A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Simon Channing-Williams
Birthplace:
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
Born:
June 10, 1945
Died:
April 12, 2009
Simon Channing Williams (10 June 1945 – 11 April 2009) was a British film producer. After having worked as a production assistant and producer of TV films and TV series in the 1970s and early 1980s, he and Mike Leigh formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988. This company has produced all of Mike Leigh's films since then, among them the double Oscar-winning Topsy-Turvy, the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake and the Palme d'Or-winning Secrets & Lies. In addition to his collaborations with Mike Leigh, he also produced other films, including teen suicide drama New Year's Day (2001 film) in 1999. He co-produced Nick Love's first film Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2000, and the same year he formed Potboiler Productions with producer Gail Egan (who also works closely with Mike Leigh and has been involved in the production of several of his films). Through Potboiler Productions Channing Williams produced Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby and Fernando Meirelles' Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener. Channing Williams died aged 63, in Cornwall on 11 April 2009, five years after being diagnosed with cancer. Leigh paid tribute saying "His great phrase was 'let's just get on with things' and right almost to the last he was still working. He was a very extraordinary big man and he will be missed universally." Leigh dedicated his 2010 film Another Year to the memory of Simon Channing Williams. Following Channing Williams' death, Mike Leigh started to collaborate with producer Georgina Lowe, who in 2011 took over Channing Williams' half of Thin Man Films. A Most Wanted Man was dedicated to both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Simon Channing Williams in the closing credits. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Channing Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Co-Producer:
1987 The Short & Curlies
2008 Lecture 21
Executive Producer:
1987 The Short & Curlies
2006 Flannel Pajamas
2008 Blindness
2008 Lecture 21
In Memory Of:
1987 The Short & Curlies
2006 Flannel Pajamas
2008 Blindness
2008 Lecture 21
2010 Another Year
2014 A Most Wanted Man
Producer:
1987 The Short & Curlies
1989 High Hopes
1989 When the Whales Came
1990 Life Is Sweet
1992 A Sense of History
1993 Naked
1993 Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1995 Jack & Sarah
1995 The Great Kandinsky
1996 Secrets & Lies
1997 Career Girls
1999 Topsy-Turvy
2000 New Year's Day
2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright
2002 All or Nothing
2002 Nicholas Nickleby
2004 Man About Dog
2004 Vera Drake
2005 The Constant Gardener
2006 Brothers of the Head
2006 Flannel Pajamas
2008 Blindness
2008 Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 Lecture 21
2010 Another Year
2014 A Most Wanted Man
Production Assistant:
1975 The Breakthrough
1987 The Short & Curlies
1989 High Hopes
1989 When the Whales Came
1990 Life Is Sweet
1992 A Sense of History
1993 Naked
1993 Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1995 Jack & Sarah
1995 The Great Kandinsky
1996 Secrets & Lies
1997 Career Girls
1999 Topsy-Turvy
2000 New Year's Day
2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright
2002 All or Nothing
2002 Nicholas Nickleby
2004 Man About Dog
2004 Vera Drake
2005 The Constant Gardener
2006 Brothers of the Head
2006 Flannel Pajamas
2008 Blindness
2008 Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 Lecture 21
2010 Another Year
2014 A Most Wanted Man
Thanks:
1975 The Breakthrough
1987 The Short & Curlies
1989 High Hopes
1989 When the Whales Came
1990 Life Is Sweet
1992 A Sense of History
1993 Naked
1993 Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1995 Jack & Sarah
1995 The Great Kandinsky
1996 Secrets & Lies
1997 Career Girls
1999 Topsy-Turvy
2000 New Year's Day
2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright
2002 All or Nothing
2002 Nicholas Nickleby
2004 Man About Dog
2004 Vera Drake
2005 The Constant Gardener
2006 Brothers of the Head
2006 Flannel Pajamas
2006 The Last King of Scotland
2008 Blindness
2008 Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 Lecture 21
2010 Another Year
2014 A Most Wanted Man
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