Vivian A. Cox

Vivian A. Cox (born July 21, 1915 in Bangalore , British India , † April 27, 2009 in Ewhurst , County Surrey, United Kingdom ) was a British World War II officer, production manager , film producer , screenwriter and school teacher .

Live and act

Vivian Cox was born in the then British colonial empire of India, but returned home early to his parents' English homeland and gradually attended the Cranleigh School and Jesus College in Cambridge . Drafted shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Cox served in various military staff positions in the first half of the 1940s, including as a naval lieutenant in the command center of the British Admiralty. He later also introduced the principle of a movable card room for Prime Minister Winston Churchill's briefings . In 1942, Cox was promoted to flag lieutenant of Vice Admiral Bruce Fraser .

Vivian Cox returned to civilian life shortly after the end of the war and entered the film business in 1946. His first position was as assistant to film producer Sydney Box . From 1949 Cox was involved in the production of films as a production manager, and since 1952 he has also been responsible as a producer. In this position, Cox produced both stiff and respectably serious materials like The Prisoner as well as very light weight films, including the German-British student romance With the head through the wall and the witty escape comedy Die Grüne Minna . Vivian A. Cox has been with the Rank Organization since 1958.

1967 Cox returned cinematically to his roots in India and ended his cinematic activity with The Battle , a story from the time of British colonial rule on the subcontinent. A few years later, Cox went back to his old school in Cambridge, the Cranleigh School, where he taught as a teacher.

Filmography

As a film producer or production manager, unless otherwise stated

• 1949: The Astonished Heart
• 1950: Paris at midnight (So ​​Long at the Fair)
• 1950: On the wrong track (The Clowded Yellow)
• 1952: Tread Softly
• 1954: The Strange Ways of Father Brown (Father Brown)
• 1955: The Prisoner (The Prisoner)
• 1956: perpetrator unknown (Lost)
• 1956: In the claws of the gangsters (House of Secrets)
• 1958: With your head through the wall (Bachelor of Hearts)
• 1959: Deadly Record (also screenplay)
• 1959: Die Grüne Minna (Two-Way-Stretch) (also co-script)
• 1960: It's crazy - our torpedo is coming back (Watch Your Stern) (only co-script)
• 1962: We Joined the Navy
• 1963: West Eleven
• 1967: The battle (The Long Duel)

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 57

Web links

• Vivian A. Cox in the Internet Movie Database (English)