Search results
Victor Saville (25 September 1895, Birmingham, England – 8 May 1979, London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962.
BFI Screenonline: Saville, Victor (1896-1979) Biography. Victor Saville was born in Birmingham on 25 September 1897, the second son of an art dealer. He entered the film industry as a films salesman in 1916 after wounds sustained in the battle of Loos had brought about his army discharge.
Victor Saville started in the film business as a cinema manager after being invalided out of the army in W.W.I. In the early twenties he became a producer with Michael Balcon and graduated to directing as talkies came in.
Victor Saville was born on 25 September 1897 in Birmingham as Victor Salberg. He was invalided out of the army during the First World War after sustaining serious wounds. On his return home he entered the nascent British film industry, becoming the manager of a small cinema in Coventry.
Owing to Roy Moseley's expert crafting, Evergreen: Victor Saville in His Own Words takes the reader behind the scenes of film's golden age to reveal the tensions and power plays involved in...
If Winter Comes is a 1947 American drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1921 novel by A.S.M. Hutchinson. The film tells the story of an English textbook writer who takes in a pregnant girl.
The Green Years is a 1946 American drama film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler and Hume Cronyn. It was adapted by Robert Ardrey and Sonya Levien from A. J. Cronin 's 1944 novel of the same name. It tells the story of the coming-of-age of an Irish orphan in Scotland.
