- Denham, Buckinghamshire, England (November 2008)
- English producer, former editor at Gaumont-British from 1934, subsequently with Korda at London Films. He was the son of a clergyman, educated at St John's College, Cambridge. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Artillery, but was eventually seconded to head No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU). In this capacity, he went on to photograph the horrors of the newly liberated concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Between 1949 and 1966, he worked as an independent producer for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood, afterwards reinventing himself as an English teacher at Uxbridge Technical College.
- Although he went into semi-retirement in the late 1960s, he produced several films for the Children's Film Foundation, including "All at Sea" (1970), "Mr. Horatio Knibbles" (1971), and "High Rise Donkey" (1980).
- He began to produce the films of comedian Norman Wisdom, from "Man of the Moment" (1955) onwards, and the comedy duo of Morecambe and Wise.
- He filmed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following its liberation in April 1945.
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