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Michael Powell
Bekesbourne, Kent, England
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. They worked together und…
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Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. They worked together under the name of "The Archers" and produced a series of classic British films, notably The Thief of Bagdad (1940), 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). His controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, however, was so vilified that his career was seriously damaged.
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2025
AMR: Dying to Change the World
Movie Sound
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2024
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie Self (voice) (archive sound)
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2003
Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris
Movie Self (archive sound)
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1997
A Very British Psycho
Movie Himself
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1994
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Movie Thanks
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1992
Orlando
Movie Thanks
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1990
I Hired a Contract Killer
Movie In Memory Of
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1990
The Scorsese Machine
Movie Self
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1986
Laughter
Movie Himself
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1986
Tears
Movie Himself
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1986
Fear
Movie Himself
- 1985
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1983
Anna Pavlova
Movie Editor
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1981
A Pretty British Affair
Movie Interviewee
- 1980
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1978
Return to the Edge of the World
Movie Self
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1972
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Movie Director
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1969
Age of Consent
Movie Director
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1968
Sebastian
Movie Producer
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1966
They're a Weird Mob
Movie Director
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1963
Bluebeard's Castle
Movie Director
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1963
Espionage
TV show Director
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1961
The Queen's Guards
Movie Producer
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1961
The Defenders
TV show Director
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1960
Peeping Tom
Movie Mark's Father - A.N. Lewis (uncredited)
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1959
Honeymoon
Movie Guide Describing the Lovers of Teruel (voice) (uncredited)
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1957
Ill Met by Moonlight
Movie Director
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1956
The Battle of the River Plate
Movie Director
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1955
Oh... Rosalinda!!
Movie Director
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1955
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Movie Director
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1951
The Tales of Hoffmann
Movie Director
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1951
Aila – Pohjolan tytär
Movie Producer
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1950
The Elusive Pimpernel
Movie Director
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1950
Gone to Earth
Movie Director
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1949
The Small Back Room
Movie Director
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1948
The Red Shoes
Movie Producer
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1948
“The Red Shoes” Sketches
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