Michael Stanley-Evans
Michael Melville Stanley-Evans (6 February 1919 – December 2004) was a British film executive and soldier who worked for many years at the Rank Organisation.[1]
Biography
[edit]Stanley-Evans joined the Queen's Own Hussars in 1940 and had a distinguished war service during World War Two, being awarded the Military Cross for an action in Burma.[2][3]
On peace time, he joined the Rank Organisation and became editor of their film trailers. In 1956 he became deputy executive producer of Rank under Earl St John, and from 1961 served on the boards of Rank Organisation Film Productions and Rank Productions. He resigned in 1964.[4][5]
Stanley-Evans left Rank to work for Richard Attenborough as a producer. He worked on such films as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Gandhi (1982). Attenborough called their relationships "a friendship and a business relationship which proved to be of inestimable value to me."[6]
Stanley-Evans retired to Spain and died in 2004.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Michael Stanley-Evans". The Daily Telegraph. 30 December 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2025. (subscription required)
- ^ "Obituary: Michael Stanley-Evans". The Museum of the Queen's Royal Hussars. 23 June 2022.
- ^ "Single handedly rout of the Japanese". The Surrey Advertiser, County Times. 5 September 1942. p. 5.
- ^ "Stanley-Evans resigns". Kinematograph Weekly. 7 May 1964. p. 88.
- ^ "Variety". Variety. 27 December 1961. p. 4.
- ^ Attenborough, Richard (1982). In search of Gandhi. p. 141.
- ^ "Gandhi producer dies in Soller". Majorca Daily Bulletin. 15 October 2004.