Anatole de Grunwald


Anatole "Tolly" de Grunwald was a Russian British film producer and screenwriter.

Biography

De Grunwald was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the son of a diplomat in the service of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in France and England, studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he edited a student magazine, The Europa, and attended the University of Paris. He started his career in films by reading scripts for Gaumont-British. He then turned to screenwriting in 1939 for the British film industry and eventually became a producer.
He was appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri de Grunwald in 1946. De Grunwald contributed to the scripts of many of his productions, including The Winslow Boy and The Holly and the Ivy. Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s, invited by MGM, he went to the United States where he produced several films, then returned to England for the remainder of his career. Anatole de Grunwald's final films included The V.I.P.s and The Yellow Rolls-Royce. He worked in close collaboration with the director Anthony Asquith and the dramatist Terence Rattigan, with whom he made many films.
Anatole de Grunwald died in London.

Filmography

Pygmalion— 1938 Discoveries — 1938 French Without Tears – 1939 Spy for a Day — 1940 Major Barbara — 1941 Pimpernel Smith — 1941 Quiet Wedding – 1941 Jeannie — 1941 Cottage to Let — 1941 Freedom Radio - 1941 Penn of Pennsylvania — 1942 The Day Will Dawn — 1942 Unpublished Story — 1942 The First of the Few – 1942 Secret Mission — 1942 Tomorrow We Live - 1943 They Met in the Dark — 1943 The Demi-Paradise – 1943English Without Tears — 1944 The Way to the Stars – 1945 While the Sun Shines —1947Bond Street — 1948The Winslow Boy – 1948 Now Barabbas — 1949 The Last Days of Dolwyn — 1949Golden Arrow — 1949The Queen of Spades – 1949Flesh and Blood — 1951Home at Seven — 1952 Treasure Hunt — 1952The Holly and the Ivy – 1952Women of Twilight — 1952 Innocents in Paris — 1953The Doctor's Dilemma – 1958Libel – 1959 Come Fly with Me – 1962I Thank a Fool – 1962The V.I.P.s – 1963The Yellow Rolls-Royce – 1964Stranger in the House – 1967