Gillliat, Sidney

Sidney Gillliat was born in Stockport, Cheshire on 15th February 1908. By the 1930s he was working consistently as a screenwriter, most famously with Frank Launder on films such as The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock and Night Train to Munich directed by Carol Reed. His first directorial job was also in partnership with Frank Launder when in 1943 they co-directed the home front drama Millions Like Us . After the war besides continuing to write singly and together Launder and Gilliat became producers in their own right, their first film being The Rake's Progress starring Rex Harrison,...