Norman Spencer, who worked with director David Lean on films including 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Blithe Spirit,' has died.
Norman Spencer, the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who regularly collaborated with director David Lean in the 1940s and ’50s, has died. He was 110. The “Vanishing Point” producer died Aug. 16 in Wimbledon three days after his birthday, the European Supercentenarian Organisation reported. Spencer worked with Lean on films including “Blithe Spirit,” “Great Expectations,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Lawrence of Arabia.
“We took a shine to each other — we were both mad about film and started going to the pictures together with our wives,” Spencer said in a 1999 interview for the British Entertainment History Project. “We started making films together,” he added, and “when we’d finished one, we’d always want to make another right away. We’d haunt bookshops, and he’d say, ‘Within nine feet of us is a wonderful idea for a film.
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