George Pearson (filmmaker)

George William Pearson ( born March 19, 1875 in Kennington, London, † February 8, 1973 in Malvern ) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter.

Life

Pearson worked as a teacher. 1913, as a married 37- year-old with three children, he gave up his teaching profession and began as a screenwriter and film producer in London PATHES Studios. In 1915 he went to Gaumont, where he was a British counterpart to the French Fantômas popular in four movies 1915-1917 Ultus, the avenger of injustice, invented.

In 1918 he founded with Thomas Welsh, the film production company Welsh - Pearson, produced in the new studios in Craven Park. Among her most financially successful films included four squibs comedies ( 1921-1923 ), established the Betty Balfour as a star in the UK. They owe their success to the mixture of down home humor of their heroes from the layer of the working class and the representation of typical mishaps of life, well received by the audience.

In addition to these works, the simple conversation he created with Nothing Else Matters (1920), Love, Life and Laughter (1923 ), Reveille (1924 ) and The Little People (1926 ) and artistically demanding, emotionally charged film dramas. Pearson put particular the visualization of the feelings of his protagonists with cinematic value. Reveille is regarded as his masterpiece, which portrays the struggle of ordinary people and injustices in peacetime. In this silent film Pearson presented a minute's silence for the war dead dar. particularly vividly

Pearson was an advocate of film art and became a founding member of the London Film Society and president of the Association of British film directors. He has lectured and spoke out against the introduction of quotas for British films, as this declining quality of British films. The transition to sound film did not make his company, they went bankrupt in the early 1930s. In 1934, he split from Welsh and turned to 1937 for Julius Hagen cheap productions in the Twickenham Studios.

The war began, Pearson went to Alberto Cavalcanti in the GPO Film Unit and cared as Director -in- Chief of the Colonial Film Unit for the training of filmmakers befriended Commonwealth States. In 1948 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1951 and the British Film Academy. In the same year he was awarded the Officer of the British Empire ( OBE). At the age of 80 years he retired from work and published in 1957 his autobiography Flashback: an Autobiography of A British film maker.