Kinematograph year book (1950)

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Who's What in the Industry. 75 GREENE, J. LESLIE, chairman Hope Hall Cinema, Liverpool ; Ritz Rink and Walton Vale, P.H. ; managing director, Metropole, Bootle ; chairman Enterprise (Liverpool), Ltd. ; b. Liverpool ; formerly journalist ; managing director Liverpool City Press, Ltd. ; first president Liverpool Kinema Exchange, 1920. Addresses : 7, Elliott Street, Liverpool, W. Tel. : Royal 7538. 18, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2. Tel. : Temple Bar 7421. 128, Nightingale Lane, London, S.W.12. Tel.: Battersea 2647. GREENWOOD, W, J., general manager, Leeds Entertainments, Ltd. ; member Leeds Branch C.E.A. Committee ; b. 1886, Sunderland, entered entertainment business 1901. Addresses : Office : Western Talkie Theatre, Leeds, Tel. : 42078 ; Private : 8, Berkeley View, Leeds, 8. GREY, RICHARD MICHEL, director of Condor Film Corp., b. 1915 ; ed. Eton. Entered industry, 1936 ; script writer and assistant director, Joe Rock Studios and B.I. P. ; founder Condor, 1945. Films include " Birth of a Film," "Eyes that Kill," "The Glass Mountain," " A Gunman Has Escaped," " Furlough from Heaven." Address: Office: 3-4, Berners Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Grosvenor 2107. Private : 27, Aldford House, Park Lane, London, W.i. GRIBBLE, THOMAS WILLIAM, manager. Pavilion, Cleveleys ; member West Lanes, branch C.E.A. committee, b. 1899. ed. South Staffordshire College. Entered management 1927. Addresses: Office: Pavilion, Cleveleys, Blackpool. Tel. : Cleveleys 2122. Private : Beulah Cot, 30, Rough Le Road, Cleveleys, Blackpool. GRIERSON, JOHN, controller of films, C.O.I.; b. Deanstown, N.B., 1898 ; ed. Glasgow University. Rockefeller Research Fellow in Social Science 1924-27, and during that time worked at American Universities ; surveyed educational and propaganda film methods in different countries for the British Government ; founded E.M.B. Film Unit and Empire Library, 1930 ; G.P.O. Film Unit 1933 ; chairman, Film Centre, Ltd., 1936 ; adviser to Imperial Relations Trust and to Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Government, 1937-39 ; Government film commissioner, Canada, 1939-45 ; general manager, Wartime Information Board, Canada, 1943 ; foreign adviser to Commission on the Freedom of the Press, Chicago University, 1943-46 ; director of Mass Media, U.N.E.S.C.O., 1947. Address : 83, Baker Street, W.i. Tel. : Welbeck 4420. GRIFFITHS, D. E., O.B.E., b. 1S95 ; member Royal Naval Film Corporation ; deputy chairman, Royal Air Force Cinema Corporation ; president K.R.S. 1936-39 and 1947-48. Addresses : 30, Old Compton Street, London, W.i. Tel.: Gerrard 3301-2. Private: Argyll, 54, Gunnersbury Avenue, Ealing, W.5. Tel. : Acorn 3996. GRIGGS, JACK, director of publicity and advertising, Assoc. British-Pathe. b. 1902. ed. Southend Secondary School. Entered Industry, Ideal Films, 1923; press representative, First National Pathe ; assistant publicity manager Radio Pictures ; publicity manager, Grand National Pictures ; press officer, Films Division, M. of I., 1941-45 ; vice-president, Publicity Section, A.C.T., 1946-47 ; chairman F.I.P.C. 1947-48. Addresses: Office : Film House, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 4314. Private : Fortholme, Molember Road, East Molesey. Tel : Emberbrook 3230. GROVE, Brig. I. R., O.B.E., J. P., M.Inst.T., managing director, F.T.S. (Great Britain), Ltd. ; London and Provincial Film Transport Co., Ltd. ; F.T.S. Printers (Cardiff), Ltd. ; F.T.S. (Exports), Ltd. ; Highland Development Trust, Ltd. ; Lothians Star Theatres, Ltd.; Star Theatre (Lochore), Ltd. ; Primrose Pictures, Ltd. ; Harry Reynolds Theatres, Ltd. ; director, Glasgow and West of Scotland Cinemas, Ltd. ; Grove Picture Houses (Glasgow), Ltd. ; Astoria Cinemas (Glasgow), Ltd. ; Arbroath Picture House Co., Ltd. ; president of F.T.S., Ltd., B.C. Canada ; entered trade 19 11 ; associated with Fleet Cinema Commission, 1917-19 ; first commandant, Army Kinema Services, 1941 ; deputy director, War Office, 1943-44 ; first director, Interservices Kinematography, India, 1944-46 ; now Staff Officer (Kine) India Office and Hon. Technical Adviser, Army Kinema Corps ; J. P. for County of West Lothian since 1930 ; Scottish representative on R.H. Central Wages Boards and Road and Rail Central Conference. Address: Inchgarvie House, South Queensferry, West Lothian. GROVES, REG., writer-producer. b. 1908 ; editor "World Film News," 1936-37; script writer, Strand Film Co., Ltd., 1938-43 ; Verity Films, 1943-47; Labour Parliamentary Candidate, Eastbourne; film critic "New Leader" 1939-43-44-45. Address: 7, Heathfield Road, London, S.W.18. GUMMERSALL, COUN. F. L., chairman, Beeston P.H. (Leeds), Ltd. ; Abbey Entertainments, Ltd. ; b. 1882, Bradford, Yorks ; hon. treasurer, Leeds Branch, C.E.A. ; Coun. City of Leeds, since 1930 ; member of the River Ouse (Yorks) Catchment Board since 1945. Addresses : Office : 20, Bardon Chambers, Infirmary Street, Leeds, 1. Tel. : 25196. Private: 42, Osborne Road, Morecambe, Lancashire. GUNBY, STANLEY JOHN, A.S.A.A., secretary, Leicestershire branch, C.E.A. b. 1914. ed. South Wigston Intermediate School. Addresses : Office : National Chambers, 4, Horsef air Street, Leicester. Tel. : Leicester 5134. Private : 4, Lime Tree Avenue, Birstall, Leics. Tel. : Leicester 84884. HAINES, RONALD, B.Sc, F.I.M.T., producer, director and scenarist ; director of British Foundation Pictures, Ltd. ; British Foundation Distributors ; British Documentary Films, Ltd. ; British Tabso, Ltd. ; Films of All Nations. Address: 171, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.i ; Tel. : Temple Bar 8577. HALAS, JOHN, producer-director, Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films, Ltd. b. 1912. Entered industry, George Pal, 1927 ; director, British Animated Films, British Colour Cartoon Films ; produced and directed " Music Man," " The Brave Little Tin Soldier," "Filling the Gap," " A.B.U." series for M.o.I., "Train Trouble," "Handling Ships," "Fly About the House," "Charley" colour cartoon series for Co. I. Addresses" : Office : 10a, Soho Square, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 76S1. Private : Flat 4, 8, East Heath Road, Hampstead, N.W.3. Tel. : Hampstead 8674.