Lance Comfort
| Lance Comfort | |
|---|---|
 Directing Jess Conrad in Rag Doll (1961) | |
| Born |
11 August 1908 London, England |
| Died |
23 August 1966 (age 58) Worthing, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Film director and film producer |
Lance Comfort (11 August 1908 – 25 August 1966) was an English film director and producer born in Harrow, London.
In a career spanning over 25 years he became one of the most prolific film directors in Britain, though never gained critical attention and remained on the fringes of the film industry, creating mostly B movies.[1]
Comfort carried on working almost right up to his death in Worthing, Sussex, 1966. He had four children: Edward, born in 1929, James, born in 1931, Anna, born in 1934, and Jack, born in 1936.
Filmography
- Penn of Pennsylvania (1941)
- Hatter's Castle (1942)
- Those Kids from Town (1942)
- Squadron Leader X (1943)
- Escape to Danger (1943)
- When We Are Married (1943)
- Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
- Hotel Reserve (1944)
- Great Day (1945)
- Bedelia (1946)
- Temptation Harbour (1947)
- Daughter of Darkness (1948)
- Silent Dust (1949)
- Portrait of Clare (1950)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1953-1957)
- The Girl on the Pier (1953)
- Bang! You're Dead (1954)
- Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
- The Man in the Road (1956)
- Face in the Night (1957)
- Man from Tangier (1957)
- At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
- The Ugly Duckling (1959)
- Make Mine a Million (1959)
- The Breaking Point (1961)
- Rag Doll (1961)
- Pit of Darkness (1961)
- The Painted Smile (1961)
- Touch of Death (1961)
- Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
- The Switch (1963)
- Blind Corner (1963)
- Live It Up! (also known as Sing and Swing in the U.S.) (1963)
- Be My Guest (1965)
- Devils of Darkness (1965)
Bibliography
- McFarlane, Brian, Lance Comfort (British Film Makers) - (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-7190-5484-2 and ISBN 978-0-7190-5484-6
- McFarlane, Brian, Lance Comfort: melodrama and an honourable career, Journal of Popular British Cinema 1, (1998)
References
- ↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/552314/index.html Lance Comfort
External links
- Lance Comfort at the Internet Movie Database
- screenonline.org.uk: Lance Comfort
- screenonline.org.uk: Painted Smile
- lovefilm.com - a selected filmography
- Archive: Book Reviews, May 2001
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