Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald was seven years old when his father, a diplomat in the service of the Russian Czar, was forced to flee with his family to England during the Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in England, began a career as a journalist there and entered the British film industry in 1939 as a screenwriter, then a producer. He was eventually appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri De Grunwald. Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s he did venture to the US to produce a few movies, then returned to England for the remainder of his career.