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Gerry Blattner
Gerry Blattner (real first name Gerard) was a British film producer who worked on many films produced by Warner Bros. in the United Kingdom. Career Gerry Blattner was a British film producer and executive producer, best known for producing the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated and Golden Globe winning feature film '' The Sundowners'' (1960). Son of Ludwig Blattner (also a film producer, as well as an inventor), he followed his father into the film business. He was a production supervisor on '' My Lucky Star'' (1933), which was filmed at the Blattner Studios in Elstree. He was a production manager on '' The Edge of the World'' (1937) at the age of 24, a film produced by Joe Rock, who leased a studio amongst the Elstree Studios complex from Gerry's father in 1934 and appointed Gerry the studio manager. By the 1950s he was producing or overseeing the production of many of the Warner Bros. films made at Elstree and elsewhere in Europe such as '' Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. On the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207, a city in 1880, and a county borough independent of the newly-created Lancashire County Council in 1889. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was also home to both the Cunard and White Star Lines, and was the port of registry of the ocean li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
