Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing.
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Neame and Judy Garland on the set of I Could Go On Singing | |
| Born | 23 April 1911 London, England, U.K. |
| Died | 16 June 2010 (aged 99) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom United States |
| Education | Hurstpierpoint College |
| Alma mater | University College School |
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| Years active | 1939–1991 |
| Spouse(s) | Beryl Yolanda Warburton
Heanly (m. 1933 – div. 1992) Donna Friedberg (m. 1993) |
| Children | Christopher Neame |
| Parent(s) | Ivy Close Elwin Neame |
Neame then moved into directing, and some notable films included, The Man Who Never Was (1956), which chronicled Operation Mincemeat, a British WWII deception operation, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adventure disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972). He also directed I Could Go On Singing (1963), Judy Garland's last film, and Scrooge (1970), starring Albert Finney.
For his contributions to the film industry, in 1996 Neame was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker.