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David M. Thompson | |
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| Born | David Marcus Thompson 18 July 1950 Hackney, London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, television producer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
David Marcus Thompson (born 18 July 1950 in Hackney, London) is a British film and television producer, and the editor of several books about film directors.
Thompson worked for the BBC from 1978 as a film programmer and documentary maker. [1] In 1981 he filmed Woza Albert! . He was the founding head of BBC Films. Up until 2007, BBC Films was run and funded as a private company, with its own offices in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House, while still under the full control of the BBC.
In 2007, a re-structure of the division saw it re-integrated into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision, under the control of Jane Tranter. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into Television Centre and David Thompson, previously head of BBC Films, left to start his own film production company, Origin Pictures. [2]
The films he has produced for Origin Pictures include The Awakening , An Education , and The Sense of an Ending . He has continued to executive-produce films for the BBC, including The History Boys (2006) and the remake of Brideshead Revisited (2008).
David Thompson's two-part BBC documentary on the films of Jean Renoir in 1993 led to him editing an anthology of the director's letters for Faber & Faber, Jean Renoir: Letters [1] (1994, with Lorraine LoBianco). For the same publisher, he has also edited Levinson on Levinson [1] (1992),Scorsese on Scorsese [1] (1996, with Ian Cristie), and Altman on Altman [1] (2006).
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