Kinematograph year book (1950)

Who's What in the Industry. 63 CARSTAIRS, JOHN PADDY, film director, scenarist-novelist ; started as a camera assistant, 1927 ; has been editor, assistant director, scenarist, M-G-M writing staff, Culver City, 1936 ; with Al Christie, M-G-M, Paramount, Columbia in Hollywood ; directed "Saint in London" for R.K.G., "Spare a Copper" for Ealing; latest films "Dancing with Crime " (Paramount), " Sleeping Car to Trieste," "Fools Rush In," " Chiltern Hundreds" for J.A.R.O. CARSTAIRS, NORMAN MORAY, C.B.E., Officer Legion of Merit, U.S.A. General manager Army KinemaCorp. b. 1895, ed. Haileybury, graduate Army Staff College, Camberley. Indian Army, retired, rank Brigadier ; Director of Army Kinematography, 1943-46 ; general manager Army Kinema Corp. since 1946. Addresses : Office, 36, Dover Street, London, W.i. Tel.: Regent 8070. Private : Chase House, Kingswood, Surrey. Tel. , Mogador 2405. CARTER, CHARLES EDWARD, managing director, H. & S. Films, Ltd. ; b. 191 3 ; entered industry in 1931. Address : Paxton House, 36-38, Dean Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 5 117. CARTER, DONALD F., F.R.G.S., director G.-B. Instructional, Ltd., b. 1900 ; ed. France, Unversity of London ; joined British Instructional Films, 1928 ; assistant director features and documentaries; director shorts, technical and industrial films ; joined G.-B. Instructional, 1934 ; appointed producer all War Office films made by G.-B. I., 1942 ; general production manager,. 1943 ; general manager, 1944 ; director, 1945. Addresses : Office : Imperial Studios, Elstree Way, Boreham Wood, Herts. Tel. : Elstree 246r. Private : 19, High Oaks Road, Welwyn Garden City. Tel. : Welwyn Garden 377 CASA MAURY, PETER, MARQUIS de, director, Pictor Films ; United Curzon Corp., Ltd. b. 1896 ; ed. Beaumont College, Old Windsor ; built Curzon Cinema, Mayfair, 1934 ; Paris Cinema, 1939 ; Founded United Curzon Cinema Ltd. ; United Curzon Corp., Ltct. ; JARO, 1944-46 ; formed Pictor Films, 1946. Addresses : Office : Africa House, Kingsway, W.C.2. Tel. : Holborn 4444. Private : 20, Albert Hall Mansions, S.W.7. Tel. : Kensington 2361. CATLIN, WILLIAM HERBERT, M.A., LL.B., chairman, Catlin's Scarborough Entertainments, Ltd. ; Catlin's Whitby Empire, Ltd. ; Catlin's Whitby Coliseum, Ltd. ; Catlin's (Uttoxeter) Ltd. b. 1901 ; ed. Sedbergh and Cambridge. Son of Will Catlin, pioneer of seaside concert parties and exhibitor in 1910. Succeeded father as chairman of Catlin's Scarborough Entertainments in 1933. Addresses : Office : 36, Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex. Tel. : Hounslow 2818. Private : Burn Hay, Virginia Water, Surrey. Tel. ' Wentworth 3104. CATTERMOUL, CECIL L. 0., director, Cattermoul, Ltd. ; b. 1890 ; joined industry I9r2 ; specialist in overseas markets, authority on film export ; London buyer for Scandinavian film trust for some years, then formed own company ; British representative of foreign distributors and theatre owners, including Svensk Filmindustri ; the University of Reykjavik, Iceland ; commercial adviser to certain British Government Departments, and Foreign Governments. Contractor to majority of British shipping companies ; distributor in U.K. of Swedish and continental films. Address : Colquhoun House, Broadwick Street, W.i. Tel.: Gerrard 3592. CAVALCANTI, A. de A., ■ film director and producer, b. 1897, Rio de Janeiro ; entered films as art director ; director in the French Avant-Garde group ; came to England 1934 and worked in the documentary school ; Ealing, 1940-47; films include "North Sea," " Men of the Lightship," " The Foreman Went to France," "Went the Day Well," " Half -Way House," "Champagne Charlie," " Dead of Night," " The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebv " "They Made Me A Fugitive," "The First Gentleman," "For Them that Trespass." Addresses : Agent : Linnit and Dunfee, 28, Brook Street, W.i. • Private: 13, Shooter's Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3. Tel. : .Greenwich 2448. CAYLEY, CUTHBERT JOHN, B.A., F.R.G.S., A.R.P.S., managing director C. J. Cayley Prods., Ltd. b. 1907 ; ed. Eton ; Cambridge. Member council, British Short Film Makers Society, Ltd. Addresses : Office : 26-27, D'Arblay Street, London, W.i. Private : Correen Castle, Ballinsloe, Co. Galway, Ireland. CHAMBERLAIN, F. G. W., proprietor, Gaiety, Bristol ; chairman, Bristol and West of England Branch C.E.A. ; delegate to General Council ; b. 1893, Southampton ; entered trade, 1917 ; acquired Knowle P.H., 1918 ; built Gaiety, 1932, and Broadway, 1937 ; vicechairman, Bristol Branch, 1921-36 ; chairman since 1936. Address : Gaiety, Wells Road, Bristol, 4. Tel. : 76224. CHAMBERS, FRANCIS VAUGHAN, exhibitor; secretary and director of various cinema companies, b. 1908. Entered business 1932 ; lessee of Roxy, Hanley, in partnership Edward Paxon, 1935 ; North Staffs. C.E.A. delegate since 1940 ; chairman, 1943. Addresses : Office : Roxy, Hanley. Tel. : Stoke-on-Trent 5497. Private: " Ladyhill," Ash Bank, Stoke-on-Trent. Tel. : Ash Bank 386. CHAMPION, CHARLES H., M.I.Mech.E. M.A.S.M.E., M.A.I.E.E., A.M.I.E.E. F.R.S.A. F.R.P.S., M.I.E.S., F.B.K.S.; chairman, Charles H. Champion and Co., Ltd. ; Ship Carbon Co. of Gt. Britain, Ltd. Technical manager, U.S. branch of Union Electric Co., 1912 ; founded Charles H. Champion and Co., Ltd., 1921. Addresses : Office : National House, 60-66, Wardour Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 9376. Private : One Faircares, Roehampton Lane, S.W.15. Tel.: Prospect 6180 CHANCELLOR, DAVID, journalist and publicist, b. 1913 ; ed. Nautical College, Pangbourne. Editor, Screen Pictorial, 1937-39 ; executive editor, London Opinion, 1939-40 ; assistant editor, Strand Magazine, April 1946 ; joined J.A.R.O. Publicity Division, 1946. Address : Office: J.A.R.O., 38, South Street, London,. W.i. Tel. : May 7454. CHILTON, THOMAS, M.B.K.S. ; joint managing director, J. Frank Brockliss, Ltd. ; ed. Durham University ; entered trade with T. Thompson Film Hire Service ; subsequently supervising