Sir John Woolf (15 March 1913, London – 28 June 1999, London) and his brother James Woolf (2 March 1920, London – 30 May 1966, Beverly Hills, California)...
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Room at the Top (1959 film) (category Films based on works by John Braine)
and produced by John and James Woolf. The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, and Hermione Baddeley...
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John Woolf may refer to: John Woolf (producer), British film producer, with his brother James John Elgin Woolf, American architect John William Woolf...
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Moulin Rouge (1952 film) (category Films directed by John Huston)
produced by John and James Woolf. The film follows artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 19th-century Paris's bohemian subculture in and around the Moulin...
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narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen...
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The African Queen (film) (category Films with screenplays by James Agee)
directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel...
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Academy Award for Best Picture (redirect from List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Picture)
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in...
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Laurence Harvey (section Early life and career)
run by brothers John and James Woolf, who signed Harvey to a long-term contract. James Woolf in particular was a big admirer of Harvey and played an important...
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Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George...
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Corporation and formed General Film Distributors. He brought J. Arthur Rank into the film industry. He was the father of producers John and James Woolf, and of...
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The L-Shaped Room (category Films scored by John Barry (composer))
Caron) Nominee, Best Picture – BAFTA (Richard Attenborough, Jack Rix, John and James Woolf) Nominee, Best Picture from Any Source – BAFTA Selected, Top Ten...
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for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given...
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Stephen Dillane (redirect from Stephen John Dillane)
Stephen John Dillane (/dɪˈleɪn/; born 27 March 1957) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis...
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I Am a Camera (film) (category British black-and-white films)
producers John and James Woolf began exploring the idea of adapting Van Druten's play for the screen. In April 1954, director Henry Cornelius and the Woolfs sent...
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priest. His brother is the historian William Dalrymple and he is a cousin of Virginia Woolf. "John James Hamilton-Dalrymple". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved...
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Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning...
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Max Richter (redirect from Three Worlds – Music from Woolf Works)
Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves). The album features classical and electronic sound as well as an original voice recording of Woolf herself...
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they had played in the 1945 play No Room at the Inn and its 1948 film version. John and James Woolf of Romulus Films had first enquired about the property...
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Outstanding British Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented at the British Academy Film Awards. The award was...
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Julia Stephen (section Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury)
English Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of...
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Quentin Bell (category James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients)
and to book-writing. Bell's biography of his famous aunt, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the James Tait...
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biographer Leonard Woolf, essayist and non-fiction writer Virginia Woolf, fiction writer and essayist In the 1960s, Leonard Woolf additionally listed...
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Dame Catherine Fiona Woolf, DBE, DStJ, DL (née Swain; born 11 May 1948) is a British corporate lawyer. She served as the Lord Mayor of London (2013–14)...
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Dukakis–Bentsen ticket. With the 1988 campaign over, John began work with an attorney in Boston named Bob Woolf who had built a significant international practice...
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Bloomsbury Group (category British artist groups and collectives)
intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster...
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King Rat (film) (category Films based on works by James Clavell)
home. Bryan Forbes was offered the job of writing the script and directing by James Woolf. Forbes called Clavell's novel "stunning" but said Faced with...
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The Voyage Out (category Novels by Virginia Woolf)
novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth. Woolf began work on The Voyage Out by 1910 (perhaps as early as 1907) and had finished an early...
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Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982), abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990...
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ride and risk crippling himself for life. At the urging of Woolf and Marcela, Howard relents. Pollard, using a self-made leg brace, finds himself and Seabiscuit...
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Tracy Letts (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013). As a playwright, Letts is known for having written for the Steppenwolf Theatre, Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre. His...
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