A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Born:
August 13, 1914
Died:
September 16, 2024
Norman Spencer was the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who worked alongside director David Lean on films such as Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. He was Britain's second oldest man when he died.
Associate Producer:
1949 The Passionate Friends
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
Co-Producer:
1949 The Passionate Friends
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1987 Cry Freedom
Producer:
1949 The Passionate Friends
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1971 Vanishing Point
1987 Cry Freedom
Production Manager:
1945 The Rake's Progress
1946 Great Expectations
1947 Take My Life
1948 Blanche Fury
1948 Oliver Twist
1949 The Passionate Friends
1950 Madeleine
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1971 Vanishing Point
1987 Cry Freedom
Screenplay:
1945 The Rake's Progress
1946 Great Expectations
1947 Take My Life
1948 Blanche Fury
1948 Oliver Twist
1949 The Passionate Friends
1950 Madeleine
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1971 Vanishing Point
1987 Cry Freedom
Third Assistant Director:
1942 In Which We Serve
1945 The Rake's Progress
1946 Great Expectations
1947 Take My Life
1948 Blanche Fury
1948 Oliver Twist
1949 The Passionate Friends
1950 Madeleine
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1971 Vanishing Point
1987 Cry Freedom
Unit Manager:
1942 In Which We Serve
1945 Blithe Spirit
1945 The Rake's Progress
1946 Great Expectations
1947 Take My Life
1948 Blanche Fury
1948 Oliver Twist
1949 The Passionate Friends
1950 Madeleine
1951 Blackmailed
1952 The Sound Barrier
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 Summertime
1971 Vanishing Point
1987 Cry Freedom
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.