Antony Darnborough

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Antony Charles Darnborough (born October 6, 1913 in Weybridge , County Surrey , Great Britain , † September 24, 2000 in London ) was a British film producer and occasional film director in the 1940s and 1950s.

Live and act

Darnborough had attended Beaumont College at Old Windsor and began his career in 1932 as a reporter for the Daily Mail . His areas of expertise there were theater and film. He came to film in 1944 and was assistant production to Sydney , Muriel and Betty Box between 1945 and 1947 in the making of The Last Veil, The Years Between, Daybreak, The Perfect Killer , Abysses and The Battle for Jimmy .

At the end of 1947 Antony Darnborough began producing for Gainsborough Pictures . He made dramas and melodramas, crime films and comedies. Darnborough achieved his greatest successes between 1948 and 1951 with three adaptations of short stories penned by Somerset Maugham, most of which were critically acclaimed : Quartet, So ist das Leben and Dacapo . As early as 1956 his activity for the cinema ended, and Antony Darnborough only produced television films and documentaries.

Filmography (complete)

as a producer of feature films, unless otherwise stated

  • 1947: Decision in Ascot (The Calendar)
  • 1947: The Man Without a Conscience (My Brother's Keeper)
  • 1948: quartet (Quartet)
  • 1948: Portrait From Life
  • 1948: When Women Dream (Once Upon a Dream)
  • 1949: Helter Skelter
  • 1949: Boys in Brown
  • 1949: The Astonished Heart (also co-director)
  • 1949: Traveller's Joy
  • 1950: Paris at midnight (So ​​Long at the Fair) (co-director only)
  • 1950: That's Life (Trio)
  • 1951: Highly Dangerous
  • 1951: Dakapo (Encore)
  • 1952: The Net
  • 1953: Your first experience (Personal Affair)
  • 1955: After Paris with Love (To Paris with Love)
  • 1956: The baby on the battleship (The Baby and the Battleship)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 290.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antony Darnborough in: Sydney Box , Andrew Spicer, Manchester University Press, 2006, page 89
personal data
SURNAME Darnborough, Antony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darnborough, Antony Charles (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Weybridge , UK
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2000
Place of death London