Ray Selfe | |
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Born | 13 May 1932 |
Died | 3 September 2001 69) [1] United Kingdom | (aged
Occupation(s) | Film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor, film editor |
Ray Selfe was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and movie theatre owner. [1] [2]
Selfe was born into a working-class family in Croydon, Surrey and at the age of ten found a passion for film. [1] Selfe was later expelled from Pitman's College at the age of fourteen and became a projectionist at a local movie theatre and ran a mobile cinema, taking film shows to youth clubs. [1] In 1950, he had a brief national service in the RAF and was later discharged on medical grounds. [1]
As a filmmaker, Selfe later went on to work on such films as Four Dimensions of Greta (1972), White Cargo (1973), Emmanuelle in Soho (1981) and Don't Open till Christmas (1984). [1]
During Selfe's later years, he gained respect within the industry as a private film archive curator. [1]
Selfe died of a heart attack at age 69. [1]
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