Profile of Roger Manvell on Famous Like Me

Biography

Roger Manvell was born in England on October 10th, 1909 and died on November 30th, 1987. The co-founder and first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade) was also the author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored (with Heinrich Fraenkel) many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his long and distinguished career he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name for himself as a broadcaster and screen writer.

Books

Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell...

Novels

Dreamers, The
Passion, The

On film/television

A Seat at the Cinema
Age of Communication: Press, Books, Films, Radio, TV
Animated Film: With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm'
Art in Movement: New Directions in Animation
Cinema, The (annual Pelican film review)
Experiment in the Film
Film and The Public (annual Pelican film review)
Film (annual Pelican film review)
German Cinema
History of the British Film
Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film
International Encyclopedia of Film, The
Living Screen: Background to the Film and Television
Love Goddesses of the Movies
New Cinema in Britain
New Cinema in Europe
New Cinema in The USA
On the air: A study of broadcasting in sound and television
Progress in Television
Shakespeare and the Film
Technique of Film Animation, The
Technique of Film Music, The
Theatre and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into Films
Three British screen plays: "Brief encounter","Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic"
What is Film?

On Nazi Germany

Canaris Conspiracy, The
Conspirators, The
Doctor Goebbels
Films and the Second World War
Göring
Hess
Himmler
Hitler: The Man and The Myth
Hundred Days to Hitler, The
Incomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century
July Plot, The SS & Gestapo: Rule of Terror

Other

Chaplin
Design in motion
Elizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London - A Biographical Study
Ellen Terry
Ingmar Bergman, an Appreciation
Sarah Siddons
This Age of Communication
Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, The

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