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your postal address to danielclark@kodak.com. The closing date for submissions is March 18.
Finally, in May BAFTA will again have a presence at The Production Show (May 21-23). The Production Show 2002 is for every- one involved in production, post, new media and media streaming be it for television, film, commer- cials or corporate communica- tions.
The exhibition will cover the whole spectrum of technology and creative services. Moving the Show to late May 2002 (six weeks after NAB) presents many bene- fits. Underpinning all of these is that the exhibition will provide the first UK opportunity to show, see and talk with clients about the new technologies and unveiled at NAB.
This year, there will be a Production
Services &
Craft Village
where
BAFTA’s
stand will be
located, but
our activities
this year are
not simply
limited to
the stand. We will also be pro- ducing some of The Production Craft Workshops. This is a series of free workshops through the show, designed to cater for the educa- tional and creative needs of pro- duction professionals.
Registration for the Show began on February 1.
For further information visit http://www.productionshow.com
On top of all this, we have events looking at the craft of the stunt person, Bollywood Music and Costumes, The E4 Story, and many, many more.
Sir Nigel Hawthorne CBE 1S929-2001
ir Nigel, who died on Boxing Day aged 72, was one of our best-loved actors who
moved seamlessly between tele- vision, stage and cinema.
He won no fewer than five BAFTA awards, including three for his role as manipulative civil ser- vant Sir Humphrey Appleby in BBC TV’s classy sitcom Yes, Minister and its follow-up, Yes, Prime Minister.
Later, there were back-to- back Best Actor awards for The Madness Of King George, as embattled monarch George III, and The Fragile Heart, in which he played a beleaguered surgeon.
Born in Coventry but raised in South Africa, Hawthorne was back in London by the turn of the Sixties where he appeared as Field Marshal Haig in Joan Littlewood’s premiere production of Oh, What A Lovely War.
Although he enjoyed continu- ing stage success in plays by Edward Bond, Peter Nichols, Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard and William Nicholson (as CS Lewis in Shadowlands), it was thanks to TV that he finally became a house- hold name.
His inspired sparring with MP- turned-PM Paul Eddington in the comically satiric scripts by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn helped make the Yes, Minister series and its equally popular sequel small screen classics of the eighties.
In 1991 Hawthorne won unani- mous praise and Actor of the Year in the Oliver Awards for the National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s The Madness Of King George III. Although there was talk of a bigger ‘name’ when it eventually came to cast- ing the film version (without the roman numerals), Hawthorne - with Bennett’s four-square sup- port – rightly retained the title role and compounded his earlier stage triumph, adding an Oscar nomination to his BAFTA award.
From an uncredited ‘Boer sen- try’ in 1972’s Young Winston to the voice of eccentric adventurer Professor Archimedes Q Potter in Disney’s 1999 animated box-office hit, Tarzan, Hawthorne flirted with
the cinema for thirty years. Juicy roles in, latterly, Demolition Man, Amistad, Madeline and The Winslow Boy confirmed his big- screen versatility.
Awarded a CBE in 1987 and then knighted in 1999, he eventu- ally succumbed to a heart attack following treatment for pancreat- ic cancer.
GTeorge Harrison 1943-2001 he life of “the quiet Beatle” as composer, performer, singer and pop icon has been ade- quately covered elsewhere.
It’s the significant contribution of Harrison - who died last November aged 58 – to British filmmaking that is noted here.
Thanks to an eleventh hour intervention by Harrison and his business manager Denis O’Brien, Monty Python’s Life Of Brian was rescued from oblivion on the eve of production when Lord Delfont’s finances were suddenly withdrawn.
The Python classic proved a profitable kick-start for his new production-distribution company Handmade Films, an operation which, noted film critic Alexander Walker, “was like some of the early films it backed, small and idiosyncratic.”
A year later Handmade plucked The Long Good Friday from the jaws of Delfont’s brother, Lord Grade, who wanted to cut it extensively for TV. The result was another successful, award-win- ning film release.
Handmade’s subsequent track record was extremely mixed but its highs like Time Bandits, The Missionary, A Private Function,
Mona Lisa and Withnail & I proved to be some of the best- ever of British.
Just how hands-on Harrison was is fondly recalled by Withnail’s writer-director Bruce Robinson in a conversational memoir, Smoking In Bed: “... the script ended up on George Harrison’s lap, first class on his way to New York. He read it and said, ‘We’ll make it...’”
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Wildlife On 1 and, in 1979, the BAFTA award-winning Voyage Of The Beagle, has died aged 66.
A veteran of Fleet Street where he was once Mirror Photographer of the Year, he became interested in wildlife cine photography during the sixties selling footage to Anglia’s Survival series.
In 1972 he was hired by the BBC’s Natural History Unit to make several films including three in the Private Life series notably The Private Life of the Cuckoo.
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has died aged 90.
After a number of Ealing pro-
ductions including Went The Day Well?, The Foreman Went To France and Undercover, the London-born cinematographer went on to become one of the most prolific cameramen in the British film industry.
Among his subsequent credits were Green For Danger, The Hasty Heart, The End Of The Affair and The Admirable Crichton as well as a string of fantasy classics like The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Mysterious Island and Jason And The Argonauts, all animated by Ray Harryhausen.
obituaries
aurice Tibbles, the wildlife film-maker whose work included Life On Earth,
ilkie Cooper BSC, who worked on more than 70 films across five decades,
ed The Colditz Story, Manuela, I
van Foxwell, whose films as an independent producer includ-
A Touch Of Larceny, Tiara Tahiti and The Quiller Memorandum, has died aged 87. Quentin Falk
Archive photos courtesy Kobal
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