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Victor Saville
Victor Saville
83 years (Sep 25, 1895 – May 8, 1979)
Birmingham, England, UK
42 Directed
0 TV Directed
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Kim Wilde - Best Of - The Singles Collection 1981-1993
Director
2004
Film
My Gun Is Quick
Director
★ 5.5
1957
Film
The Silver Chalice
Director
★ 4.5
1954
Film
The Long Wait
Director
★ 5.9
1954
Film
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Director
★ 5.8
1952
Film
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Director
★ 6.5
1951
Film
Kim
Director
★ 6.5
1950
Film
Conspirator
Director
★ 5.8
1949
Film
If Winter Comes
Director
★ 6.7
1947
Film
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Victor Saville still alive?
Victor Saville passed away on May 8, 1979 at age 83.
What are the most famous roles of Victor Saville?
Victor Saville is best known for directing The Silver Chalice, Dark Journey, Storm in a Teacup.
How many movies has Victor Saville directed?
Over a 52-year career (since 1927), Victor Saville has directed or written 42 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Victor Saville's first movie?
The career of Victor Saville began with Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1927).
What is Victor Saville's most recent movie or series?
Victor Saville's most recent release is Kim Wilde - Best Of - The Singles Collection 1981-1993, which premiered on April 18, 2004.
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Victor Saville
Victor Saville
1895-09-25 · Birmingham, England, UK

Victor Saville (25 September 1895, Birmingham, England – 8 May 1979, London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962.

He produced his first film, Woman to Woman, with Michael Balcon in 1923, and on the back of its success produced pictures for the veteran director Maurice Elvey, including the classic British silent Hindle Wakes (1927). His first picture as director was The Arcadians (1927). In 1929 he and Balcon worked together again on a talkie remake of Woman to Woman for Balcon's company, Gainsborough Pictures. This time Saville directed it.

From 1931, as Gainsborough Pictures and the Gaumont British Picture Corporation joined forces, Saville produced a string of comedies, musicals and dramas for Gainsborough and Gaumont-British, including the popular Jessie Matthews pictures. In 1937, he left to set up his own production company, Victor Saville Productions, and made three pictures for Alexander Korda's London Films at Denham studios.

As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood.

When the war broke out in 1939, Saville was in America and was advised to remain there. He produced pictures in support of the war effort, such as The Mortal Storm and Forever and a Day (1943) (in which he worked for the last time with his former star Jessie Matthews), and in 1945 Tonight and Every Night, based on the history of the Windmill Theatre in London.

After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he was interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. He produced two final films in the 1960s, The Greengage Summer (1961), adapted from the novel of the same name, and Mix Me a Person (1962).

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