English producer, former editor at Gaumont-British from 1934, subsequently with Korda at London Films. He was the son of a clergyman, educated at St John's College, Cambridge. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Artillery, but was eventually seconded to head No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU). In this capacity, he went on to photograph the horrors of the newly liberated concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Between 1949 and 1966, he worked as an independent producer for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood, afterwards reinventing himself as an English teacher at Uxbridge Technical College.