Name Charles Frend Role Film director | Books The Sky-bike | |
Died January 8, 1977, London, United Kingdom Nominations Academy Award for Best Film Editing, BAFTA Award for Best British Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film Movies The Cruel Sea, Scott of the Antarctic, Barnacle Bill, San Demetrio London, The Magnet Similar People John Stratton, Jack Hawkins, Michael Balcon, Nicholas Monsarrat, Donald Sinden | ||
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Charles Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977, London) was an English film director.
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Life
Frend was born in Pulborough, Sussex, on 21 November 1909 and was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and at Oxford University, where he was the film critic of The Isis Magazine. He began his career in the film industry at British International Pictures in 1931, and after editing Alfred Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934) moved to Gaumont British Pictures, where he worked as an editor on Hitchcock's films Secret Agent, Sabotage (both 1936) and Young and Innocent (1937).
For a time, Frend worked for MGM British at Denham Film Studios, where he edited A Yank at Oxford (1938), The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939). Frend graduated to director in 1942, with a series of above-average propaganda pictures and documentaries. After the war, he undertook several prestigious assignments including Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and The Cruel Sea (1953) for Ealing Studios. While most of his films were large-scale and dramatic in nature, Frend was also capable of turning out modest comedies such as A Run for Your Money (1949) and Barnacle Bill (1957).
His film The Long Arm (1956) won the Silver Bear for an Outstanding Single Achievement award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.
Frend directed episodes of Danger Man (1960–61), along with several other television series. His last credit as principal director was The Sky Bike (1967) for the Children's Film Foundation. He closed his career as one of the second-unit directors for David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970).
He died in London on 8 January 1977, aged 67.