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243:. He worked his way up to becoming head of Rank's trailer department as well as writing films. Thomas later said making trailers was "enormously useful" because he "learned a lot of the technique of how the varying directors whose pictures I had worked on operated. Also, it teaches one a great deal of discipline about brevity in story telling". 375:
and led to a number of sequels, all of which would be directed by Thomas. Thomas later reflected, "In a way it doesn't really do your career any good to have such a big success early on... you can easily get thrown off course because you get offered all sorts of things which you don't really want to
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Enormously exciting and invigorating. We knew that we were not always doing very creative work, but that there was a chance to gain experience and that this wasn't going to last... You were quite likely to finish shooting on Friday, plan to go into the cutting rooms on Monday to look over your stuff
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in 1932 during his summer vacation while at college. Following graduation, instead of becoming a lawyer he decided to enter the film industry, and became an apprentice at Shepperton Studios, working as a clapper boy and then in the editing room, the sound department and art department. From 1932 to
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I'm a natural pessimist and he's a natural optimist. I'm always in the depths of despair and he is always full of joy. Good teams are often made of opposites... We (she and Ralph Thomas) do have awful, boring fights. Directing a film is not an easy job. For any man to stay sweet and gentle through
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A sort of journeyman picture maker and I was generally happy to make anything I felt to be halfway respectable. So my volume of work was enormous; I had a lot of energy and made all kinds of pictures. If you make all kinds, you score a hit sometimes. I made thrillers, comedies, love stories, war
444:(1957), the second most popular movie at the British box office in its year of release. This success encouraged Rank to finance Thomas and Box for a series of expensive adventure films starring Dirk Bogarde shot on location, aimed at the international market: 379:
However, the films gave Thomas and Box a great deal of control. Thomas says whenever they made a "doctor" film, Rank would finance another movie they wanted "as long as the thing we wanted to make had a reasonable budget and was not too idiotic."
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and get your cut ready, then go for a drink, and you'd be given another script and be told, 'The sets are standing and you start on Monday – this is the cast!' It wasn't necessarily good and we didn't get a lot of money, but it was regular.
572:(1963). This starred Dirk Bogarde, who had been encouraged to reprise his role as Simon Sparrow one more time. In return, Rank agreed to finance Thomas and Bogarde in two more expensive films: the 680:
The downturn in production in the British film industry of the 1970s affected Thomas' ability to raise finance for his films and he began to work increasingly in television. His last feature was
462:(also 1958). None of these achieved the financial success of the "Doctor" movies, although the last two in particular are regarded among Thomas' finest works. Also on a large scale was 706:
stories, one or two adventure things. Some filmmakers have a lot of talent and genius for it; others simply have a lot of energy and I'm afraid I belong in the latter category!
40: 1860: 435:. The film was a financial success but production was an unhappy experience for Thomas. It was the only time he worked with major Hollywood stars. 395:(also 1955). Both these movies would be among the most successful films at the British box office in 1955. He followed them with the less popular 1850: 1835: 1845: 192:". He discovered he loved editing the most and worked predominantly as an editor for the next few years, including a period working alongside 229:
Thomas left the army in 1945 and re-entered the film industry, although he could only gain work as an assistant editor. He assisted editing
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in 1970. It made money but Thomas and Box were getting sick of the series and sold the franchise to television. They had a big hit
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While assembling trailers, Thomas met Sydney Box's sister Betty, and the two of them struck up a rapport. In 1949 it was announced
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stories. This never happened. However, when Thomas left Sydney Box to go under contract with the Rank Organisation to make
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Neither of the latter two were particularly popular. Thomas returned to more sure-fire material with a sixth "Doctor",
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and Thomas had formed Feature Film Facilities, to make six or seven films, starting with an adaptation of several
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None of these were particularly popular at the box office so Thomas returned to "doctor" films with
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was a flop, but was highly acclaimed critically – perhaps the most admired of all Thomas' movies.
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classic, which was a box-office success. Thomas returned to comedy with the smaller budgeted
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do and shouldn't do. You become easily flattered because you like this first taste of fame."
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for over a year. He returned to editing before joining the army in 1939.
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Thomas and Box wanted to make two riskier films, a story about nuns,
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Untitled film about British policewomen, a female version of
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in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer
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Box defined their relationship in a 1973 interview:
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Thomas did some uncredited work on 1861:Military personnel from Kingston upon Hull 1464: 1450: 1272:– via National Library of Australia. 1244:– via National Library of Australia. 1207:– via National Library of Australia. 689:He is commemorated with a green plaque on 414:and featuring location filming in Europe. 246: 38: 19:For other people named Ralph Thomas, see 1329:The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912–1954) 410:thriller concerning car racing starring 389:(1955), before doing a second "Doctor", 1124:, the story of Byron and Shelley (1974) 367:They had a massive box office hit with 316:eight weeks of purgatory is impossible. 1851:British Army personnel of World War II 1836:Film producers from Kingston upon Hull 1813: 360: 188:1934, Thomas worked predominantly on " 1798:A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 1445: 1037:A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 683:A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 643:Thomas shot the last "doctor" film, 438:He returned to "Doctor" series with 1856:20th-century English businesspeople 1097: 701:Thomas later described himself as: 339:Thomas then made several comedies, 56:, East Riding of Yorkshire, England 13: 1846:9th Queen's Royal Lancers officers 1311:An Autobiography of British Cinema 1169:An Autobiography of British Cinema 224: 163:. 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Index

Ralph Thomas (disambiguation)

Hull
Jeremy Thomas
Gerald Thomas
MC
Doctor
Gerald Thomas
Carry On...
Academy Award
Jeremy Thomas
James Robertson Justice
Betty E. Box
Peter Rogers
Victor Saville
Hull
clapper boy
Shepperton Studios
quota quickies
David Lean
Bristol Evening Post
Second World War
9th Lancers
Military Cross
Battle of El Alamein
Odd Man Out
film trailers
Rank Organisation
Sydney Box
Miranda

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