Basil Wright
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday12 June 1907
Died14 October 1987 (age 80)
Place of birthFrieth, Buckinghamshire, England
Known credits32
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 Fe…
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
1974 · Self
Grierson
1973 · Self
The Immortal Land
1958 · Director
The Immortal Land
1958 · Producer
One Wish Too Many
1956 · Producer
The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
1953 · Producer
World Without End
1953 · Director
Waters of Time
1951 · Director
It Might Be You
1946 · Producer
A Defeated People
1946 · Producer
A Diary for Timothy
1945 · Producer
The Channel Islands 1940-1945
1945 · Producer
Neuro Psychiatry 1943
1943 · Producer
London Scrapbook
1942 · Producer
This Is Colour
1942 · Producer
The Green Girdle
1941 · Producer
London Can Take It!
1940 · Associate Producer
Men of Africa
1940 · Producer
The Rape of Czechoslovakia
1939 · Writer
The Londoners
1939 · Associate Producer
Night Mail
1938 · Director
Night Mail
1938 · Editor
The Face of Scotland
1938 · Director
Advance Democracy!
1938 · Producer
Children at School
1937 · Director
Modern Orphans of the Storm: The Story of the Refugee Basque Children
1937 · Director
Coal Face
1935 · Director of Photography
The Song of Ceylon
1934 · Director
The Song of Ceylon
1934 · Director of Photography
The Song of Ceylon
1934 · Editor
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934 · Vicar (uncredited)
The Country Comes to Town
1933 · Director
The Country Comes to Town
1933 · Director of Photography
O'er Hill and Dale
1932 · Director
O'er Hill and Dale
1932 · Cinematography
Industrial Britain
1931 · Additional Photography
Conquest
1930 · Editor
Every Day
1929
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