Person    | Male  Born 30/12/1906  Died 25/4/1976

Sir Carol Reed

Categories: Cinema

Born Daisyfield, West Hill, Wandsworth. Film director, best known for The Third Man (1949), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and Oliver! (1968). Knighted in 1953. Illegitimate son of the actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and uncle to the actor Oliver Reed. Died at home, 213 Kings Road.

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Sir Carol Reed

This is the home where he died, 2 years earlier than the plaque would have it.

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