London Films

London Film Productions was the name of several British film production companies. The best known was founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda also called London Films production company, which produced about 100 films until 1956.

History

The first under the name London Film Productions production company operating in 1912 and was produced until 1920, more than 100 silent films.

1932, Alexander Korda, the company under the name of new and expanded in the following years the Denham Film Studios for the production facility from. As the first film, the company produced the crime film That Night in London by director Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat, Pearl Argyle and Miles Mander in the lead roles. In the following years the company produced internationally renowned films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933 ), is What to Come (1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936), The Four Feathers (1939 ), The Thief of Bagdad (1940 ) and The Third Man (1949 ).

In addition to Alexander Korda and his younger brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies as directors, Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Carol Reed worked for the company. Among the stars of the London film were actors like John Clements, Joseph Cotten, Robert Donat, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Sabu, Alida Valli and Conrad Veidt.

Following a restructuring of the company in the late 1940s, the Denham Film Studios were taken over by The Rank Organisation and merged with Pinewood Studios. In the years following, yet some of the London Films were produced at Shepperton Studios. After the death of Alexander Korda, it came in 1956 to the dissolution of society.

Finally, in 1975 another film production company under the name of London was founded Film Productions. This produced until 2001, several films and television series such as The Twilight Zone (1985). Last Morgan Mason was Chief Executive Officer of that company.