Michael Powell

Michael Powell was born in 1905 in Kent, the son of a hop farmer, and worked in a bank before entering cinema in 1925, as a general odd-job man, at the Nice studios. He directed more than twenty low-budget films before meeting, at the end of the thirties and through Alexander Korda, the Hungarian screenwriter with whom he would make his best-known films. The reception of a 1960 film essentially closed the industry of his country to him; he still made films in Australia, taught in the United States, and died in 1990.

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