Charles Moss Woolf (10 July 187931 December 1942) was a British film distributor.
Biography
Woolf made a fortune by financing, distributing and exhibiting films after World War I, including some of
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featu ...
's first films. In 1935 he resigned from the
Gaumont British Picture Corporation and formed
General Film Distributors. He brought
J. Arthur Rank into the film industry.
He was the father of producers
John and James Woolf, and of
Rosemary Woolf, a scholar of medieval literature.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' (1927)
* ''
The Vortex
''The Vortex'' is a play in three acts by the English writer and actor Noël Coward. The play depicts the sexual vanity of a rich, ageing beauty, her troubled relationship with her adult son, and drug abuse in British society circles after the ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Easy Virtue'' (1928)
* ''
The First Born'' (1928)
* ''
The Return of the Rat'' (1929)
* ''
No Monkey Business'' (1935)
* ''
When Knights Were Bold'' (1936)
References
External links
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British film producers
1879 births
1942 deaths