Kinematograph Year Book 1954 (1954)

Who's What in the Industry. 73 British Film Academy. Addresses : Office ; Magnet House, Kingsway, W.C.2. Tel. : Temple Bar 8000. Private : Tehidy, East Horsley, Surrey. Tel. : East Horsley 459. HASSE, CHARLES, BA, editor and documentarv director ; b. 1904, Algiers. Editor, ABPC Br. National ; director, Crown Film Unit, 1940-42 ; editor, Ealing Studios, 1942-46 ; British National, and ABPC : 1947 ; Pilgrim Pictures, 1948-49 ; Triangle Films, 1950 ; Nettlefold Studios, 1950-51 ; Angel Productions, 1952-53 ; Warner Bros., 1953. Addresses : Office : ABPC, Elstree Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts. Tel. : Elstree 1600. Private: n, Hammersmith Terrace, W.6. Tel. : Riverside 1566. HAVELOCK-ALLAN, ANTHONY, chairman, Constellation Films, Ltd.; b. 1905. Producer, Paramount Pictures, British and Dominion Film Corpn., 1934-37 ; producer, Pinebrook, 1937-39; directed Leslie Howard in " From the Four Corners," for MOI ; produced " Unpublished Story," Two Cities ; associate producer with Noel Coward, " In Which We Serve," " This Happy Breed"; formed Cineguild, 1943 ; in charge production "Brief Encounter"; executive producer, "Great Expectations"; producer, "Take My Life"; producer, "Blanche Fury"; formed Constellation Films, 1948 ; producer " The Small Voice " ; formed Valiant Films, Ltd., 1949 ; producer " The Interrupted Journey," " Tbe Eagle and the Lamb"; 1951, " Never Take No for an Answer " ; 1952, "Meet Me Tonight" (British Film Makers); member National Film Production Council; member of British Film Academy Council. Address : Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Bucks. Tel. : Iver 700. HAYNES, STANLEY, film producer; b. 1906; ed. Oxford. Entered industry as producer with Henry Edwards and Chrissie White. Films include: "Citadel," "Goodbye Mr. Chips," " The Way Ahead," " Oliver Twist," "The Passionate Friends," "The Trial of Madeline Smith." Address : 14, Addison Crescent, W.14. HELLMAN, MARCEL, managing director, Excelsior Film Prods., Ltd. ; Marcel Hellman Productions, Ltd.; b. 1898 ; ed. Bucharest and Berlin ; entered industry 1924, as managing director and producer, Nero F'ilm A.G., Berlin ; producer for Greenbaum Film Co., Berlin, and Pathe-Cinema, Paris, 1929 ; founded Matador Film Co., Berlin, 1930 ; in association with Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., founded Criterion Film Prods., 1935 ; founded Excelsior Film Prods., 1937. Recent films, "This was a Woman," " Happy Go Lovely." Addresses : 4 Tilney Street, Park Lane, W.i. Tel. : Grosvenor 2446-7. Private : " Whitewood ", Windsor Road, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. Tel. : Fulmer (Bucks) 9. HENRY, BEN, director, Eros Films; OBE, b. 1902 ; joined Moss Empires at 14 ; London Branch Manager, Wardour F'ilms, Ltd., 1926 ; general manager, ABFD, 1932 ; elected director, 1938 ; film department ENSA, 1939; left ABFD, 1942; associate producer George Formby Productions and producer for Vera Lynn films ; 1943 representative in Great Britain of Universal International. Addresses: Office: in, Wardour Street, W.i. Private: 17, Fursecroft, George Street, W.i. HESSION, BRIAN, The Rev., MA (Cantab.) chairman of Knight Film Club, 1933 ; Dawn Trust Ltd., 1937 ; Bible Films Ltd., 1945. Member of Archbishop's Advisory Film Committee, 1938. Associated with Cathedral Films Inc., U.S.A. Writer, director and producer. Vicar Holy Trinity, Aylesbury from 1937 to 1950 ; member of British Churches Film Council, 1950. Addresses : Dawn Trust Studio, Aylesbury, Bucks. Tel. 1234/5. Private: Goathorn Cottage, Poole Harbour, Dorset. Tel. : Studland 286. HEYER, JOHN, producer and director, b. 1916, Devonport, Australia ; ed. Scotch College, Melbourne. In charge of Shell Film Unit, Australia. Member of New South Wales Film Council ; president of Federation of Film Societies and Film Users' Association ; vice-president Scientific F'ilm Society. Since 1938 has written and directed several Australian films, and in 1945 collaborated on the script of " The Overlanders " and was director of " The Overlanders " second unit. During the war was producer for Allied Works Council and Film adviser to the Prime Minister's Propaganda Committee and on the Films Committee of the Services Education Council. From 1945 to 1948 producer for the Australian National Film Board. Address : 130, Beecroft Road, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia. HEYWOOD, JOHN LESLIE, Brigadier; assistant secretary, Kinematograph Renters' Society ; director, Children's Film Foundation ; b. June 1907 ; ed. Wellington College and Sandhurst. Served as regular officer from 1926-49. Addresses : Office : KRS, 30, Old Compton Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 4383. Private : Preston House, Little Bookham, Surrey. Tel. : Bookham 14. HIBBERT-JONES, ALAN, publicity director Eros Films ; b. London. After holding executive positions in publicity, joined films after the war. Publicity director to GFD, 1945 ; Publicity division JARO, 1947. Present post 1949. Address : in, Wardour St., London, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 3202. HILL, ANTHONY HENRY WAITE, MBE, entertainment organiser, National Playing Fields Association ; b. May, 1915 ; ed. London University. Pre-war, actor, stage manager and stage director. Major, RE, during the war; from 1945/48 in charge of combined Services Entertainment in Far East. Addresses: Office: 71, Eccleston Square, S.W.i. Tel. : Victoria 9274. Private : Flat 418, The White House, Regent's Park, N. W.i. Tel. : Euston 1200. HILL, F. GORDON, director and secretary, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Ltd. ; Colum• bia (British) Productions, Ltd. and Wigmore Films, Ltd. ; secretary, Columbia Pictures (Export), Ltd. ; Columbia Music Publishing Co., Ltd. ; Cecil Film Ltd. ; b. 1909, Shanghai ; joined Fox Film Co., 1929 ; later with British Movietone News ; Columbia 1933. Addresses : Office: 139, Wardour Street, W.i. Tel.: Gerrard 4321. Private: "High Trees," 26, Salmon Street, Kingsbury, London, N.W.9. Tel. : Colindale 3144. HILL, FRANK, MVO, FCIS ; secretary of Kinematograph Renters' Society since 1919; hon. treas. CTBF" ; director British C»