Leslie Norman

Leslie Armande Norman (born February 23, 1911 in London , United Kingdom , † February 18, 1993 in Knebworth , ibid) was a British film editor , film director , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Norman joined film at the age of 14 and got to know the industry from the bottom up. After all sorts of temporary and assistant jobs, he began to work as an editor with the dawn of the sound film age and most recently edited high-level entertainment films for the Ealing Studios such as Das große Treiben and Nicholas Nickleby . In the meantime, at the end of 1938, as a partner of Anthony Hankey, he had tried his hand at directing a B-thriller for the first time.

In 1947 Norman switched to production before finally switching to directing in 1954. In just seven years of activity, Norman staged a mystery melodrama ( you were 13 ), a horror story ( XX unknown ), a melodramatic outback road movie ( Precious Burden ) and two war dramas with a European ( Dunkirk ) and East Asian setting that sought objectivity and closeness to reality ( Seven against Hell ) as well as a school drama ( temptation on the school desk ) and a constructed crime story (one hundred hours of fear ).

After 1961, Leslie Norman only found employment as an episode director for series television (mainly crime fiction such as Der Baron , Simon Templar , Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , Department S and Die 2 ); he was prematurely replaced in 1967 by working on the fantasy horror beasts lurking in front of Caracas and replaced by the co-owner of the producing company Hammer Films , Michael Carreras . In 1978 Leslie Norman ended his film career and retired to old age.

cinemamovies

As a film editor

• 1930: The Man From Chicago
• 1933: Red Wagon
• 1934: Yours is my heart (Blossom Time)
• 1934: The Old Curiosity Shop
• 1935: Mimi - The novel of a great love (Mimi)
• 1935: Vienna, Vienna, just you alone (Heart's Desire)
• 1938: Too Dangerous to Live
• 1941: This Was Paris
• 1946: The Overlanders
• 1947: Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
• 1947: Gold digger (Eureka Stockade)

As a producer or production manager

• 1947: Gold digger ( Eureka Stockade )
• 1949 fight for money ( A Run for Your Money )
• 1951: Schwarzes Elfenbein ( Where No Vultures Fly ) (also script participation)
• 1952: Mandy ( Mandy )
• 1952: The Cruel Sea ( The Cruel Sea )
• 1953: West of Zanzibar ( West of Zanzibar )

As a director

• 1938: Too Dangerous to Live (co-director)
• 1954: You Were 13 ( The Night My Number Came Up )
• 1955: XX unknown ( X the Unknown )
• 1957: Precious Burden ( The Shiralee ) (also script participation)
• 1957: Dunkirk ( Dunkirk )
• 1959: The Summer of 17. Doll ( The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll )
• 1960: Seven Against Hell ( The Long and the Short and the Tall )
• 1960: Temptation on the school desk ( Spare the Rod )
• 1961: One Hundred Hours of Fear ( Mix Me a Person )

literature

• Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen, p. 1019, New York 2001

Web links

• Leslie Norman in the Internet Movie Database (English)