Roy Boulting

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AKA: Roy A C Boulting
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 11/21/1913
Birthplace: Bray, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 11/05/2001

biography

Director-producer-screenwriter Roy Boulting may be best known to Americans through the gossip columns thanks to his May-December marriage to actress Hayley Mills, but in the film world he is heralded, along with his identical twin brother John, as a major force in the post-war British film industry. Roy directed (and John produced) such gritty dramas as "Thunder Rock" (1942) and "Brighton Rock/Young Scarface" (1947), then, in the 1950s, John directed and Roy produced such raucous comedies as "Private's Progress" (1955) and the trade union satire "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959).

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Credits

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milestones

Year
Milestone
1936 
Was assistant director on "Apron Fools"
1937 
Co-founded Charter Films with brother John
1937 
Film directorial debut with the short "The Landlady"
1938 
Directed the short "Seeing Stars"; also wrote and produced
1943 
Was member of Army Film Unit during World War II
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