Ronald Neame - biography

“If [David Lean] heard his best friend was dying while he was on set, I doubt if he’d take it in.  Once he’s started a film, there’s really nothing else in his life.”

Ronald Neame directed the following films:
Take My Life (1947)
Golden Salamander (1950)
The Card (1952)
The Million Pound Note (1953)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The Seventh Sin (1957)
Windom’s Way (1957)
The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
Mister Moses (1965)
A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
Gambit (1966)
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Scrooge (1970)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Odessa File (1974)
Meteor (1979)
Hopscotch (1980)
Foreign Body (1986)


Ronald Neame was photography director on the following films:
Give Her a Ring (1934)
Honours Easy (1935)
Once in a Million (1935)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
Brief Ecstasy (1937)
Catch As Catch Can (1937)
I See Ice (1938)
Murder in the Family (1938)
Penny Paradise (1938)
Who Goes Next? (1938)
Come on George! (1939)
The Four Just Men (1939)
Let George Do It! (1940)
Saloon Bar (1940)
In Which We Serve (1942)
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
This Happy Breed (1944)
Blithe Spirit (1945)


Ronald Neame contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
This Happy Breed (1944)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Great Expectations (1946)
Golden Salamander (1950)