Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman (1912—14 June 2006) was a British cinematographer and film producer. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... is focus puller (1st assistant cameraman) clapper loader (2nd assistant cameraman) second unit assistant camera trainee (camera production assistant) gaffer, best boy, and electricians (also called Set Lighting Technicians, Lamp Operators or nicknamed sparks or juicers) key grip, best boy grip, dolly grip, grips production designer and art director costume...

Berman began his film career as a camera assistant at Twickenham Film Studios when he was 17. He became a camera operator in 1934, working for the Associated British Picture Corporation at Teddington Studios, and later for the comedy producers Ealing Studios.^[1] In cinematography, a focus puller or first assistant camera (1 AC) is the member of a film crew responsible for keeping the cameras focus right during a shoot. ... Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St. ... A Camera Operator uses a camera to capture moving images in events and scenes. ... Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production company active from 1927 until 1970. ... Teddington Studios in London. ... Ealing Studios, a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London, claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. ...

During World War II Berman served in an army film unit and post-war, in 1948, he co-founded, with Robert S. Baker, the company Tempean Films which produced more than 30 thriller B-movies in the 1950s. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ...

By 1962 it had become clear that the era of the B-movie was ending and Berman and Baker obtained the television rights to Leslie Charteris's The Saint adventure stories.^[2] Leslie Charteris (May 12, 1907, Singapore–April 15, 1993) was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, to a Chinese father and an English mother. ... The Saint was a long-running British action adventure television series, made by ITC Entertainment, that aired on ITV stations between 1962 and 1969, and on American television as a syndicated show (1962-1967) and on NBC (1967-69). ...

Unable to sell the rights on to Associated-Rediffusion, then Britain's largest commercial television company, Berman turned to Lew Grade's ITC.^[1] This company was at that time a sister company to ATV, one of the other commercial television companies in the UK, and had access to important export markets.^[3] This allowed The Saint to do well in both Britain and in other markets.^[4] Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion London, was the British Independent Television (commercial television) contractor for London, on weekdays between 1954 (transmissions started on September 22, 1955) and July 29, 1968. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ... Lew Grade, Baron Grade (birth name Louis Winogradsky) (December 25, 1906 - December 13, 1998) was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom. ... The ITC Entertainment logo The Incorporated Television Company (ITC) was founded by television mogul Lew Grade in 1954. ... Associated TeleVision Limited, later ATV Network and best known simply as ATV, was a British ITV company from 1955 until 1981. ...

This success led to Berman creating in more ITC productions, including later cult hits The Baron, The Champions, Department S and its sequel Jason King and Berman's last rating hit, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Berman's final creation was 1972's The Adventurer.^[5] The Baron was a British television series, made in 1966 and produced by ITC Entertainment. ... Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon, and William Gaunt as The Champions. ... Department S was a British espionage/science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. ... Jason King was a TV series which had 26 episodes broadcast in the UK in 1971 and 1972. ... Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was a late-1960s British TV show about two private detectives. ... The Adventurer was an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Vallance, David. "Monty Berman", The Independent (subscription required), Independent News and Media, 2006-08-04, pp. 42-43. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. (in English)
2. ^ Gaughan, Gavin (2006-08-14). Monty Berman. GuardianUnlimited: Film. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved on 2006-08-20.
3. ^ Brockman, David (Undated). The Forgotten ATV. Television House: The Widespread World of Rediffusion. Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. Retrieved on 2006-08-20.
4. ^ Bodenheimer, Dan (2004). The Saint on TV. The Saintly Bible. The Saint Club. Retrieved on 2006-08-20.
5. ^ Internet Movie Database entry for Monty Berman, accessed 20 August 2006

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External links

• Monty Berman at the Internet Movie Database
• The Morning After ITC fan site
• Television Heaven fan site on The Saint