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's first films. In 1935 he resigned from the
Gaumont British Picture Corporation and formed
General Film Distributors
General Film Distributors (GFD), later known as J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors and Rank Film Distributors Ltd., was a British film distribution company based in London. It was active between 1935 and 1996, and from 1937 it was part of the Rank O ...
. He brought
J. Arthur Rank into the film industry.
He was the father of producers
John and James Woolf
Sir John Woolf (15 March 1913, London – 28 June 1999, London) and his brother James Woolf (2 March 1920, London – 30 May 1966, Beverly Hills, California) were British film producers. John and James founded the production companies Romulus Fil ...
, and of
Rosemary Woolf
Rosemary Estelle Woolf (27 December 1925 – 13 April 1978) was an English scholar of medieval literature, known especially for her work on medieval English religious lyrics, ''The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages''.
Biography
Wool ...
, 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
''The Return of the Rat'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans and Mabel Poulton. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at their Islington Studios. It was also released with a ...
'' (1929)
* ''
No Monkey Business
''No Monkey Business'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Gene Gerrard, June Clyde and Renée Houston.
Synopsis
After a music hall performer has his performing partner, an ape, confiscated by his financial cre ...
'' (1935)
* ''
When Knights Were Bold'' (1936)
References
External links
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British film producers
1879 births
1942 deaths