Sydney Box
- Film producer
- writer
- screenwriter
- film company co-founder
Sylvia Knowles
Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.[2]
He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife director Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.[3]
Sydney and Muriel married in 1935, had a daughter Leonora the following year, and divorced in 1969.[4]
Gainsborough Studios
The couple were hired after the war by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio's major successes for several years, and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results. Box made 36 films at Gainsborough, which was merged into the Rank Organization in 1949. In 1951 he founded his own production company London Independent Producers with William MacQuitty.
Box ended his cinema career in 1958 to concentrate on working in television. He was part of a consortium that launched the ITV franchise, Tyne Tees Television in 1959.
Selected filmography
Screenwriter and producer
- Alibi Inn (1935)
- 29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
- The Seventh Veil (1945)
- The Years Between (1946)
- A Girl in a Million (1946)
- The Happy Family (1952)
- Street Corner (1953)
- Too Young to Love (1959)
Producer
- Country Town (1943)
- Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
- The Brothers (1947)
- The Happy Family (1952)
- The Beachcomber (1954)
- Eyewitness (1956)
- The Truth About Women (1957)
- Subway in the Sky (1959)
Films as Head of Gainsborough
- The Man Within (1947)
- The Brothers (1947)
- Dear Murderer (1947)
- The Upturned Glass (1947)
- Holiday Camp (1947)
- Jassy (1947)
- When the Bough Breaks (1947)
- Easy Money (1948)
- Snowbound (1948)
- Miranda (1948)
- Broken Journey (1948)
- Good-Time Girl (1948)
- The Calendar (1948)
- My Brother's Keeper (1948)
- The Blind Goddess (1948)
- Quartet (1948)
- Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
- Portrait from Life (1948)
- Vote for Huggett (1949)
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
- It's Not Cricket (1949)
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
- The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
- Marry Me! (1949)
- Christopher Columbus (1949)
- Helter Skelter (1949)
- Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
- The Lost People (1949)
- Diamond City (1949)
- Boys in Brown (1949)
- Traveller's Joy (1949)
- The Astonished Heart (1950)
- So Long at the Fair (1950)
- Trio (1950)
Selected plays
- The Seventh Veil (1951)
References
- ^ Births England and Wales 1837-1915
- ^ Spicer, Andrew (2006). Sydney Box. British Film Makers. Manchester University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7190-5999-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ Morley, Carol (19 February 2023). "Who was Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female film director?". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ "Power women of the 1950s: Muriel and Betty Box". the Guardian. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
External links
- Sydney Box at IMDb
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- Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
- Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
- Norman Krasna (1943)
- Lamar Trotti (1944)
- Richard Schweizer (1945)
- Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
- Sidney Sheldon (1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh (1949)
- Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder (1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
- Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch (1953)
- Budd Schulberg (1954)
- Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
- Albert Lamorisse (1956)
- George Wells (1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
- Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
- William Inge (1961)
- Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
- James Webb (1963)
- S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
- Frederic Raphael (1965)
- Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
- William Rose (1967)
- Mel Brooks (1968)
- William Goldman (1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
- Jeremy Larner (1972)
- David S. Ward (1973)
- Robert Towne (1974)
- Frank Pierson (1975)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
- Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd (1978)
- Steve Tesich (1979)
- Bo Goldman (1980)
- Colin Welland (1981)
- John Briley (1982)
- Horton Foote (1983)
- Robert Benton (1984)
- William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W. Wallace (1985)
- Woody Allen (1986)
- John Patrick Shanley (1987)
- Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow (1988)
- Tom Schulman (1989)
- Bruce Joel Rubin (1990)
- Callie Khouri (1991)
- Neil Jordan (1992)
- Jane Campion (1993)
- Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
- Christopher McQuarrie (1995)
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997)
- Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
- Alan Ball (1999)
- Cameron Crowe (2000)
- Julian Fellowes (2001)
- Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
- Sofia Coppola (2003)
- Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman (2004)
- Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
- Michael Arndt (2006)
- Diablo Cody (2007)
- Dustin Lance Black (2008)
- Mark Boal (2009)
- David Seidler (2010)
- Woody Allen (2011)
- Quentin Tarantino (2012)
- Spike Jonze (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014)
- Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
- Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
- Jordan Peele (2017)
- Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
- Emerald Fennell (2020)
- Kenneth Branagh (2021)
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)
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