The Lodger
1927
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C.M. Woolf. Biography. Charles Moss Woolf (1879–1942) was a British film distributor. He set up W. & F. Film Service in February 1919 with £10,000 of investment, along with S. Freedman, D. Tebbitt and Julius Hagen. [1] . By the late 1920s, he had become a chairman of Gainsborough Pictures and a joint managing director of Gaumont-British. [2]
Charles Moss Woolf (10 July 1879 – 31 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.
C.M. Woolf was born on 10 July 1879 in London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The First Born (1928) and Easy Virtue (1927). He died on 31 December 1942 in London, England, UK.
- Additional Crew, Producer
- July 10, 1879
- C.M. Woolf
- December 31, 1942
C.M. Woolf. Additional Crew: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. C.M. Woolf was born on 10 July 1879 in London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The First Born (1928) and Easy Virtue (1927). He died on 31 December 1942 in London, England, UK.
The Man Who Knew Too Much saw the first proper introduction of a " MacGuffin " — a storytelling device often attributed to MacPhail which appears in many of Hitchcock's subsequent films — in the guise of the message about the planned assassination of a foreign dignitary in London.
Jul 1, 1999 · He learned the movie business from his father, C.M. Woolf, a producer and distributor who created General Film Distributions and helped rebuild Britain’s film industry after World War II.
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John and James Woolf were the sons of the British producer C. M. Woolf (1879–1942), who was co-producer with Michael Balcon of two early Alfred Hitchcock films, Downhill (1927) and Easy Virtue (1928). Woolf senior was a major figure at Gaumont British and established General Film Distributors in 1937.
