. He graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean. He later changed his own name to Dearden to avoid confusion with his mentor. He first began working as a director at Ealing... Studios, co-directing comedy films with Will Hay, including The Goose Steps Out and My Learned Friend . He worked on the influential chiller compendium Dead of Night and directed the linking narrative and the "Hearse Driver" segment. He also directed The Captive Heart starring Michael Redgrave, a 1946 British war drama, produced by Ealing Studios. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. The Blue Lamp , probably the most frequently shown of Dearden's Ealing films, is a police drama which first introduced audiences to PC George Dixon, later resurrected for the long-running Dixon of Dock Green television series. His last Ealing film, Out of the Clouds, was released in 1955.
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Sidney Henry Cole was a British film and television producer and editor. Cole was educated at the LSE, and entered the film industry as a scenario reader for Stoll Picture Productions, a company founded by Sir Oswald Stoll. A longstanding friend of director Thorold Dickinson, he edited Dickinson's... The High Command and Gaslight and Cavalcanti's Went the Day Well? . Cav he found "a joy" to with and late in his life remained pleased with his work on the film which was "very tightly edited by me". The longest portion of Cole's career though was as a producer, initially credited as an associate producer, for Ealing Studios and the television production company ITC. For ITC he produced Danger Man and Man in a Suitcase . Later he supervised The Adventures of Black Beauty and Dick Turpin for London Weekend Television, the later via the Gatetarn company he founded with Richard Carpenter and Paul Knight. Sidney Cole was politically engaged through much of his career.
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