Raymond Stross

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Raymond Stross (born May 22, 1916 in Leeds , United Kingdom , † July 31, 1988 in Beverly Hills , California , United States ) was a British film producer and cinema operator.

Live and act

Stross went to school in Abingdon-on-Thames before joining film in 1933 and working for Sound City. In the following years he worked in subordinate functions before he went self-employed at the age of 21 and founded Sturt Stross Productions with a partner. In the same year 1937 he directed a film with the low budget medical drama “ The Reverse be My Lot ”. After that, Stross temporarily withdrew from film production and built a cinema chain with the Raymond Stross Theaters.

It was not until the beginning of the 1950s that Stross returned to film production and concentrated on pure entertainment productions such as “The Man Who Didn't Know Himself”, “Shot in the Dark”, “The Traitor's Castle”, “An Alligator Called Daisy”, “ Dawn uprising ”,“ 31 degrees in the shade ”,“ The Fox ” and “ Allow me, these are my coals! ” . Most of these were dramatic material, less often comedies. In the late 1970s, Raymond Stross retired to Beverly Hills with his wife, British actress Anne Heywood .

Filmography

  • 1951: Hell is Sold out
  • 1952: The Tall Headlines
  • 1952: The Man Who Did n't Know Himself ( The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By )
  • 1952: Shot in the Dark ( Rough S hoot)
  • 1953: The Castle of the Traitors ( Star of India )
  • 1955: Hahn im Korb ( As Long as They're Happy )
  • 1955: An alligator named Daisy (An Alligator Named Daisy)
  • 1956: Jumping for Joy
  • 1956: A Touch for the Sun
  • 1957: The Flesh Is Weak
  • 1958: Against Customs and Morals ( A Question of Adultery )
  • 1959: Hill of Secrets ( The Angry Hills )
  • 1959: Uprising at dawn ( A Terrible Beauty )
  • 1960: Branded ( The Mark )
  • 1962: A dead man seeks his killer ( The Brain )
  • 1962: The Very Edge
  • 1963: The Leather Boys (The Leather Boys)
  • 1965: Ninety Degrees in the Shade
  • 1967: The Fox
  • 1968: Allow me, these are my coals! (The Midas Run)
  • 1972: I Want What I Want
  • 1979: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 281

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personal data
SURNAME Stross, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film producer and cinema operator
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , UK
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1988
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , United States