Ray Selfe

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Ray Selfe
Born13 May 1932
Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Died3 September 2001(2001-09-03) (aged 69) [1]
United Kingdom
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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 McGillivray, David (17 September 2001). "Ray Selfe". The Guardian .
  2. ↑ "Ray Selfe". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.


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