Name Edgar Anstey | Role Documentary maker | |
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Died September 26, 1987, London, United Kingdom Education Birkbeck, University of London, Watford Grammar School for Boys Awards Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action) Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Movies Elizabethan Express, Terminus, Snow, Snowdrift at Bleath Gill, Granton Trawler Similar People John Grierson, John Krish, David Watkin, Robert Paynter, John Schlesinger | ||
Edgar Anstey OBE (16 February 1907 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England – 26 September 1987 in London, England), was a leading British documentary film-maker.
Anstey was educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and Birkbeck College. He spent a few years as a civil servant before starting in 1930 at The Empire Marketing Board's film unit, under the direction of John Grierson. In 1949 he joined the British Transport Films unit, which he headed until 1974. He was nominated for the Short Subject (Live Action) Academy Award in 1965 for the documentary film Snow.
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