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Jack Isaac Clayton [1] (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.
Jack Clayton was born on 1 March 1921 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for The Innocents (1961), Our Mother's House (1967) and The Great Gatsby (1974).
Oct 31, 2014 · Earlier this month, Criterion released a gorgeous new edition of Jack Clayton’s The Innocents, a 1961 adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw that to this day still ranks among the...
Feb 28, 1995 · Jack Clayton was by this time very much a man of the industry, and nothing in his immediate post-war credits indicated that he would become one of Britain's finest and most sensitive film...
Jack Clayton was born on 1 March 1921 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for The Innocents (1961), Our Mother's House (1967) and The Great Gatsby (1974). He was married to Haya Harareet, Katherine Kath and Christine Norden.
A director of remarkable talent, Clayton 's uncompromising independence led not just to a relatively small output - with only eight feature films completed in his entire career - but also to his often being out of step with what the market, and sometimes also the critics, wanted.
Apr 12, 2017 · British director Jack Clayton elicited landmark performances from a host of great ladies of the cinema, including Maggie Smith, Deborah Kerr, and Anne Bancroft.
In a career spanning most of the 20th century, Jack Clayton (1921-1995) straddled classical filmmaking, the British New Wave and the final overripe years of the Hollywood studio system, finding success in each of these worlds but never a true home.
Mar 1, 1995 · Jack Clayton, a director who began an era of social realism in British film with the 1958 movie "Room at the Top," died on Saturday at a hospital in Slough, 15 miles...
Mar 6, 1995 · Jack Clayton, director of such classic ’60s British dramas as “Room at the Top” and “The Pumpkin Eater,” died Feb 25 at a hospital in Slough, Berkshire, England, following a short illness. He...
