David Parfitt

English film producer and actor

David Parfitt

Born|  (1958-07-08) 8 July 1958 (age 66)

Sunderland, County Durham, England

Education| Barbara Speake Stage School, London
Occupation| Producer
Years active| 1971–present

David Parfitt (born 8 July 1958) is an English film producer, actor, and co-founder of Trademark Films.[1] He won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 71st Academy Awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998).[2]

## Early life

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Parfitt was born in Sunderland and educated at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent school in London.

## Career

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He began his stage career with the Sunderland Empire Theatre Society in 1969 and later gained work on television, including playing Peter Harrison in the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three (1971–1973) and its sequel ...And Mother Makes Five (1974–1976) and appearing in Love in a Cold Climate (1980). In the BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers, he was the first actor in the role of Tim Beecham, an old friend of Nigel Pargetter.

### Work as a producer

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Parfitt gave up acting in the late 1980s to concentrate on production. He co-founded the Renaissance Theatre Company with Kenneth Branagh in 1987, and was associate producer of Renaissance Film's first production, Henry V in 1989. Since then he has produced and associate-produced many British films, including Peter's Friends, Swan Song (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Twelfth Night (1996), The Wings of the Dove (1997), Gangs of New York (Production Consultant), I Capture the Castle, Chasing Liberty, A Bunch of Amateurs, My Week with Marilyn, Loving Vincent and Red Joan. Shakespeare in Love won the BAFTA Award for Best Film[3] as well as the Academy Award and The Madness of King George won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film[4] in 1996.

He produced TV adaptations of Parade's End in 2012 and The Wipers Times in 2013 for the BBC, both of which were nominated for British Academy Television Awards.[5][6] His company has since produced The Wipers Times in theatres in the West End and throughout the UK.[7]

He also produced The Father (2020) and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture,[8] as well as nominations for Best Film and Outstanding British Film at the BAFTA Film Awards.[9]

### Other activities

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He was Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) from 2008 to 2010[10] and was Chair of Film London from 2010 to 2017.[11] Since 2018 he has been a governor of Dulwich College, where he was formerly a parent.[12]

## Personal life

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He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999. He lives in Brixton with his wife Liz and their three sons, Bill, Thomas and Max.

He is a supporter of Sunderland AFC.[13]

## Filmography

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He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

### Film

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Year  | Film  | Credit

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1989 | Henry V | Associate producer
1992 | Peter's Friends | Line producer
1993 | Much Ado About Nothing |
1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Co-producer
The Madness of King George |
1996 | Twelfth Night |
1997 | The Wings of the Dove |
1998 | Shakespeare in Love |
2003 | I Capture the Castle |
2004 | Chasing Liberty |
2008 | Dean Spanley | Executive producer
A Bunch of Amateurs |
2011 | My Week with Marilyn |
2017 | Loving Vincent | Executive producer
2018 | Red Joan |
2020 | The Father |

As an actor
Year  | Film  | Role

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1985 | The Doctor and the Devils | Billings
1987 | Mister Corbett's Ghost | Villager
1989 | Henry V | Messenger

Miscellaneous crew
Year  | Film  | Role

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2002 | Gangs of New York | Production consultant

Thanks
Year  | Film  | Role

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2003 | The Republic of Love | Many thanks

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Notes

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1989 | Look Back in Anger | Television film
2012 | Parade's End |
2013 | The Wipers Times | Television film
2014 | Glyndebourne: The Untold History | Documentary
TBA | The War Rooms |

As an actor
Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1971 | Elizabeth R | Philip's Son |
1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Pip |
The Kids from 47A | Starkey |
1971−73 | ...And Mother Makes Three | Peter Harrison |
1974−76 | ...And Mother Makes Five | Peter Redway |
1977 | Jackanory Playhouse | Mark Armitage |
Raffles | Pageboy |
The Peppermint Pig | George |
1978 | Play for Love | Peter |
Touch and Go | Charles |
The Lost Boys | Nico | Television film
1978−80 | Premiere | Police Constable

* * *

Young Nifty |
1980 | Mackenzie | Alan |
Love in a Cold Climate | Little Matt |
1981 | Honky Tonk Heroes | David |
Funny Man | Tommy Green |
1982 | Stalky & Co. | Beetle |
1983 | To the Lighthouse | Andrew Ramsay | Television film
1984 | Moonfleet | Boy with Gun |
1987 | Mister Corbett's Ghost | — | Television film

## References

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1. ^ "David Parfitt". Variety. 17 December 2013.
2. ^ "The 71st Academy Awards 1999". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
3. ^ "BAFTA Film in 1999". BAFTA.
4. ^ "Alexander Korda Award for the outstanding British Film of the Year in 1996". BAFTA.
5. ^ "Bafta TV awards 2013: full nominations". BBC News. 9 April 2013.
6. ^ "Bafta TV awards 2014: This year's nominations". The Independent. 18 May 2014.
7. ^ "The Wipers Times to return to the West End this autumn". London Theatre Guide. 19 February 2018.
8. ^ Bisset, Jennifer. "Oscars 2021 results: The full list of winners, from Nomadland to Daniel Kaluuya". CNET. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
9. ^ "Bafta Film Awards 2021: The winners and nominees in full". BBC News. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
10. ^ "The full list of BAFTA Chairs". BAFTA. 28 June 2012.
11. ^ "David Parfitt named chair of Film London". Screen Daily.
12. ^ "Dulwich College Governors". Dulwich College.
13. ^ Ford, Coreena (5 February 2006). "Mogul's call for extras". ChronicleLive.

## External links

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* David Parfitt at IMDb
* Trademark Films

Awards for David Parfitt

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Academy Award for Best Picture

1951–1975|

* Arthur Freed (1951)
* Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
* Buddy Adler (1953)
* Sam Spiegel (1954)
* Harold Hecht (1955)
* Michael Todd (1956)
* Sam Spiegel (1957)
* Arthur Freed (1958)
* Sam Zimbalist (1959)
* Billy Wilder (1960)
* Robert Wise (1961)
* Sam Spiegel (1962)
* Tony Richardson (1963)
* Jack L. Warner (1964)
* Robert Wise (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Walter Mirisch (1967)
* John Woolf (1968)
* Jerome Hellman (1969)
* Frank McCarthy (1970)
* Philip D'Antoni (1971)
* Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
* Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973)
* Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974)
* Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)

1976–2000|

* Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
* Charles H. Joffe (1977)
* Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
* Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
* Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
* David Puttnam (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* Saul Zaentz (1984)
* Sydney Pollack (1985)
* Arnold Kopelson (1986)
* Jeremy Thomas (1987)
* Mark Johnson (1988)
* Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
* Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
* Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
* Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
* Saul Zaentz (1996)
* James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
* Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
* Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
* David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)

2001–present|

* Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
* Martin Richards (2002)
* Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003)
* Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
* Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
* Graham King (2006)
* Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007)
* Christian Colson (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009)
* Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
* Thomas Langmann (2011)
* Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012)
* Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
* Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
* Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
* J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
* Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
* Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
* Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

1940s

* The Best Years of Our Lives (1947)
* Hamlet (1948)
* Bicycle Thieves (1949)

1950s

* All About Eve (1950)
* La Ronde (1951)
* The Sound Barrier (1952)
* Forbidden Games (1953)
* The Wages of Fear (1954)
* Richard III (1955)
* Gervaise (1956)
* The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* Room at the Top (1958)
* Ben-Hur (1959)

1960s

* The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
* Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Tom Jones (1963)
* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
* My Fair Lady (1965)
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966)
* A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)
* The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968)
* Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969)

1970s

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970)
* Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
* Cabaret (1972)
* Day for Night (1973)
* Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
* Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975)
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976)
* Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977)
* Julia – Richard Roth (1978)
* Manhattan (1979)

1980s

* The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
* Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981)
* Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983)
* The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984)
* The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985)
* A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986)
* Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987)
* The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988)
* Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989)

1990s

* Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990)
* The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991)
* Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992)
* Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993)
* Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994)
* Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995)
* The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
* The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997)
* Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
* American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

* Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001)
* The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
* The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004)
* Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005)
* The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006)
* Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007)
* Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008)
* The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

* The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
* The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011)
* Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
* 12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
* Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
* The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
* La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017)
* Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018)
* 1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s

* Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020)
* The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021)
* All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022)
* Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023)

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