Julian Wintle

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Julian Wintle (born October 17, 1913 in Liverpool , Lancashire as Francis Julian Wintle ; † November 8, 1980 in Brighton , East Sussex ) was a British film producer who made over 40 film and television productions between 1946 and 1973, including Movies such as Ein Kind was Zeuge , Ein Made durch or O Darling - what traffic , but also episodes of the internationally popular television series about the agent couple John Steed and Emma Peel in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melon .

life and work

Julian Wintle, born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1913, founded the production company Independent Artists Ltd. together with screenwriter and film director Jeffrey Dell in 1947 .

In his role as producer, numerous crime films, dramas, comedies, adventure or horror films such as The Man in Black by director Jeffrey Dell , Charles Crichton's A Child Was Witness , End Station Harem by Ken Annakin , were made from the 1950s to the 1970s two dramas A Woman Comes On Board and One Came Through by Roy Ward Baker , Guy Greens In The Claws Of Gangsters , The White Trap , Dirty Money and Chase Through Fire by director Sidney Hayers , Peter Graham Scott's comedy Oh, You Dear Father or In the clutches of Madame Sin by David Greene .

As an executive producer, he has also participated in productions with a significantly higher budget such as Joseph Losey's The Deadly Trap , J. Lee Thompson's Tiger Bay , Waltz of the Toreros by John Guillermin , the award-winning drama Lockender Lorbeer by Lindsay Anderson and an James Hills No mercy for the fox .

As a TV and film producer, Julian Wintle has brought many British films and TV series on the way, including the complete fourth season from 1965 to 1966 with all 26 episodes of the internationally known and successful agent series Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone . Mainly those directors worked there with whom Wintle had already worked trustingly over the years: Charles Crichton , Roy Ward Baker , Sidney Hayers , Peter Graham Scott or James Hill .

From 1959 to 1963 Wintle was a member of the Bryanston Consortium.

His son is the writer Justin Wintle.

Wintle died on November 8, 1980 at the age of 67 in the English health resort and seaside resort of Brighton .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julian Wintle in: The encyclopedia of British film , by Brian McFarlane, British Film Institute, Methuen, 2005, p. 771
  2. ^ Julian Wintle in: British Film and Television Yearbook, Volume 4 , British and American Film Press, 1952, p. 125