Lance Comfort


Lance Comfort was an English film director. He was a prolific maker of B movies from 1945 to 1965.

Early life

Lance Comfort was born in Harrow, London on 11 August 1908.

Career

In a career spanning over 25 years, he became one of the most prolific film directors in Britain, though he never gained critical attention and remained on the fringes of the film industry, creating mostly B movies. He made a number of films for British National Pictures.
Comfort carried on working almost right up to his death in Worthing, Sussex, on 25 August 1966.

Critical assessment

The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane praise Comfort's gifts "in the confident exercise of melodramatic impulses in the interests of illuminating character and relationship, in a decorative visual style to serve these impulses, and in giving their heads to string of dominant actors". They add that all of his films "are persuasive narratives, marked by absence of sentimentality and the whiff of human reality".

Filmography