Gerald Thomas (1920 - 1993) was a British film director. Despite a fairly varied early career, Thomas is almost exclusively remembered as the director of some 28 Carry On films, the innuendo-laden British comedy series, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Carry On Sergeant is the first Carry On film, released in 1959. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links
The Whippit Inn Information on the Carry On film series
Gerald Thomas (born 1954) is also a Brazilian theatre director based in New York. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Born in 1954, GeraldThomas has spent his life between England, Brazil, Germany and the United States, graduating as a reader of Philosophy and beginning his life in the theater at La MaMa Experimental Theater.
GeraldThomas is the recipient of three Moliere Prizes, and eighteen other awards, and has been the subject of television documentaries for the German network NDR 3, the Brazilian network TV Cultura, USA's public network PBS and Austrian TV, ORF.
GeraldThomas writes regularly for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo and will begin to work with the Cricot 2 Company (of the late Kantor) in 1988.