Harry Alan Towers

Harry Alan Towers (* October 19, 1920 in London, England; † 31 July 2009) was a British film producer and screenwriter.

Life

Towers wrote under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck first several novels before he wrote film scripts since 1946. In the service of the Royal Air Force During the Second World War, he had begun to write for the radio. 1952/53, he produced the radio shows The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower by CS Forester 's novels. Inspired by the movie " The Third Man" (1949 ) with Orson Welles produced Towers with his company Towers of London also has a multi-part radio series entitled The Lives of Harry Lime.

Since the early 1960s, Towers also produced films, mostly according to their own scripts, and adventure films for stories by Sax Rohmer ( Doctor Fu Man Chu, Sumuru ) and Edgar Wallace ( Sanders ). In the late 1960s Towers also produced some films of the Spanish director Jess Franco - enfant terribles. Film productions that he (often in co-production with Cannon Films ) produced in the late 1980s were marked by much violence.

Towers was married to the Austrian actress Maria Rohm since 1964. He died on 31 July 2009 after a short illness.

Filmography (selection)

376628
de