Michael Stanley-Evans

Michael Melville Stanley-Evans was a British film executive and soldier who worked for many years at the Rank Organisation.

Biography

Stanley-Evans joined the Queen's Own Hussars in 1940 and had a distinguished war service during World War Two, being awarded the Military Cross for an action in Burma.
On peace time, he joined the Rank Organisation and became editor of their film trailers. In 1956 he became deputy executive producer of Rank under Earl St John, and from 1961 served on the boards of Rank Organisation Film Productions and Rank Productions. He resigned in 1964.
Stanley-Evans left Rank to work for Richard Attenborough as a producer. He worked on such films as Oh! What a Lovely War, Young Winston, A Bridge Too Far and Gandhi. Attenborough called their relationships "a friendship and a business relationship which proved to be of inestimable value to me."
Stanley-Evans retired to Spain and died in 2004.