Ray Selfe was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and movie theatre owner. Selfe was born into a working-class family in Croydon, Surrey and the age of ten found a passion for film. Selfe was later expelled from Pitman's College at the age of fourteen and became a projectionist at a local movie theatre and ran a mobile cinema, taking film shows to youth clubs. In 1950, he had a brief national service in the RAF and was later discharged on medical grounds. As a filmmaker, Selfe later went on to work on such films as ''

Four Dimensions of Greta ''Four Dimensions of Greta'' is a 1972 British sex comedy film directed and produced by Pete Walker, featuring four 3-D film sequences. It was the first British film to use 3-D, and the tagline on the poster read, "A girl in your lap". The fi ...

'' (1972), ''

White Cargo ''White Cargo'' is a 1942 film drama starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from ...

'' (1973), '' Emmanuelle in Soho'' (1981) and ''

Don't Open till Christmas ''Don't Open Till Christmas'' is a 1984 British slasher film directed by Edmund Purdom, and starring Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, and Gerry Sundquist. Written by Derek Ford and Alan Birkinshaw, the film follows a mysterious killer murderi ...

'' (1984). During Selfe's later years, he gained respect within the industry as a private film archive curator. Selfe died of a heart attack at age 69.

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