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2 unusual facts about London Films


Claude Dansey

Alexander Korda used his company, London Films, as an excuse to visit sensitive areas while "searching for film locations".

London Films

More than forty years after Korda died in January 1956, the company returned to active film-making in 1997 with Morgan Mason as the chief executive.


Compton Bennett

One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda's London Films in 1932.

Victor Saville

In 1937 he left to set up his own production company, Victor Saville Productions, and made three pictures for Alexander Korda's London Films at Denham studios.


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Bobby Henrey

Studio head of London Films Alexander Korda passed on the photograph to director Carol Reed, who thought it exactly matched his vision of the character, Phillipe, even though the photo had actually been taken in 1942 and showed Henrey when he was three years old.