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Ronald Neame

1911 - 2010

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Ronald Neame CBE, BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing. Neame then moved into directing, and some notable films included, The Man Who Never Was (1956), which chronicled Operation Mincemeat, a British WWII deception operation, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adventure disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Neame is the 835th most popular film director (up from 853rd in 2019), the 3,207th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,937th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ronald Neame ranks 835 out of 2,041. Before him are Luis Trenker, Arturo Ripstein, Ferzan Özpetek, Edgar Reitz, Mick Jackson, and Pyotr Chardynin. After him are Alexandre Trauner, Grigory Chukhray, Henri Decoin, Ruben Östlund, Arthur Cohn, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ronald Neame ranks 205. Before him are Mary Blair, Betty Robinson, Guido del Mestri, Marie Osborne Yeats, Yang Jiang, and Antonio Guzmán Fernández. After him are Gustave Gilbert, Alfons Dorfner, Terry-Thomas, Ruth Ford, Amir Hamzah, and Luise Rinser. Among people deceased in 2010, Ronald Neame ranks 235. Before him are Yvonne Loriod, Jacqueline de Romilly, Gheorghe Apostol, Marie Osborne Yeats, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Zoltán Varga. After him are Imre Polyák, Robert Byrd, Dixie Carter, Nelly Landry, Jamie Gillis, and Stephen J. Cannell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Neame ranks 3,208 out of 8,785. Before him are Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), Stanley Baker (1928), Harry Styles (1994), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), and Henry Travers (1874). After him are Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Philip Catherine (1942), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Simon McBurney (1957), Spencer Gore (1850), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ronald Neame ranks 69. Before him are Jonathan Glazer (1965), Richard Marquand (1937), Jack Cardiff (1914), Jack Clayton (1921), Stephen Daldry (1960), and Mick Jackson (1943). After him are Andrea Arnold (1961), Joe Wright (1972), Charles Crichton (1910), Barry Ackroyd (1954), Ol Parker (1969), and John Alcott (1930).

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