John Lemont
John Lemont (* 1914 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, † 2004 in Bexhill -on-Sea, East Sussex, England) was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and film producer, who lived in England and there directed several feature films, including And are women cry, Konga and The whip.
Life and career
John Lemont, born 1914 in Toronto, began in 1955 to work for the cinema as a B-movie director and also to realize next episodes for British television. It arose impact on the television series London Playhouse (1 episode, 1955), Sixpenny Corner (10 episodes, 1955), Staying with Errol Flynn ( 6 episodes, 1956-1957 ) and Sir Francis Drake ( 3 episodes, 1962)
In 1959, he worked as a screenwriter for Wolf Rilla's thriller Witness in the dark. A year later, he wrote the screenplay for the crime drama The Shakedown with Terence Morgan, Hazel Court and Donald Pleasence in the lead roles, which he also directed himself.
In 1960 the Drama And women are crying with Ruth Danning.
In 1961, John Lemont, the director for the Herman Cohen Independent Science Fiction production Konga, a low-budget King Kong version with actor Michael Gough in the lead role.
In the same year he won The whip dedicated actors like Herbert Lom, John Gregson, Yvonne Romain and Sean Connery for his thriller.
John Lemont wrote in his career several screenplays, produced and even a few times at Independent productions directed.
In 2004, he died in Bexhill- on-Sea, in the county of East Sussex.