- Lance Comfort
Lance Comfort (
August 11 ,1908 -August 25 ,1966 ) was a successful Englishfilm director and producer born inHarrow, London .With a career spanning over 25 years he became one of the most prolific film directors in Britain though never gained critical attention and remained on the fringes of the film industry creating mostly
B movies . [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/552314/index.html Lance Comfort]Comfort carried on working almost right up to his death in
Worthing ,Sussex , 1966.Filmography
*"
Penn of Pennsylvania " (1941)
*"Hatter's Castle " (1941)
*"Those Kids from Town " (1941)
*"Squadron Leader X " (1942)
*"Escape to Danger " (1943)
*"When We Are Married " (1943)
*"Old Mother Riley Detective " (1943)
*"Hotel Reserve " (1944)
*"Great Day " (1945)
*"Bedelia" (1946)
*"Temptation Harbour " (1947)
*"Daughter of Darkness " (1948)
*"Silent Dust " (1949)
*"Portrait of Clare " (1950)
*"Douglas Fairbanks Presents " (1950)
*"The Girl on the Pier " (1953)
*"The Genie " (1953)
*"Bang! You're Dead " ((1954)
*"Eight O'Clock Walk " ((1954)
*"The Man in the Road " (1956)
*"Face in the Night " (1957)
*"The Man From Tangier " (1957)
*"At the Stroke of Nine " (1957)
*"The Ugly Duckling " (1959)
*"Make Mine a Million " (1959)
*"The Breaking Point " (1961)
*"Rag Doll " (1961)
*"Pit of Darkness " (1961)
*"Painted Smile " (1961)
*"Touch of Death" (1961)
*"Tomorrow at Ten " (1962)
*"Live It Up!" (also known as "Sing and Swing" in the U.S.) (1963)
*"Tomorrow at Ten " (1964)
*"Be My Guest" (1965)
*"Devils of Darkness " (1965)Bibliography
*McFarlane, Brian, "Lance Comfort (British Film Makers)" - (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002) ISBN 10 0719054842 and ISBN 13 978 0719054846
*McFarlane, Brian, "Lance Comfort: melodrama and an honourable career", Journal of Popular British Cinema 1, (1998)References
External links
*imdb name|id=0173806|name=Lance Comfort
* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/552314/ screenonline.org.uk: Lance Comfort]
* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1185724/ screenonline.org.uk: "Painted Smile"]
* [http://www.lovefilm.com/browse/contributor/98662/Lance_Comfort.html lovefilm.com - a selected filmography]
* [http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=may2001&id=533§ion=book_rev Archive: Book Reviews, May 2001]
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