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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.
Jun 18, 2010 · Ronald Neame, who has died aged 99, won two Oscar nominations for his screenplays for Brief Encounter and Great Expectations, and directed the award-winning The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Jun 18, 2010 · Poseidon Adventure director Ronald "Ronnie" Neame has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 99. The British film-maker, who died on Wednesday, never recovered after...
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC 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.
Jun 18, 2010 · By Peter Bowes. BBC News, Los Angeles. The film-maker Ronald Neame, one of the longest survivors from the early days of British cinema, has died in Los Angeles. He was 99. Neame, pictured with...
A hugely influential figure in British cinema, Ronald Neame worked for Alfred Hitchcock on the first British ‘talkie’ Blackmail (1929) and during the subsequent decade honed his talents as a cinematographer on a series of popular films starring George Formby, among others.
Neame regarded directing as an interpretative not a truly creative act and never aspired to be an innovative auteur imposing his vision on the material. He came from a generation of filmmakers who believed that a director should be as unobtrusive as possible.
