Sydney Box
Writer, screenwriter

Sydney Box

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Writer, screenwriter
Gender:
Male
Places:
United Kingdom
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WriterScreenwriterFilm producerPlaywrightJournalistFilm director
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Birth:
29 April 1907(Beckenham, United Kingdom)
Death:
25 May 1983(Perth, Australia)
Star sign:
Taurus
Awards:
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Family:
Spouse(s):
Muriel Box
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Introduction

Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.

He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.

Sydney and Muriel divorced in 1969.

Gainsborough Studios

The couple were then hired by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio's major successes for several years and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results. Box made 36 films at Gainsborough. Gainsborough was merged into the Rank Organization in 1949.

Box ended his cinema career in 1958 to concentrate on working in television. Box was part of a consortium that launched Tyne Tees Television in 1959.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter and producer

  • 29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
  • The Seventh Veil (1945)
  • The Years Between (1946)
  • A Girl in a Million (1946)
  • The Happy Family (1952)
  • Too Young to Love (1959)

Producer

  • Country Town (1943)
  • Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
  • The Brothers (1947)
  • The Happy Family (1952)
  • The Beachcomber (1954)
  • Eyewitness (1956)
  • The Truth About Women (1957)
  • Subway in the Sky (1959)

Films as Head of Gainsborough

  • Jassy (1947)
  • When the Bough Breaks (1947)
  • Holiday Camp (1947)
  • Good-Time Girl (1948)
  • Snowbound (1948)
  • Miranda (1948)
  • Easy Money (1948)
  • Portrait from Life (1948)
  • The Lost People (1949)
  • Broken Journey (1948)
  • A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1948)
  • The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
  • Christopher Columbus (1949)
  • Boys in Brown (1949)
  • Diamond City (1949)