Edward Godal

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Edward Godal
OccupationFilm director and producer
Years active1916–38

Edward Godal was a British film producer and director. During the First World War Godal ran a training school for actors. [1] He became a leading independent producer of British films after the war, becoming managing director of the small but ambitious British & Colonial, based at Walthamstow Studios from 1918 to 1924. [2] He later became involved with plans to make colour films at the newly built Elstree Studios and a proposed big-budget adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel, neither of which came to anything. [3] His producing career largely ended with the arrival of sound in 1929, and he made only one further film, in 1938.

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  1. Low p.198
  2. Low p.136
  3. Low p.198-199

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