Lewis gilbert film director autobiography meaning

Lewis Gilbert's career as a writer, producer and director of varied films spans the entire post-war history of British cinema, a contribution acknowledged by the award of a BFI Fellowship in During the last decades of the studio system, Gilbert was particularly associated with the war film, and afterwards with three of the James Bond films.

However, more personal examples of his work show a taste for adaptations of stage plays, such as Willy Russell's Educating Rita () and Shirley Valentine ().

Lewis Gilbert was born in Hackney, London on 6 March Raised in a second-generation family of music hall performers, his early stage experience allowed him to continue as a child actor in films such as Stoll-Stafford's Dick Turpin (d.

Victor Hanbury/John Stafford, ). Alexander Korda offered to send him to RADA, but Gilbert chose to study direction instead, notably as an assistant on Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn ().

During the war, he joined the RAF and directed sever