Edward Godal was a British film producer and director. During the
First World War
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Godal ran a training school for actors. He became a leading
independent
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producer of British films after the war, becoming managing director of the small but ambitious
British & Colonial, based at
Walthamstow Studios from 1918 to 1924. He later became involved with plans to make
colour films at the newly built
Elstree Studios
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and a proposed big-budget adaptation of an
H.G. Wells novel, neither of which came to anything.
[Low p.198-199] His producing career largely ended with the arrival of
sound
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in 1929, and he made only one further film, in 1938.
Selected filmography
* ''
12.10'' (1919)
* ''
Queen's Evidence'' (1919)
* ''
The Scarlet Wooing'' (1920)
* ''
The Sword of Damocles'' (1920)
* ''
The Black Spider
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'' (1920)
* ''
The Temptress
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'' (1920)
* ''
Desire'' (1920)
* ''
The Puppet Man
''The Puppet Man'' is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Hugh Miller, Molly Adair and Hilda Anthony.Low p.432
Cast
* Hugh Miller as Alcide le Beau
* Molly Adair as Jenny Rose
* Hilda Anthony as Lilla L ...
'' (1921)
* ''
The Audacious Mr. Squire'' (1923)
* ''
Heartstrings'' (1923)
* ''
The Taming of the Shrew
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'' (1923)
* ''
The Dream of Eugene Aram'' (1923)
* ''
Love and Hate'' (1924)
* ''
Wanted, a Boy'' (1924)
* ''
Adventurous Youth'' (1928, also directed)
* ''
Chips
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'' (1938, also directed)
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929''. Routledge, 1997.
External links
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