Person    | Male  Born 19/4/1890  Died 15/5/1977

Herbert Wilcox

Categories: Cinema

Film producer and director. Born Herbert Sydney Wilcox at Norwood. He fought in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and entered film production in 1922. Formed the British and Dominions Film Corporation (1927-38). He specialised in romantic, light-hearted films, with his protégée and later wife Anna Neagle starring in thirty-two of them. The so-called 'London Series' of films which included 'Spring in Park Lane' and 'Maytime in Mayfair' were amongst his most popular. In the 1950s a combination of financial misfortunes and changing audience tastes led to his bankruptcy. Appointed a C.B.E. in 1951. Died in London.

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