Ronald Neame CBE, BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced
Brief Encounter (1945),
Great Expectations (1946), and
Oliver Twist (1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing. Neame then moved into directing, and some notable films included,
The Man Who Never Was (1956), which chronicled Operation Mincemeat, a British WWII deception operation,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adven...
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