biography
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| (1906–76)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in London, UK. He studied at Canterbury, and became an actor and director, joining the cinema in 1930. He produced or directed several major films, such as Kipps (1941), The Fallen Idol (1948), and Oliver! (1968, Oscar), but is best known for The Third Man (1949), depicting the sinister underworld of post-war, partitioned Vienna, based on the book by Graham Greene. He was knighted in 1952. |
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