Ronald Neame

Filmmakers

Ronald Elwin 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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adventure disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972). He also directed I Could Go On Singing (1963), Judy Garland‘s last film, and Scrooge (1970), with Albert Finney. Later films included The Poseidon Adventure (1972), with Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O’Connell, Eric Shea, and Leslie Nielsen; The Odessa File (1974), with Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell, and Maria Schell; Meteor (1979), with Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Richard Dysart, and Henry Fonda; Hopscotch (1980), with Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom; First Monday in October (1981), with Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, and Jan Sterling; Foreign Body (1986), with Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, and Amanda Donohoe. For his contributions to the film industry, in 1996 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker.

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  • Give Her a Ring (1934) – co-cinematographer
  • Invitation to the Waltz (1935) – co-cinematographer
  • Music Hath Charms (1935) – co-cinematographer
  • Drake of England (1935) – co-cinematographer
  • A Star Fell from Heaven (1936) – cinematographer
  • The Improper Duchess (1936) – cinematographer
  • King of the Castle (1936) – cinematographer
  • The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936) – cinematographer
  • Variety Hour (1937) – cinematographer
  • Cafe Colette (1937) – cinematographer
  • Feather Your Nest (1937) – cinematographer
  • Keep Fit (1937) – cinematographer
  • It’s in the Air (1938) – cinematographer
  • I See Ice (1938) – cinematographer
  • Who Goes Next? (1938) – cinematographer
  • The Gaunt Stranger (1938) – cinematographer
  • Penny Paradise (1938) – cinematographer
  • The Ware Case (1938) – cinematographer
  • Second Thoughts (1938) – cinematographer
  • Young Man’s Fancy (1939) – cinematographer
  • Let’s Be Famous (1939) – cinematographer
  • Come on George! (1939) – cinematographer
  • Trouble Brewing (1939) – cinematographer
  • The Four Just Men (1939) – cinematographer
  • Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) – cinematographer
  • Return to Yesterday (1940) – cinematographer
  • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) – cinematographer, photographic effects
  • This Happy Breed (1944) – co-writer, cinematographer
  • Blithe Spirit (1945) – co-writer, cinematographer
  • Brief Encounter (1945) – producer
  • Great Expectations (1946) co-writer, producer
  • Take My Life (1947) – director
  • Oliver Twist (1948) – producer
  • The Passionate Friends (1949) – producer
  • Golden Salamander (1950) – director
  • The Magic Box (1951) – producer
  • The Card (1952) – director
  • The Million Pound Note (1953) director, producer
  • The Man Who Never Was (1956) – director
  • The Seventh Sin (1957) – director
  • Windom’s Way (1957) – director
  • The Horse’s Mouth (1958) – director, producer
  • Tunes of Glory (1960) – director
  • Escape from Zahrain (1962) – director, producer
  • I Could Go On Singing (1963) – director
  • The Chalk Garden (1964) – director
  • Mister Moses (1965) – director
  • A Man Could Get Killed (1966) – director
  • Gambit (1966) – director
  • Prudence and the Pill (1968) – director
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) – director
  • Scrooge (1970) – director
  • The Poseidon Adventure (1972) – director
  • The Odessa File (1974) – director
  • Meteor (1979) – director
  • Hopscotch (1980) – director
  • First Monday in October (1981) – director
  • Foreign Body (1986) – director
  • The Magic Balloon (1990) – short; director, co-writer