Lewis Gilbert

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Lewis Gilbert, a British film director, producer, and screenwriter who produced more than 40 films in six decades; among those were titles such as Reach for the Sky (1956) and Sink the Bismarck. (1960) Alfie (1966), Edfie (1983), Education Rita (1989), and three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Early life

Lewis Gilbert was born in Clapton, London, to a second-generation music hall entertainer, Ada (Griver), who was of Jewish descent and George Gilbert, and watching the shows from the wings. When asked to drive a trick vehicle around the stage, he first appeared on stage at the age of five. So this was the end of his parents' performance, as this pleased the audience. His parents used to hide him in the luggage rack when traveling by train to avoid paying a fare for him. He died as a young man when Gilbert was seven years old, and his father contracted tuberculosis as a child.

He was the breadwinner for his family as a child actor in films in the 1920s and 1930s. His mother was a film actress, and he had an uneventical formal education. He played a small part in Victor Hanbury and John Stafford's Dick Turpin (1933) opposite Laurence Olivier at the age of 13. Alexander Korda was supposed to bring him to RADA, but Gilbert decided against going back to study instead, assisting Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939).

He joined the Royal Air Force's film unit, where he appeared in several documentary films before the Second World War began. He was eventually assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army Air Forces, where his commanding officer, William Keighley, an American film director, allowed Gilbert to do a lot of his filming duties.

Personal life

Gilbert was married to Hylda Tafler for 53 years before she died in June 2005. They had a son, Stephen, and a second, John, who was hers from the first marriage.

All My Flashbacks: Lewis Gilbert, Sixty Years A Film Director was published by Reynolds & Hearn in 2010.

Gilbert died in Monaco on February 23, 2018, aged 97.

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Directorial career

After the war, he continued to write and direct document shorts for Gaumont British before beginning to produce low budget feature film production. Gilbert made his name as a director in the 1950s and 1960s with a string of hit films, often serving as the film's writer and producer as well. These films were often based on true events from the Second World War. Reach for the Sky (1956), based on the life of air ace Douglas Bader), Carve Your Name With Pride (1958) (the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo) and Sink the Bismarck are two prime examples. (1960) adolescent.

Michael Caine appears in Gilbert's Alfie (1966) film. When Hylda arrived at the hair salon and spoke to an actress who was in a film, she discovered Bill Naughton's performance. After seeing the play, Hylda begged Gilbert to make it into a film. Gilbert used the tactic of making the lead character speak directly to the viewer, a technique he later used in Shirley Valentine (1989). Gilbert said Alfie was only made because the poor budget was "the kind of money "The sort of money Executives normally spend on cigar bills." The film received the Jury Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Gilbert was also selected for a Golden Globe for Best Director.

Gilbert was selected to direct Lionel Bart's musical version of Oliver in 1967, but he had to re-sign and resign; he suggested Carol Reed, who took over; Gilbert wrote, "It was the lowest point in my life."

"I'd developed Oliver!

Lionel Bart appeared in a film. Rather than doing The Adventurers, I had to do The Adventurers. I decided to do The Godfather while doing this film. Paraphrased It needed $7 million, according to me. So Gilbert made Friends (1971 film) rather than the Friends (1971 film).

Gilbert starred in three of the James Bond films, despite being well-known for character dramas. After some reluctance, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli persuaded him to tell You Only Live Twice (1967). He turned down the opportunity to direct On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Gilbert brought The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) to the series in the 1970s. After the production costs of Moonraker and Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate's financial collapse, United Artists was unable to afford to send him to direct the upcoming Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

He returned to more small-scale dramas in the 1980s with film versions of Willy Russell's Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989). Gilbert was also responsible for the film Stepping Out (1991).

In the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to the film industry, Gilbert was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Gilbert was named a Fellow of the British Film Institute in 2001, the highest honor in the British film industry.

He appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in June 2010. He said that his 1970 film The Adventurers was a disgrace, and that he should never have made it. Orson Welles' on Ferry to Hong Kong said it was "dreadful, it was my nightmare film." It was a horrible film, and everything was wrong with it, including him [Welles]. He also said that his biggest mistake was failing to direct the film version of Oliver's. Gilbert had promised Gilbert that no one else would produce the film, but Gilbert had agreed to He's now outraged and has canceled to produce a film.

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