A lifetime in movies

 

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Timothy Burrill is an Oscar-nominated producer and film executive whose career spans 70 years!

 

Starting out as a documentary filmmaker he soon progressed to a career in feature production. Perhaps most notably, Timothy produced many of Roman Polanski’s films including Macbeth (1971), Tess (1979) - for which he was Oscar nominated, Bitter Moon (1992), The Pianist (2002), Swimming Pool (2003), Oliver Twist (2005), La Vie En Rose (2007), The Ghostwriter (2010), Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2011), and Weekend of a Champion (2013).

 

Among his earlier credits as an assistant director are the superb Stanley Baker-starring The Criminal (1960), Christopher Lee-starrer The Hands of Orlac (1960) and Steve McQueen’s The War Lover (1962).

 

As a production manager he worked on such films as Superman (1978), with Richard Attenborough on A Severed Head (1971), with stars Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris on The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Peter O'Toole in Lord Jim (1965), Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Alain Delon, Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, and Jeanne Moreau in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), and even Charlie Drake in The Cracksman (1963) after going On the Fiddle (1961) with Sean Connery.

 

His other producer credits include Laurence Olivier’s The Three Sisters (1970), Supergirl (1984), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Two Brothers (2004), French Spies (2004), the Daniel Craig-starring Renaissance (2006) amongst others. Curiously, he has worked with 4 James Bond actors (on non-Bond projects) – Craig, Brosnan, Moore and Connery.

 

In the late 1970s Timothy was appointed Managing Director of Allied Stars, the company responsible for financing Breaking Glass (1980) with Hazel O’Connor, and the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire (1981).

 

Timothy was also a key figure in one of the three UK film franchises funded by the National Lottery in 1997. As the Managing Director of Pathé Productions in London, he helped manage the producer-led mini-studio with a share of £92 million in funding and delivered 15 films by late 2002. Pathé was widely considered the most stable and successful of the three original lottery franchises and the only franchise with fully integrated in-house development, production, and distribution.

 

Some of Pathé's franchise-backed films included the Oscar-winning An Ideal Husband (1999), Ratcatcher (1999), The Hole (2001) and later projects like Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Magic Roundabout.

 

With a wealth of experience involving some of the biggest names both in front and behind the camera, plus being a past Chairman of BAFTA and Governor of the National Film School, Timothy certainly has some fascinating stories to share and wise words of advice and insight to offer.