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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey , Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook .
John Laurie (Red Ensign, Her Last Affaire, The Edge of the World, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going!, Return to the Edge of the World) Roger Livesey (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going!, A Matter of Life and Death) Raymond Massey (49th Parallel, A Matter of Life and Death)
Livesey was chosen by Michael Powell to play the lead in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) after Powell was denied his original choice, Laurence Olivier (Winston Churchill had objected to the film and the Fleet Air Arm refused to release Olivier, who had been a Hollywood film star before returning to England to take a Navy commission). [5]
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!
Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: [12] "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". [12]
See 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' reconsidered. By James Chapman and Christie, Ian. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (script) by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. ISBN 0-571-14355-5. Ian's book includes all the government papers and memos that showed them trying to stop the production - but the reason ...
The death of Robin Williams silenced one of Hollywood's greatest and funniest voices.From sitcoms like "Mork and Mindy," to the touching and inspiring "Dead Poet's Society," Williams was an actor ...
Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in April 1934. [1] Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic , and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!"