Independent Artists was a British production company of the 1950s and 1960s. It specialised in making second features. [1]
The company was strongest from 1958-63 when Julian Wintle ran it with Leslie Parkyn out of Beaconsfield Film Studios. [2] [3]
Their films Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) and Tiger Bay (1959) were BAFTA nominated and BAFTA winning; [4] [5] while This Sporting Life (1963) was Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning. [6] [7]
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