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Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
06 March
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageLewis Gilbert
Biography
Lewis Gilbert CBE (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them, such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and Moonraker (1979).
After the war, he continued writing and directing documentary shorts for Gaumont British, before entering low-budget feature film production. Gilbert became a director in the 1950s and 1960s with a series of successful films, often working as the film's writer and producer. These films were often based on true stories from the Second World War.
Examples include Reach for the Sky (1956) (based on the life of air ace Douglas Bader), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) (the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo), and Sink the Bismarck! (1960).
