Name Anatole Grunwald Role Film producer | Siblings Dimitri de Grunwald | |
Died January 13, 1967, London, United Kingdom Spouse Louise de Grunwald (m. ?–1967) Movies The Way to the Stars, The Yellow Rolls‑Royce, The Winslow Boy, The VIPs, Libel Similar People Anthony Asquith, Terence Rattigan, Harold French, Rodney Ackland, Ian Dalrymple | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
Anatole "Tolly" de Grunwald (25 December 1910 – 13 January 1967) was a Russian-born British film producer and screenwriter.
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Biography
de Grunwald was born in Saint Petersburg,(then Petrograd) Russia, the son of a diplomat (Constantin de Grunwald) in the service of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in France and England, studied at Caius & Gonville College, Cambridge, where he edited a student magazine 'The Europa' and attended the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He started his career in films by reading scripts for Paramount Pictures. He then turned to screenwriting in 1939 for the British film industry and eventually became a producer.
He was appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri de Grunwald in 1946. De Grunwald contributed to the scripts of many of his productions, including The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Holly and the Ivy (1952). Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s, invited by MGM, he went to the United States where he produced several films, then returned to England for the remainder of his career. Anatole de Grunwald's final films included The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965). He worked in close collaboration with the director Anthony Asquith and the dramatist Terence Rattigan, with whom he made many films.
Anatole de Grunwald died in London.