Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald (25 December, 1910–13 January, 1967) was a British film producer and screenwriter.

Anatole de Grunwald was born in Petrograd, (now St. Petersburg), Russia, the son of a diplomat in the service of the Russian Tsar. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to England during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in England, studied at Cambridge and the Sorbonne and started a career as a journalist. He turned to screenwriting in 1939 for the British film industry, then became a producer. He was appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri De Grunwald in 1946. De Grunwald contributed to the scripts of many of his productions, including "The Winslow Boy" (1948) and "The Holly and the Ivy" (1953). Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s he did venture to the United States to produce a few films, then returned to England for the remainder of his career. Anatole de Grunwald's final film efforts included "The V.I.P.s" (1963) and "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" (1965). He worked in close collaboration with the director Anthony Asquith with whom he made several films.

His brother Dimitri De Grunwald was also a film producer in Britain.

Anatole de Grunwald died in London.

Partial filmography

* "French Without Tears" - 1939 (as screenwriter)
* "Quiet Wedding" - 1940 (as screenwriter)
* "The First of the Few" - 1942 (as screenwriter) (in the USA known as "Spitfire")
* "The Demi-Paradise" - 1942
* "The Way to the Stars" - 1945
* "The Winslow Boy" - 1948 (also as screenwriter)
* "The Holly & the Ivy" - 1954
* "The Doctor's Dilemma" - 1958
* "Libel" - 1961 (also as screenwriter)
* "Come Fly with Me" - 1962
* "The V.I.P.s" - 1963
* "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" - 1964
* "Stranger in the House" - 1967

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0344645/ IMDB]