Frank Launder

Frank Launder was born in 1906 in Hitchin and formed with Sidney Gilliat a partnership, first of writing and then of directing: they wrote together for Hitchcock, made during the war films commissioned by the Ministry of Information, then in 1945 founded their own production company and directed their films in alternation. From 1954 to 1966 he led a series of four films drawn from newspaper cartoons, and returned to it in 1980. He died in 1997 in Monaco.

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• CinemaThe Belles of St Trinian'sFrank Launder · 1954Cinema