Ivor Montagu

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Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (born April 23, 1904 in London , † November 5, 1984 in London) was an English filmmaker, film editor , film producer , film critic , table tennis player and leftist politician .

From 1926 to 1967 he was president of the world table tennis association ITTF .

Life

Montagu studied botany and zoology at the Royal Science College, later zoology at King's College , Cambridge , from which he graduated with a Masters Degree . As a left-wing politician and activist, he was a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain and later of the Communist Party until the end of his life . In 1927 the banker's son Ivor Montagu secretly married the typist Eileen Hellstern, the daughter of a shoemaker, in London.

Ivor Montagu died on November 5, 1984, one month after his wife passed away.

Movie

Montagu founded the London Film Society in 1925 with Sidney Bernstein , one of the first film clubs to show independent films and import films from abroad. During this time Montagu began making short films himself , which he himself produced, directed and edited . In part he wrote the scripts for his own films. As a film critic Montagu published his contributions in the Observer, among others .

His political activity led to the acquaintance of Sergei Eisenstein , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. Montagu traveled with Eisenstein through Europe and later to Hollywood . Montagu described his experiences on this trip in the book With Eisenstein in Hollywood .

Montagu, who later made propaganda films for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War in Spain, produced and worked with the young Alfred Hitchcock in the late 1920s (as a film editor) and in the mid-1930s (as a producer) . In 1926, Hitchcock's first thriller The Tenant was created , which only received the lender's blessing after Montagu's post-production and thus helped establish Hitchcock's fame.

In 1934 he produced the documentary about the first flight over Mount Everest ( Wings Over Everest ), which won an Oscar for best short film in 1936 . In 1935 and 1936, Montagu was the producer of the Hitchcock thriller The 39 Steps , secret agent and sabotage . In 1948 he wrote the screenplay for Scott's Last Voyage , which is based on the diaries of the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Montagu, who was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow on May 1, 1959 , began working for television in the late 1950s. He previously wrote the screenplay for Terence Fisher's court film The Last Man to Hang in 1956 .

Table tennis

Ivor Montagu was the third and youngest son of Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling, a financier, and his wife, Lady Gladys Goldsmid Montagu Swaythling (1879-1965), who donated the team cup at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships, which was subsequently named Swaythling Cup received.

Ivor Montagu, who himself was a top player in this sport, organized this World Cup in 1926. In 1926 he founded the English Table Tennis Association , of which he was chairman until 1966. In the same year he co-founded the world association ITTF and became its first president. It was important to him to classify all table tennis associations as equal. He held the office of president until 1967. During this time the number of members increased from 4 to 160 nations. He was succeeded by Roy Evans .

His books Table Tennis Today (1924) and Table Tennis (1936) were well known. In 1970 he wrote an autobiography The Youngest Son .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Ivor Montagu died , DTS magazine , 1984/12 page 12
  • Jupp Schlaf: On the 60th birthday of ITTF President Ivor Montagu , DTS magazine , 1964/8 West issue page 8
  • Communism and table tennis. A portrait by Ivor Montagu
  • Obituaries by Roy Evans (President of the World TT Federation ITTF) and Tom Blunn (President of the English TT Federation ETTA) in Table Tennis News magazine, No. 147, December 1984, pages 40-41 (English) Online (accessed 19 November 2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,722953-1,00.html
  2. ^ Table Tennis News, No. 147, December 1984, page 41 (accessed November 19, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/IvorGoldsmidMontagu.htm
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1966/22 edition south-west side 11
  5. ↑ amazon.de (accessed on April 16, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Montagu, Ivor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English filmmaker, film editor, film producer, film critic, table tennis player and left-wing politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1984
Place of death London