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Sydney Box
Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.
He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife director Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.
Sydney and Muriel married in 1935, had a daughter Leonora the following year, and divorced in 1969.
The couple were hired after the war by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio's major successes for several years, and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results. Box made 36 films at Gainsborough, which was merged into the Rank Organization in 1949. It has been argued Box's overexpansion "killed" Gainsborough.
In 1951 Box founded his own production company London Independent Producers with William MacQuitty.
Box was part of a consortium that launched the ITV franchise, Tyne Tees Television in 1959.
In the late 1950s Box signed a deal to make nuermous low budget films for the Rank Organisation. In September 1959 Box announced he was quitting filmmaking due to medical advice.
In December 1959 Rank announced Sydney Box Associates would make a series of films for the company including Love Birds starring Brian Rix, Not in the Book produced by Norman Williams and scripted by Peter Blackmore from Arthur Watkyn’s play, No Concern of Mine from Jeremy Kingston's play, Milk and Honey from Philip King’s play: Watch It, Sailor! also based on a Philip King play, See No Evil an original by Jimmy Sangster, and Time to Kill another original by Leigh Vance. Some of these films would be made by other companies. It has been argued he was allowed to make "far too many movies" for Rank.
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Sydney Box
Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.
He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife director Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.
Sydney and Muriel married in 1935, had a daughter Leonora the following year, and divorced in 1969.
The couple were hired after the war by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio's major successes for several years, and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results. Box made 36 films at Gainsborough, which was merged into the Rank Organization in 1949. It has been argued Box's overexpansion "killed" Gainsborough.
In 1951 Box founded his own production company London Independent Producers with William MacQuitty.
Box was part of a consortium that launched the ITV franchise, Tyne Tees Television in 1959.
In the late 1950s Box signed a deal to make nuermous low budget films for the Rank Organisation. In September 1959 Box announced he was quitting filmmaking due to medical advice.
In December 1959 Rank announced Sydney Box Associates would make a series of films for the company including Love Birds starring Brian Rix, Not in the Book produced by Norman Williams and scripted by Peter Blackmore from Arthur Watkyn’s play, No Concern of Mine from Jeremy Kingston's play, Milk and Honey from Philip King’s play: Watch It, Sailor! also based on a Philip King play, See No Evil an original by Jimmy Sangster, and Time to Kill another original by Leigh Vance. Some of these films would be made by other companies. It has been argued he was allowed to make "far too many movies" for Rank.