Kinematograph year book (1950)

56 The Kinematograph Year Book. ATT REE, D. W., director and general manager, Attree and Barr, Ltd., proprietors Coliseum, Gorleston ; member of Eastern Counties Branch C.E.A. committee ; b. 1910, Kings Lynn. Entered trade under his father, the late Douglas M. Attree, 1925. Became director of Attree and Barr, Ltd., formed by his father in 1931. Addresses : Office : Coliseum, Gorleston-on-Sea. Tel. : Gorleston 73. Private : 16, Russell Avenue, Gorlestonon-Sea. BAIM, HAROLD, managing director, Federated Film Corp., Ltd.; New Tone Film Prods.; Factual Entertainment, Ltd. ; Advance Publicity, Ltd. ; b. 19 14 , entered Leeds branch M-G-M, 1929 ; First National, 1932 ; British Screen Service, 1934. Formed Renown Pictures Corp., Ltd., 1938. BAINES, JOHN, screenwriter ; b. 1909, London > ed. Malvern College ; under contract M-G-M; Culver City, 1937-8 ; Jeff Musso, France, 1939-40 J M.O.I., 1941-3 ; Ealing Studios, J943-5 ; Independent Producers, 1946-7 ; screenplay credits, " Dead of Night," " Colonel Bogey," "The Blue Lagoon," "Diplomatic Passport." Address: Picket Wood, Merstham, Surrey. Tel. : Merstham 388. BAKANOWSKI, Z. de L., P.M.C., S R., managing director, Athene Film Prod., Ltd. ; S. T. A. W., Ltd. ; director, Frederick J. Minns and Co., Ltd. ; general manager. Swift Rifle Co., Ltd. ; chairman and managing director, Bakanowski Corp., Ltd. ; b. 1899. Bachelor of Law. Entered trade as managing director and proprietor of Polonia Films, Madrid, and managing director and coproprietor Varsovia Films, Valencia. Represented Association of Polish Film Producers in Spain for eight years. Formed B.M.D., Ltd., London, to exchange films between England and Continent. Addresses: Office: 29, Palace Gate, Kensington, W.8. Tel. : Western 6051-4. Private : Flat 10, 29 Palace Gate, London, W.8. Tel. : Western 6051-4. BAKER, FRANCIS WILLIAM, chairman, Butcher's Film Service, Ltd. ; b. November 25, 1877, Hollesley, Suffolk. Entered the Industry, 1897, joining British Muto. and Biograph Syndicate. Ex-president and present treasurer, K.R.S.'; ex-treasurer, I.A.K.M. Member of Cinematograph Films Council, 1929-1944. Member Council C. T. B. F. Member Consultative committee, B.B. F.C. Governor, British Film Institute. President, Cinema Veterans (1903), 1941-3. Founder, Anima Lodge 3634. Addresses : Office : 175, Wardour Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 7282. Private : Hollesley, Rosehill, Sutton, Surrey. Tel. : Fairlands 9577. BAKER, JOHN RODERICK., director, Stratfordon-Avon P.H., Co., Ltd., and associated companies ; John Argyle Productions, Ltd. ; b. 1907 ; ed. Shrewsbury. Solicitor and chairman, Birmingham and Midlands Branch C. E.A. Addresses : Office : 131, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. Tel. : Central 2243. Private : Wildmoor, Stratford-on-Avon. Tel. : 2063. BAKER, LESLIE F., A.C.A., director and secretary, Ealing Studios, Ltd. ; Associated British Film Distributors, Ltd. ; Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd. ; b. 1903, London. Entered industry with Gainsborough Pictures, 1924; partner, Baker, Todman and Co., 1930-3; assistant general manager, production, Gains borough and Gaumont-British Picture Corp., J933-5 ; director, secretary and general manager production, New World Pictures, Ltd., 1936-7 ; director, secretary, general production manager and associate producer, Twentieth Century Productions, Ltd., 1938-43; joined Ealing Studios, Ltd. associated companies as secretary, 1943 ; elected to board, 1946. Address : Ealing Studios.. Ltd., Ealing Green, London, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. BAKER, LESLIE STUART, M.B.K.S., distribution manager, Army Kinema Corporation, b. 1903. Entered trade 1917 ; formerly technical manager, Columbia Pictures ; captain with A.K.S. until 1945. Addresses : Office : Kinema House, North Circular Road, London, N.W.10. Tel. : Elgar : 544* • Private : 61, Monkleigh Road, Morden, Surrey. Tel. : Liberty 5019. BAKER, REGINALD P., F.C.A., managing director, Ealing Studios, Ltd. ; Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd. ; Associated British Film Distributors, Ltd. ; past president of of K.R.S. ; Renters' representative on Cinematograph Films Council ; was founder director with Michael Balcon of Gainsborough Pictures ; senior partner of Baker, Todman & Co., chartered accountants. Address : Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. BAKER, ROY, film director; b. 1916 ; ed. Lycee Corneille, Rouen ; City of London School. Entered industry, Gainsborough production department, 1934 ; directed "October Man"; "The Weaker Sex"; " Paper Orchid," " Morning Departure." Address : c /o Linnit and Dunfee. BAKER, T. THORNE, F.Inst.P., A.M.I.E.E., F. R.P.S., consulting chemist ; formerly associated with Spicers, Ltd., in manufacture of film base and production of Dufaycolor ; director of research and technical director of Dufaycolor, Inc., New York, 1934-39. Consultant in all branches of photography. Address : 231, Baker Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Welbeck 6183. BALCON, SIR MICHAEL, director of Ealing Studios, Ltd., and head of production; b. 1896, Birmingham; entered trade as director of Victory M.P. Co., Midland renting concern ; subsequently joined Gainsborough Pictures and produced early British successes at Islington ; appointed director of productions of new G. B. studios, Shepherds Bush ; joined M-G-M British Studios as chief producer, 1937 ; started independent production, 1938 ; elected director of Ealing Studios ; recent pictures : " Convoy," " The Foreman Went to France," "Next of Kin," "Nine Men," "San Demetrio, London," " Dead of Night," " The Captive Heart," "The Overlanders," "Hue and Cry,"; "It always Rains on Sunday." "Scott of the Antarctic," "Passport to Pimlico," "Whisky Galore," " Kind Hearts and Coronets," "A Run for Your Money," " The Blue Lamp." Address: Ealing Studios Ltd., Ealing Green, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. BAMBERGER, E A., b. 1886, Mainz, Germany ; came to England, 1937 ; became British citixen in 1947 ; was a banker, connected with film-finance on Continent, also with Film Distribution in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy ; managing director, v