Sydney Box

For the British trade unionist, see Sidney Box.

Frank Sydney Box
Born	(1907-04-29)29 April 1907 Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
Died	25 May 1983(1983-05-25) (aged 76) Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation(s)	Writer, screenwriter
Years active	1935–1967
Spouses	Muriel Box (1935–1969), Sylvia Knowles

Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.

He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.

Sydney and Muriel divorced in 1969.

Gainsborough Studios

The couple were then hired by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio's major successes for several years, and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results. Box made 36 films at Gainsborough, which was merged into the Rank Organization in 1949. In 1951 he founded his own production company London Independent Producers with William MacQuitty.

Box ended his cinema career in 1958 to concentrate on working in television. He was part of a consortium that launched Tyne Tees Television in 1959.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter and producer

• 29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
• The Seventh Veil (1945)
• The Years Between (1946)
• A Girl in a Million (1946)
• The Happy Family (1952)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Too Young to Love (1959)

Producer

• Country Town (1943)
• Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
• The Brothers (1947)
• The Happy Family (1952)
• The Beachcomber (1954)
• Eyewitness (1956)
• The Truth About Women (1957)
• Subway in the Sky (1959)

Films as Head of Gainsborough

• The Man Within (1947)
• The Brothers (1947)
• Dear Murderer (1947)
• The Upturned Glass (1947)
• Holiday Camp (1947)
• Jassy (1947)
• When the Bough Breaks (1947)
• Easy Money (1948)
• Snowbound (1948)
• Miranda (1948)
• Broken Journey (1948)
• Good-Time Girl (1948)
• The Calendar (1948)
• My Brother's Keeper (1948)
• The Blind Goddess (1948)
• Quartet (1948)
• Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
• Portrait from Life (1948)
• Vote for Huggett (1949)
• The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
• It's Not Cricket (1949)
• A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
• The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
• Marry Me! (1949)
• Christopher Columbus (1949)
• Helter Skelter (1949)
• Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
• The Lost People (1949)
• Diamond City (1949)
• Boys in Brown (1949)
• Traveller's Joy (1949)
• The Astonished Heart (1950)
• So Long at the Fair (1950)
• Trio (1950)

External links

• Sydney Box at IMDb