Woodfall Film Productions

Woodfall Film Productions is a British film production company established in the late 1950s. It was established by Tony Richardson, John Osborne and Harry Saltzman to make a screen adaptation of Osborne's best known play. The film version of Look Back in Anger, directed by Richardson and produced by Saltzman, was released in 1959. Following it, Woodfall produced several of the most significant British films of the 1960s.[1] A later Woodfall film, Tom Jones (1963), won four Academy Awards in 1964.[2]

Filmography

• Look Back in Anger (1959)
• The Entertainer (1960)
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)[3]
• A Taste of Honey (1961)[3]
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)[3]
• Tom Jones (1963)
• Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
• One Way Pendulum (1964)
• The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
• Mademoiselle (1966)
• The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
• Laughter in the Dark (1969)
• Hamlet (1969)
• Kes (1969)
• Ned Kelly (1970)
• Dead Cert (1974)
• Joseph Andrews (1977)
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

References

1. Sheldon Hall "Richardson, Tony (1928-1991)", BFI Screenonline citing Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors
2. "Facts: British Successes in the Academy Awards 1950-1979". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
3. Dowd, Vincent (April 2018). "Woodfall films: Bringing British stories to a new generation". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

External links

• Woodfall Film Productions at BFI
• Woodfall Film Productions at IMDb
• Woodfall Films website
• Parliament & the 1960s - 1966 Theatre Censorship Committee - UK Parliament Living Heritage