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
Also known As
Basil Charles Wright
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...
Acting
Production
1940
as Producer
1953
as Producer
1934
as Director
1945
as Producer
1932
as Director
1938
as Director
1931
as Additional Photography
1939
as Writer
1937
as Director
1934
as Editor
1934
as Director of Photography
1946
as Producer
1933
as Director
1941
as Producer
1936
as Editor
1936
as Director
1932
as Cinematography
1935
as Director of Photography
1958
as Director
1958
as Producer
1938
as Producer
1951
as Director
1942
as Producer
1942
as Producer
1945
as Producer
1953
as Director
1936
as Producer
1930
as Editor
1940
as Associate Producer
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