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Encyclopedia > Anthony Pelissier

Anthony Pelissier (1912-1988) was an English producer and director. 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up English on Wiktionary, the free dictionary As an adjective, English refers to anything from or pertaining to England. ... Producer may refer to: Theatrical producer Film producer Television producer Radio producer Online producer Executive producer, supervises one or more producers Record producer, or music producer, in the music industry Game producer, in the computer game industry. ... Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ...


He was from a theatrical family. His parents were the theatre producer H.G.Pelissier (who presented "Pelissier's Follies") and the distinguished actress Fay Compton. His uncle was the novelist Sir Compton MacKenzie (who wrote "Whisky Galore"). For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... British actress Fay Compton came from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts. ... Uncle may refer to: A family relationship, see Cousin chart Blind Uncle Gaspard Dutch uncle Kill Uncle My Uncle Benjamin Rich Uncle Pennybags Royal Uncle Cao The Man from U.N.C.L.E. the eponymous character from the Uncle series Uncle Albert Uncle Anesthesia Uncle Ben Uncle Buck Uncle... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (1883–1972), was an Scottish novelist. ... Whisky Galore is a well-known 1949 Ealing comedy film, in which a cargo vessel is sunk off a remote Scottish island—with 50,000 cases of whisky aboard. ...


He was married twice:

He died in Eastbourne in 1988, aged 76. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Eastbourne is a medium-sized town in East Sussex, on the south coast of Great Britain, with a population, according to the 2001 census, of around 90,000. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Selected Filmography

  • The History of Mr Polly (1949)

1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

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