Paul Soskin (23 February 190515 July 1975) was a Russian Empire-born British
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...
. Soskin was born in
Crimea. His first few films in Britain were low-budget
quota quickies, but his breakthrough came with the 1941 comedy ''
Quiet Wedding'' starring
Margaret Lockwood. In 1948 he produced director
Roy Ward Baker's drama ''
The Weaker Sex'' for
Two Cities Films''.
[Mayer p.193-94]
His daughter Tatiana married
Roddy Llewellyn.
Filmography
* ''
Ten Minute Alibi'' (1935)
* ''
While Parents Sleep'' (1935)
* ''
Two's Company'' (1936)
* ''
Quiet Wedding'' (1941)
* ''
The Day Will Dawn'' (1942)
* ''
The Weaker Sex'' (1948)
* ''
Waterfront'' (1950)
* ''
High Treason'' (1951)
* ''
Top of the Form'' (1953)
* ''
All for Mary
''All for Mary'' is a 1955 British comedy film brought to the screen by Paul Soskin Productions for the Rank Organisation. It was based on a successful West End play by the English husband and wife team of Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke. It wa ...
'' (1955)
* ''
Happy Is the Bride'' (1958)
* ''
Law and Disorder'' (1958)
References
Bibliography
* Mayer, Geoff. ''Roy Ward Baker''. Manchester University Press, 2004.
External links
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1905 births
1975 deaths
People from Kerch
Soviet emigrants to the United States
British film producers
British male screenwriters
20th-century British screenwriters
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