London Film Productions
London Film Productions was the name of several British film production companies . The best known was the production company founded by Alexander Korda in 1932 , also called London Films , which had produced around 100 films by 1956.
history
The first production company operating under the name London Film Productions was established in 1912 and produced more than 100 silent films by 1920 .
In 1932, Alexander Korda re-founded the company under the name and in the following years expanded Denham Film Studios into a production facility. The first film the company produced was the crime film That Night in London by director Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat , Pearl Argyle and Miles Mander in the lead roles. In the period that followed, the company produced internationally renowned films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), What Will Come (1936), Rembrandt (1936), Four Feathers (1939), The Thief of Baghdad (1940) and The Third Man (1949) ).
In addition to Alexander Korda and his younger brother Zoltan Korda , directors such as William Cameron Menzies , Ludwig Berger , Michael Powell and Carol Reed also worked for the company. London Films stars have included actors such as John Clements , Joseph Cotten , Robert Donat, Charles Laughton , Gertrude Lawrence , Raymond Massey , Ralph Richardson , Sabu , Alida Valli and Conrad Veidt .
After a reorganization of the company in the late 1940s, Denham Film Studios was taken over by The Rank Organization and merged with Pinewood Studios . In the years that followed, some of the London Films' films were produced at Shepperton Studios . After Alexander Korda's death, the company was dissolved in 1956.
In 1975 another film production company was finally founded under the name London Film Productions . This produced some films and television series such as Twilight Zone (1985) until 2001 . Most recently, Morgan Mason was the company's chief executive officer .