Lance Comfort
Lance Comfort ( born August 11, 1908 in London - Harrow as Lancelot Foster Comfort, † August 25 1966 in Worthing, Sussex ) was a British film director.
Life
Comfort began his career in 1926 as a trick of photography for medical educational films. The following year, can be at The faithful nymph ( The Constant Nymph ) prove his first work as a cartoon cameraman for feature film. 1932 brought him the company Stoll Pictures as a sound engineer to himself, in 1936 he moved to the job of being a "technical supervisor". Here he learned from colleagues John Baxter all about the government leadership.
Five years later, he was allowed to at the beginning of 1941 for the first time direct. Already his debut promised an interesting career. In quick succession, adapted the 33- year-old Briton two novel materials for the film, CE Vulliamys Quaker William Penn drama as the governor of Pennsylvania and AJ Cronin's Hatter's Castle ( in Germany: The Hatter and his castle ). In both dramatic fabrics with historic Backplot the very young Deborah Kerr took over two of her first major roles. However, while the first- Penn of Pennsylvania - a typical product of his time attempting to conjure up the close bond between England and the future Allies United States in the World War 1941 - was rather disappointing and poor, despite some effort reviews, provided the latter film for a more positive response.
Despite this ambitious career starts viewed Comfort had to settle in the subsequent period with the director orders for nearly continuously simple and mostly cheap manufactured routine maintenance. At most, his film adaptation of Bedelia, a novel by Vera Caspary, in 1946 a large box-office hit, and a year later converted adaptation of a novel by Georges Simenon, the criminal fabric port to the temptation to earn a little extra attention. Comforts other productions were mostly crime and horror films, but he also made several dramatic and melodramatic substances and a few comedies.
Late in his career Lance Comfort had also worked several times for television. So he staged example, several episodes of the series Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents at whose production he had in part also. Another moderate success with Comfort series as director was in 1958 with Ivanhoe afterwards the James Bond actor Roger Moore as the title character.