Occupation Film producer Name Monja Danischewsky | Role Producer Books Out of My Mind | |
Full Name Monja John Danischewsky Other names John Danischewsky / M. Danischewsky Died October 16, 1994, Farnham, United Kingdom Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Movies Topkapi, The Battle of the Sexes, Two and Two Make Six, Run Wild - Run Free, Bitter Springs Similar People Michael Balcon, Basil Radford, Charles Crichton, Eric Ambler, Robert Morley | ||
Monja Danischewsky (28 April 1911—16 October 1994) was a producer, writer, and a worker who produced and wrote the famous film Topkapi and The Thomas Crown Affair with other people.
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Early life
Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919.
Career
He started out with various publicity jobs, then to Ealing Studios as publicity director in 1938 and occasional writer. Switched to producer 1949; became independent producer The Galloping Major (1951); returned as producer/writer in mid-1950s and continued briefly after Ealing ended; Rockets Galore (1958) and The Battle of the Sexes (1959). Autobiography, 'White Russian, Red Face', 1966.
As writer
As producer
Published works
References
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