Ronald Neame
1911–2010 · English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English filmmaker. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943) he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948), receiving two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Ronald Neame, in order
- 1944 This Happy Breed: wrote · directed by David Lean · streaming on Roku Channel, Criterion Channel, YouTube (free)
- 1945 Blithe Spirit: wrote · directed by David Lean · critics 76%, audiences 76% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Roku Channel
- 1945 Brief Encounter: wrote, produced · directed by David Lean · critics 95%, audiences 91% · streaming on HBO Max, Roku Channel, Pluto TV
- 1946 Great Expectations: wrote, produced · directed by David Lean · critics 100%, audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Roku Channel
- 1947 Take My Life: directed
- 1948 Oliver Twist: produced · directed by David Lean · critics 100%, audiences 84% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Roku Channel
- 1949 The Passionate Friends: produced · directed by David Lean · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex, Prime Video (free)
- 1950 Golden Salamander: directed · audiences 62%
- 1951 The Magic Box: produced · directed by John Boulting · audiences 76%
- 1952 The Card: directed · audiences 64% · streaming on Criterion Channel
- 1954 The Million Pound Note: directed · audiences 71% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
- 1956 The Man Who Never Was: directed · critics 88%, audiences 84%
- 1957 The Seventh Sin: directed · audiences 82%
- 1957 Windom's Way: directed
- 1958 The Horse's Mouth: directed · critics 89%, audiences 77% · streaming on Criterion Channel, Plex, Fawesome
- 1960 Tunes of Glory: directed · critics 70%, audiences 78% · streaming on Tubi
- 1962 Escape from Zahrain: directed, produced · audiences 54%
- 1963 I Could Go On Singing: directed · critics 100%, audiences 75%
- 1964 The Chalk Garden: directed · critics 71%, audiences 78%
- 1965 Mister Moses: directed
- 1966 A Man Could Get Killed: directed · audiences 50%
- 1966 Gambit: directed · critics 100%, audiences 81%
- 1968 Prudence and the Pill: directed
- 1969 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: directed · critics 81%, audiences 84%
- 1970 Scrooge: directed · critics 71%, audiences 84% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
- 1972 The Poseidon Adventure: directed · critics 82%, audiences 76%
- 1974 The Odessa File: directed · critics 71%, audiences 64% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
- 1979 Meteor: directed · critics 5%, audiences 14% · streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free), Fawesome
- 1980 Hopscotch: directed · critics 80%, audiences 78% · streaming on Roku Channel, Criterion Channel, YouTube (free)
- 1981 First Monday in October: directed · audiences 46% · streaming on Hoopla
- 1986 Foreign Body: directed · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
- 1990 The Magic Balloon: directed
- 1999 Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius: acted · directed by Ted Haimes