Formerly the G.P.O. Film Unit, it was an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information during World War II. Its remit was to make films for the general public in Britain and abroad. Output included short information and documentary films, as well as longer drama-documentaries. It continued to produce films, as part of the Central Office of Information (COI), until it was disbanded.
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Crown Film Unit
G.P.O. Film Unit, later Crown Film Unit, pioneers of documentary film making,...
Character actor. Born Lancashire. Played many comic roles. Late in her life Alan Bennett wrote a number of roles for her.
Actor. Born Flora McKenzie Robson in South Shields, County Durham. She made her stage debut in 1921, but found it difficult to obtain parts because she did not have the required good looks. She tem...
Born Warwickshire. Socialist film director. Work includes: Z-Cars (TV), Kes, The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...
Born as Harry Webb in India. Starred with Olivier in Dave Clark's Time. The Shadows were his backing group.
From their website: "We were founded by HRH The Duke of York, later HM King George VI, in 1925 as the National Playing Fields Association and are proud of our long heritage protecting parks and gre...
Explorer and naval administrator. Born Devon, the younger brother of Stephen.
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