Handmade Films was a Britishfilm production company set up by the BeatleGeorge Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brian in 1979, originally to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian after the original financers pulled out. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... The Beatles were a British pop and rock group from Liverpool. ... George Harrison, MBE (February 24, 1943 â November 29, 2001) was a popular British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, best known as a member of The Beatles. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from, Jesus. ...
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The former Beatle even makes a discreet cameo appearance in the film – as a man in a false beard, during a scene when Brian's mother turns round from talking to the crowds out of her window and finds the room full of people wanting her son.
HandmadeFilms, the independent film company which Harrison set up, went on to produce a great many films during the eighties.
Handmadefilms produced a number of films in the 16 years that Harrison was involved before he eventually sold the company in 1994 due to falling profits.