The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April...
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financed by J. Arthur Rank and The Rank Organisation Rock-a-Doodle (1991, UK distribution only) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The Stupids (1996) 8 Heads...
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Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22/23 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was an English industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation. Rank was...
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picture industry until 2006, and continues to use the Gongman logo originally used by the Rank Organisation's film distribution subsidiary General Film Distributors...
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50% Rank Organisation, but this changed after a few years to a 60/40 split. Later, Xerox bought a further share making the split 80/20, and in the late...
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Patrick McGoohan (category Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom)
stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with the Rank Organisation. They gave him mostly villainous parts in various movies: High Tide...
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Gongman (category Cinema of the United Kingdom)
The Gongman (also known as the "man-with-the-gong") is a company trademark for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. It was used as the introduction to all...
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Top Rank Suite was the name given to a chain of nightclubs in the United Kingdom owned by the Rank Organisation. They were sometimes known as Top Rank Ballrooms...
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Norman Wisdom (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
with a Dream released in the same year. Wisdom made a series of low-budget star-vehicle comedies for the Rank Organisation, beginning with Trouble in...
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Earl St. John (section Rank Organisation)
production for The Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios from 1950 to 1964, and was credited as executive producer on 131 films. He was known as the "Earl of...
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Pinewood Studios (redirect from Enter The Pitch)
J. Arthur Rank (by then Lord Rank) retired as chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had begun to move the Rank Organisation away from...
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adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Charlton Heston, and made by the Rank Organisation. Heston and...
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Diana Dors (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
with the local release of The Shop at Sly Corner. At the age of 15, Dors signed a contract with the Rank Organisation, and joined J. Arthur Rank's "Charm...
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in police organisations. The rank system defines authority and responsibility in a police organisation, and affects the culture within the police force...
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Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), and the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced...
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Dirk Bogarde (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Camden)
Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob...
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Joan Collins (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
She signed to The Rank Organisation at the age of 17 and had small roles in the British films Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) and The Woman's Angle (1952)...
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Maureen Swanson (section Rank Organisation)
Are Orders (1955). Swanson was signed to a long-term contract by the Rank Organisation, who put her in support roles in A Town Like Alice (1956) and Jacqueline...
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and Beau Bridges. The film was produced, written and directed by David Wickes. It was the last film to be made by the Rank Organisation. Nick Freeman (David...
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Anne Heywood (category British expatriate actresses in the United States)
Dramatic Art. She had a small part in the comedy Find the Lady (1956). Heywood was signed to the Rank Organisation, who changed her name to Anne Heywood...
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Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v The Rank Organisation Ltd. [1985] BCLC 11 is a UK company law case dealing with "oppression" (or unfair prejudice)...
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Odeon Cinemas (category Cinema chains in the United Kingdom)
of the Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early...
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loosely based on the 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham. The film was released in the UK by the Rank Organisation and in the US by Allied Artists...
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Belinda Lee (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
profile for the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts: "of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious...
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Sydney Box for the Rank Organisation. After an argument with her husband, Lucy Church storms out of her house and goes to see a film at the local cinema...
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released by the British distribution company General Film Distributors. GFD was part of the Rank Organisation, and handled films produced by the various companies...
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Stewart Granger (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
Granger's hair. The disappointment added to his dissatisfaction with the Rank Organisation, and his thoughts turned to Hollywood. According to Alan Wood, historian...
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Jane Barrett (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
she signed a six-year contract with the Rank Organisation. Barrett married a Danish artist, Hans Helveg, in 1947. The Captive Heart (1946) Colonel Bogey...
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Betty Box (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
my brother said, and he asked me to work for him. He was running an organisation that made training and recruitment films. I went along as a general dogsbody...
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exacerbated by the expense of Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). Also, according to Powell, the Rank Organisation did not understand the artistic merits of the film,...
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