Jack Lee (director)

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Jack Lee (born January 27, 1913 in Slad , Gloucestershire as Wilfrid John Raymond Lee , † October 15, 2002 in Sydney ) was a British film director and screenwriter . He became known through films such as Die Schwindlerin , Race with Death , March through Hell , The Farm of the Cursed or The Luxury Captain .

life and work

Jack Lee, born in 1913 in the small village of Slad near the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire, England, first studied photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1938 he was hired as a cameraman at GPO Film. During the Second World War , a large amount of image material was created that he used under his own direction in 1942 and 1943 for two war documentaries. After the war, in 1947 he continued his career as a director, which had begun in 1941, with the drama Die Schwindlerin with the cast of Ursula Jeans , Jean Simmons and Cecil Parker . In 1949, he received the first of three BAFTA Film Award nominations in the Best British Film category for his sports drama Race with Death with Dirk Bogarde in the lead role . In the 1950s he shot the cinema production Adventure in Algiers with Van Heflin , the crime drama March through Hell with Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch in 1956, the adventure film Die Farm der Verfluchten in 1957 and the comedy Der Luxus-Käpt'n with John in 1959 Starring Gregson , Peggy Cummins and Donald Sinden . In 1960, A Circle of Deception was the Bradford Dillman war drama, his last film to be shot in England.

In 1963 he emigrated to Australia. His wife Isabel Kidman, whom he married that same year (the marriage lasted until her death in 1985), was a distant relative of the actress Nicole Kidman .

Lee died on October 15, 2002 at the age of 89 in Sydney, his adopted home.

Jack Lee was the older brother of Laurie Lee (1914-1997), author of the bestselling novel Cider With Rosie .

Awards

  • 1949: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best British Film category for Race to Death
  • 1951: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best British Film for The Wooden Horse
  • 1957: BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best British Film for March Through Hell

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1941: The Pilot Is Safe
  • 1944: By Sea and Land
  • 1947: The Woman in the Hall
  • 1949: Race to Death (Once a Jolly Swagman)
  • 1950: The Wooden Horse
  • 1953: Adventure in Algiers (South of Algiers)
  • 1953: Women go astray (Turn the Key Softly)
  • 1956: March through Hell (A Town Like Alice)
  • 1957: The Farm of the Cursed (Robbery Under Arms)
  • 1959: The Luxus-Käpt'n (The Captain's Table)
  • 1960: A Circle of Deception

Short and documentary film

  • 1942: Ordinary People (short documentary film)
  • 1943: Close Quarters (documentary)
  • 1945: The Eighth Plague (short film)
  • 1947: Children on Trial (documentary)
  • 1964: From the Tropics to the Snow (short film)

literature

  • Jack Lee. In: John Howard Reid: America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies. , Lulu.com, p. 54

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Jack Lee in: The Guardian
  2. ↑ Jack Lee. In: Charles Nevin: Jack: Stories of Britain's Favorite Name. , Random House, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Wilfrid John Raymond (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Stroud , Gloucestershire , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 2002
Place of death Sydney , Australia