George King(1899-1966)
- Director
- Producer
- Actor
Producer/director George King began his career in the British film
industry in the 1920s as an agent. He eventually moved into writing,
then turned to producing and directing, mostly in the field known as
"quota quickies" (films made to comply with the British government's
requirement that a certain percentage of films shown in British
theaters had to be produced in Britain). He served in those positions
on several of flamboyant actor
Tod Slaughter's melodramas, notably
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
and
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936).
After a few more of Slaughter's popular but cheaply made films, King
graduated to more "upscale" vehicles with bigger budgets and more
respectable subjects, such as
Tomorrow We Live (1942), which
was a critical and commercial success. After the war, King drastically
reduced his workload, directing only three more films before retiring.
