Kinematograph year book (1950)

Who's What in the Industry. 73 GAYE, HOWARD, trailer production department, National Screen Service, Ltd. ; ed. Haileybury College ; joined original D. W. Griffith Fine Arts Company, Hollywood, 1913 ; returned to England 1924, and appointed technical manager, Wardour Films, Ltd. ; production planning manager, Pathe Pictorial, Pathe Educational and Pathe Industrial departments ; author of " Pioneering in Pictures," "So this was Hollywood." Address : 31, Alexandra Court, Empire Way, Wembley Park. Tel. : Wembley 3273. GELL, WILLIAM J., C.B.E., managing director, Monarch Film Corporation, Ltd. ; Monarch Film Prods., Ltd. ; joined the Gaumont Company, 1910 ; joint general manager, 1922 ; joint managing director, 1928 ; sole managing director 1929 ; resigned Gaumont Company 1933 and directorships of British Acoustic Films, Ltd. ; International Acoustic Films, Ltd. ; Gainsborough Pictures (1928), Ltd. ; Film Clearing Houses, Ltd. and Denman Picture Houses, Ltd. managing director of Pathe' Pictures, Ltd.; and on board of British Instructional Films, Ltd., and Pathe Equipment Ltd., 1933-43 ; formed Monarch Film Corporation, 1947, and Monarch Film Prods., Ltd., 1949. Addresses : Office : Morris House, Jermyn Street, London, S.W.i. Tel.: Whitehall 951 1. Private : 8, Eastbury Court, Kensington, W.8. Tel. : Western 7712. GELL, WILLIAM V. A., director, Monarch Film Corporation, Ltd. ; Monarch Film Prods., Ltd. ; Kingsby Co., Ltd. Entered Kodak, Ltd., 1938. Addresses : Office : Morris House, Jermyn Street, London, S.W.i. Tel.: Whitehall 9511. Private: 6, Hall Road, London, N.W.8. Tel. : Cunningham 8397. GENT, COUN, H. S., exhibitor; b. 1892; educated Wesley College and King Edward VII. School, Sheffield; actively associated with Coliseum, Spital Hill, Sheffield, since 1913; elected to the Sheffield City Council November, 1935, and re-elected, 1938 and 1946; chairman, Sheffield and District Branch C.E.A. 1938 42 and 1947. Address: 12, Kenbourne Road. Sheffield, 7 Tel.: Sheffield, 51456. GIBSON, W. S., managing director, Thompson's Enterprises, Ltd. ; joined industry, 1911 ; chairman, Northern Branch C.E.A., 1935 ; 1939 41. Addresses : Office : 4, Palladium Buildings, Eastbourne Road, Middlesbrough. Tel. : Linthorpe 88156. Private : 64, Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough. GILBERTSON, R., general manager, Royalty Gosforth ; member Northern Branch C.E.A. committee ; hrn. treasurer of S.C.M.A. ; organised Managers' Separate Section, Northern Area, and was first chairman ; hon. secretary, Northern branch, Society of Cinematurians. Addresses: Office : Royalty, Gosforth. Tel. : 51065-6. Private : " Braemar," 8, Kensington Avenue, Gosforth Newcastleon-Tyne, 3. Tel. : 51065-6. GILLETT, BERNARD EDWARD, hon. secretary, Birmingham Teachers' Film Society; National Federation of Educational Film Groups ; b. 1904. ed. Birmingham University. Member Birmingham Educational Committee's Film Advisory Committee, 1937-45 ; educational representative, British Film Institute, 1940 42 ; started Birmingham Teachers' Film Society, 1946 ; assisted foundation of National Federation of Educational Film Groups ; member of 13-15 Panel of National Committee for Visual Aids in Education. Addresses : Office : Colmers Farm, Secondary Modern School, Rubery, Birmingham. Tel. : Rubery 272. Private : 143, Ridgacre Road, Quinton, Birmingham, 32. Tel. : Woodgate 257i. GILLIAT, SIDNEY, writer, director, producer; director, Individual Pictures Ltd. ; b. 1908, Edgeley, Cheshire ; entered films as reader ; joined Elstree's scenario department ; later, gag man and assistant to Walter Forde; joined Gaumont-British company as junior writer, 1930; wrote "Jack's the Boy" and " Rome Express " for Gainsborough Pictures ; first original story "Friday the 13th"; formed Individual Pictures, Ltd., with Frank Launder in 1944 ; screenplays include, "The Lady Vanishes," "Night Train to Munich," "The Young Mr. Pitt," "Millions Like Us," "Waterloo Road," "2,000 Women," in collaboration with Launder ; jointly produced with Launder, "The Rake's Progress," "I See a Dark Stranger," " Green for Danger," "Captain Boycott," "London Belongs to Me," "The Blue Lagoon," "State Secret." Addresses : Office : 146, Piccadilly, London, W.i. Tel. : Mayfair 8272. Private : 70, Eaton Place, London, S.W.i. GINEVER, AVELING : producer ; formerly journalist and advertising consultant, adviser on educational film production to B.T.P. ; founded own company, Gee Films, Ltd., 1931. Produced educational, religious and documentary films. During war produced Instructional Films for Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry. Currently producing staff training and promotional subjects for Government departments and commercial organisations. Address : 2, New Zealand Avenue, Walton-on-Thames. Tel. : Walton-on-Thames 2284-5. GLEN, SAMUEL JOSEPH, exhibitor. Entered industry, 1909. Member, Sussex branch C.E.A. committee. Address : 74, Seaside Road, Eastbourne. Tel. : 11 83. GODFREY, R. H.f joint managing director, Cheshire County Cinemas, Ltd. ; vicechairman N. Western Branch C.E.A. 1947-8, delegate to General Council ; b. 1904, Glasgow. Addresses : Office : Empress, Runcorn, Cheshire. Tel. : 2962. Private : The Ridge, Manley Road, Frodsham, Cheshire. Tel. : 2269. GOLDBERG, JACK, managing director, H. and G. Enterprises (London) Ltd. ; Albert Graham Prods., Ltd. b. 1893 ; ed. Grimsby College, Lines. Addresses : Office : Broadmead House, 21, Panton Street, London, S.W.i. Tel.: Whitehall 1992. Private: 19, Bryan Avenue, Willesden, N.W.10. Tel. : Willesden 0515. GOLDRICK, MILES ALEXANDER, chairman and managing director, Western Electric Co., Ltd. b. 1903, ed. University of California. Entered technical side industry, 1927 ; Comdr. U.S. Navy, 1941-5 ; appointed present post December, 1945. Address: Office : Liberty House, Regent Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Regent 1001. GOLDSBROUGH, H., F.A.C.C.A., secretary, Bradford and District branch, C.E.A. ; b. 1897, Bradford. Addresses : Office : 23, Piccadilly, Bradford. Tel. : Bradford 24097.