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John Philip Baxter (31 December 1896 – 21 January 1975) was a British filmmaker active from the 1930s to the late-1950s. During that time, he produced, wrote, or directed several films.
John Baxter. Director: Fortune Lane. A maker of unpretentious working class comedies and musicals, John Baxter had started his career as a music hall performer himself and would later gravitate toward vehicles for the charming popular WWII duo Flanagan and Allen as well as the low brow transvestite humor of Old Mother Riley.
- January 1, 1
- Foots Cray, Kent, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
Prolific British producer and director of modestly-budgeted working-class melodramas and comedies. At British National in the 1930s, he set up his own company, John Baxter Productions, in 1944. In 1951 he helped establish Group 3 with John Grierson (I) and Michael Balcon.
- December 31, 1896
- February 15, 1975
THE CITY OF LIGHT DURING THE GREAT WAR and FIVE NIGHTS IN PARIS; AFTER DARK IN THE CITY OF LIGHT. John has co-directed the annual Paris Writers Workshop and is a frequent lecturer and public speaker. His hobbies are cooking and book collecting. He has a major collection of modern first editions.
Oct 6, 2003 · John Baxter. 3.11. 229 ratings19 reviews. The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.
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As a director, Carol Reed hasn't aged well, but this film, perhaps because he had the help of Orson Welles and Graham Greene, stands almost alone in his work. No film has captured so skilfully the weariness of post-war Europe and the sense that the first casualty of the conflict was the values it was supposedly fought to preserve.
Director. John Baxter was born in Foot's Cray, Kent, in 1896. He joined the army on the outbreak of the First World War, initially entertaining the troops in concert parties, but eventually serving at Passchendaele.
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