A professional organisation representing directors across all aspects of the media. It was founded by a group of leading British directors who were dissatisfied with their representation by the technical trades unions.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Directors Guild of Great Britain
Michael Powell, 1905 - 1990, film director, lived here, 1951 - 1971. Director...
Actor. Born Jennifer Ann Agutter in Taunton, Somerset. Best remembered for playing the role of 'Bobbie' in the 1970 film version of the Railway Children. She had played the same role in a televisio...
Flour miller and film-maker. Born Joseph Arthur Rank at Chestnut Villas, Holderness Road, Drypool, Kingston upon Hull. He worked for many years in his (very wealthy) father's flour milling business...
Film producer. Born Sandor Kellner in Hungary. Worked in film in Hungary, Austria and Germany and then in Hollywood 1926-30. He then moved to Britain where he became a leading figure in the film i...
In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centenary of cinema. See the pdf.
Character actor. Â Born Lancashire. Â Played many comic roles. Â Late in her life Alan Bennett wrote a number of roles for her.
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