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Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital in Los Angeles. Neame, who never recovered after suffering a fall, was 99. In the grandiose and technically impressive (but slow-moving) disaster flick, Gene Hackman led an all-star cast through the bowels of a capsized liner.
In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. A perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic ...
Jun 18, 2010 · Poseidon Adventure director Ronald "Ronnie" Neame has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 99. The British film-maker, who died on Wednesday, never recovered after suffering from a fall ...
Ronald Neame was born in 1911, the son of film director and photographer Elwin Neame and actress Ivy Close. After his father’s death in 1923, Neame went to work at Elstree studios where he became an assistant cameraman on Blackmail (1929), the first British Talkie directed by young Alfred Hitchcock.
In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. A perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic ...
Oct 2, 1991 · Born on April 23, 1911. father, Elwin Neame, was a film director and his mother, Ivy Close, was a film star. During the 1920s, he started working at Elstree Studios. His first jobs was assistant cameraman for Alfred Hitchcock on Blackmail (1929). .He became a cinematographer during the 1930s.
Ronald Neame was born in London on 23 April 1911, the son of the celebrated portrait photographer and director Elwin Neame and the actress Ivy Close. Financial problems caused by his father's death in 1923 forced Neame to leave public school and he gained employment at British International Pictures ' newly opened Elstree Studios.
