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Independent Artists (company)
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Independent Artists was a British production company of the 1950s and 1960s. It specialised in making second features.[1]
The company was strongest from 1958-63 when Julian Wintle ran it with Leslie Parkyn out of Beaconsfield Film Studios.[2][3]
Their films Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) and Tiger Bay (1959) were BAFTA nominated and BAFTA winning;[4][5] while This Sporting Life (1963) was Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning.[6][7][8]
Filmography
[edit]- The Dark Man (1951)
- The Stranger in Between (1952) aka Hunted - directed by Charles Crichton
- Death Goes to School (1953)
- Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
- Tiger Bay (1959)
- Breakout (1959)
- Violent Moment (1959) aka Rebound
- Deadly Record (1959)
- Chance Meeting (1959) aka Blind Date - directed by Joseph Losey
- The White Trap (1959)
- Devil's Bait (1959)
- Never Let Go (1960) -directed by John Guillermin with Richard Todd, Peter Sellers
- The Big Day (1960)
- October Moth (1960)
- The Malpas Mystery (1960)
- Linda (1960) - directed by Don Sharp with Carol White
- Snowball (1960) - with Denis Waterman[9]
- The Professionals (1960) -directed by Don Sharp
- The River of Life (1960) (documentary short)
- Sea Sanctuary (1960) (documentary short)
- Seven Keys (1961) - directed by Pat Jackson
- Very Important Person (1961)
- House of Mystery (1961)
- The Man in the Back Seat (1961)
- Echo of Barbara (1961)
- Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) - directed by John Guillermin with Peter Sellers
- Night of the Eagle (1962) aka Burn, Witch, Burn
- Crooks Anonymous (1962) - directed by Ken Annakin with Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
- Play It Cool (1962) - directed by Michael Winner with Billy Fury
- Our National Heritage: The Living Pattern (1962) (documentary short)
- The Fast Lady (1963) - directed by Ken Annakin with Stanley Baxter and Julie Christie
- This Sporting Life (1963) - directed by Lindsay Anderson with Richard Harris
- The Human Jungle (1963–1964) (TV series)
- Unearthly Stranger (1963)
- Bitter Harvest (1963) - with Janet Munro
- Father Came Too! (1964)
- Strictly for the Birds (1964)
References
[edit]- ^ Laura Mayne (2017) Whatever happened to the British ‘B’ movie? Micro-budget film-making and the death of the one-hour supporting feature in the early 1960s, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 37:3, 559-576, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2016.1220765
- ^ "An Oral History of Independent Artists". British Cinema. 19 October 2015.
- ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2017). The British 'B' Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 131–132. ISBN 9781844575749.
- ^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
- ^ "Film in 1960 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
- ^ "David Storey, Author and Screenwriter of 'This Sporting Life,' Dies at 83". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Film in 1964 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (30 July 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1963 and 1964". Filmink. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (4 July 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1960". Filmink. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
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