Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His later controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, while today considered a classic, and a contender as the first "slasher", was so vilified on first release that his career was seriously damaged. Many filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and George A. Romero have cited Powell as an influence. In 1981, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award along wit...
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The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Age of Consent
They're a Weird Mob
The Queen's Guards
Peeping Tom
Honeymoon
Ill Met by Moonlight
The Battle of the River Plate
Oh... Rosalinda!!
The Tales of Hoffmann
Gone to Earth
The Small Back Room
The Fighting Pimpernel
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death
I Know Where I'm Going!
A Canterbury Tale
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
49th Parallel
Contraband
The Thief of Bagdad- SMSmith
The Lion Has Wings
U-Boat 29
The Edge of the World
The Man Behind the Mask
Crown v. Stevens
The Brown Wallet- SOSomeday
Her Last Affaire
The Price of a Song
Lazybones
The Girl in the Crowd
The Phantom Light
The Love Test
Something Always Happens
Red Ensign
The Fire Raisers
The Murder Party
Born Lucky
Hotel Splendide- MYMy Friend the King
C.O.D.
His Lordship
Rynox
