Basil Wright

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-06-12 (80 years old)

Deathday

1987-10-14

Place of Birth

Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England

Basil Wright

Biography

Basil Wright - was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. During World War II, Wright worked only as a producer, first at John Grierson's Film Centre before joining The Crown Film Unit between 1945 and 1946 as producer-in-charge. Among the best known films he produced for Crown are Humphrey Jennings' A Diary for Timothy (1946) and A Defeated People (1946) and Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) featuring Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.[1] Returning to direction in the early 1950s, his films included Waters of Time (1951) made for the Festival of Britain, World Without End (1953) direct...

Production

1940

Men of Africa

as Producer

1934

1945

1932

1938

1931

Industrial Britain

as Additional Photography

1937

1934

1934

The Song of Ceylon

as Director of Photography

1946

It Might Be You

as Producer

1941

The Green Girdle

as Producer

1936

Night Mail

as Editor

1936

Night Mail

as Director

1932

O'er Hill and Dale

as Cinematography

1935

Coal Face

as Director of Photography

1958

1958

1938

1951

Waters of Time

as Director

1942

This Is Colour

as Producer

1942

London Scrapbook

as Producer

1953

1936

Rainbow Dance

as Producer

1930

Conquest

as Editor

1940

London Can Take It!

as Associate Producer

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