Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald was born on Dec 25, 1910 in Russian Empire [now Russia]. Anatole de Grunwald's big-screen debut came with Pygmalion directed by Anthony Asquith in 1938. Anatole de Grunwald is known for Libel directed by Anthony Asquith, Dirk Bogarde stars as Sir Mark Loddon and Olivia de Havilland as Lady Margaret Loddon. The upcoming new movie Anatole de Grunwald plays is The Yellow Rolls-Royce which will be released on May 13, 1965.

Anatole de Grunwald was seven years old when his father, a diplomat in the service of the Russian Czar, was forced to flee with his family to England during the Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in England, began a career as a journalist there and entered the British film industry in 1939 as a screenwriter, then a producer. He was eventually appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri De Grunwald. Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s he did venture to the US to produce a few movies, then returned to England for the remainder of his career.