Harold French

Harold French
Born (1897-04-23)23 April 1897
London, England, UK
Died 19 October 1997(1997-10-19) (aged 100)
London, England, UK
Occupation Actor
Film director
Years active 1920–1936 (actor)
1937–1963 (director)
Spouse(s) Phyllis (? – 1941)
Awards Locarno International Film Festival
Most Entertaining Film
1949 Adam and Evelyne

Harold French (23 April 1897 in London – 19 October 1997) was an English film director, screenwriter and actor.

As an actor, most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936, not gaining as much attention as later he would as a director.

He worked as a screenwriter on three of the four films produced by Marcel Hellman's and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s production company Criterion Film Productions in the late 1930s, before switching to film direction in 1937, often with Marcel Hellman as producer. From 1940 to 1955, he had several box-office successes as director. This successful period was clouded by the 1941 death of his wife Phyllis in a Luftwaffe bombing raid.[1]

Although he did some TV work after 1955, he appears to have retired from directing and acting after 1963. He died in 1997 at the age of 100.

He was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life in May 1970 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

Selected filmography

Director

Actor

Screenwriter

References

  1. ↑ BritMovie: Harold French Linked 2012-10-14
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