Carol Reed

@T V, Family and Facts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sir Carol Reed was a British film director who won two ‘Academy Awards’ for Best Director British Film & Theater Personalities Directors T V & Movie Producers Capricorn Celebrities Sir Carol Reed was a British film director who won two ‘Academy Awards’ for Best Director for his films. He started out as a stage actor and then graduated to a screen actor. After acting on the screen for some time he turned to directing films and made some very impressive films during his career. He was especially famous for making thrillers in which he proved to be a master for creating levels of suspense that were simply electric. Though he was an unassuming man diametrically opposite to the character of a director strutting about with a bull-horn in his hand, he was able to make the films reach a high level of suspense which sometimes made the audience breathless. His reputation was overshadowed by great directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and others but nevertheless he made some very remarkable films that can be easily compared to the ones produced by the great masters of suspense. He was the first British film director to receive a knighthood specifically for his direction of British films and documentaries.

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Birthday: December 30, 1906 Died on: April 25, 1976 Nationality: British Famous: Film Director, Movie Producers, T V, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors, T V & Movie Producers Spouses: Diana Wynyard (1943–1947), Penelope Dudley-Ward (1948–1976; his death) Known as: Sir Carol Reed Birth Place: Putney, London, England Information Detail Birthday December 30, 1906 Died on April 25, 1976 Nationality British Famous Film Director, Movie Producers, T V, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors, T V & Movie Producers Spouses Diana Wynyard (1943–1947), Penelope Dudley-Ward (1948–1976; his death) Known as Sir Carol Reed Birth Place Putney, London, England Gender Male Father Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Mother Beatrice Mae Pinney Sun Sign Capricorn Born in Putney, London, England Famous as Film Director Died at Age 69

Putney, London, England

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He married Diana Wynward on February 3, 1943 and divorced her in 1947 without having any children. Unsplash Personal Life

On January 24, 1948 he married Penelope Dudley-Ward who remained with him till his death. They had a son named Max from the marriage. He was the step-father of Ward’s daughter named Tracy. Unsplash Personal Life

He suffered from increasing deafness in his later years which prevented him from directing films. Unsplash Personal Life

Carol Reed was born in Putney, London, England, on December 30, 1906. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His father, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was a hugely successful British stage actor and the founder of the ‘Royal School of Dramatic Arts’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Carol Reed was one of the six children born out of wedlock of Beerhohm Tree and his mistress Beatrice Mae Pinney. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He grew up in a well mannered, middle-class atmosphere in a second household maintained separately by his father. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He did his schooling at the ‘King’s School’ in Canterbury but was an average student. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Carol Reed came back to England six months later and in 1924, at the age of 18, took up acting and started playing bit parts on the stage with a company run by Dame Sybil Thorndike. Unsplash Career

He met writer Edgar Wallace time who made him a stage manager for his plays which were adaptations of his thrillers. Unsplash Career

In 1927 Edgar Wallace became the chairman of new ‘British Lion Film Corporation’ and he made Reed his personal assistant. Reed supervised Wallace’s plays during the day and acted in plays during the night. Unsplash Career

When Wallace passed away in 1932, Reed moved to films from the stage and joined the ‘Ealing Studios’. He was appointed to act as a dialogue coach for ‘Associated Talking Pictures’ under Basil Dean. Unsplash Career

From a dialogue coach he became an associate director and then a director and co-directed many films. Unsplash Career

In 1945 Carol Reed won his first Oscar for the war documentary ‘The True Glory’ for ‘Distinctive Achievement in Documentary Production’. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

In 1949 he was nominated for an ‘Academy Award’ for Best Director for the film ‘The Third Man’ which also won the first prize at the ‘Cannes Film Festival’. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

He received his knighthood in 1952 for the highly successful films that he made during the 1940s. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

In 1960 he received an ‘Academy Award’ for Best Director for the film ‘Oliver!’ Unsplash Awards & Achievements

Information	Detail
Birthday	December 30, 1906
Died on	April 25, 1976
Nationality	British
Famous	Film Director, Movie Producers, T V, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors, T V & Movie Producers
Spouses	Diana Wynyard (1943–1947), Penelope Dudley-Ward (1948–1976; his death)
Known as	Sir Carol Reed
Birth Place	Putney, London, England
Gender	Male
Father	Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Mother	Beatrice Mae Pinney
Sun Sign	Capricorn
Born in	Putney, London, England
Famous as	Film Director
Died at Age	69

Carol Reed

British

Dec 30, 1906

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Putney, London, England