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Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and director. He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best known for the films he made with his third wife Anna Neagle.
- Herbert Sydney Wilcox, 19 April 1890, Norwood, South London, England
- 15 May 1977 (aged 87), London, England
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- Film producer, film director
May 16, 1977 · Herbert Wilcox, the film director and producer who was at times England's most successful film producer, died yesterday in his London home after a long illness. He was 85...
Herbert Wilcox was born on 19 April 1890 in West Norwood, London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Victoria the Great (1937), Spring in Park Lane (1948) and The Loves of Robert Burns (1930).
- Producer, Director, Writer
- April 19, 1890
- Herbert Wilcox
- May 15, 1977
Learn about the life and career of Herbert Wilcox, a producer and director of films in the UK and Hollywood. He produced and directed Victoria the Great, Spring in Park Lane and The Loves of Robert Burns, and was married to Anna Neagle and Maud Violet Bower.
- April 19, 1890
- May 15, 1977
They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.
- Herbert Wilcox
- William Alwyn
- Herbert Wilcox Productions
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Film producer and director. Born Herbert Sydney Wilcox at Norwood. He fought in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I and entered film production in 1922. He specialised in romantic, light-hearted films, with his protégée and later wife Anna Neagle starring in thirty-two of them.
The film was directed by Herbert Wilcox, and the screenplay by Warren Chetham-Strode was based on Jerrard Tickell's non-fiction book Odette: The Story of a British Agent. It was jointly produced by the husband and wife team Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle.
