Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an English film director and producer, born on 30 December 1906 in Putney, London, who died in London on 25 April 1976. He became one of the foremost British filmmakers of the post-World War II era, rising to prominence in the late 1940s with the acclaimed thrillers Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), the last of which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. His later work ranged across genres, including Our Man in Havana (1959) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), and culminated in the musical Oliver! (1968), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director. He was knighted in 1952, the second British film director to receive that honor, and Odd Man Out and The Fallen Idol each won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.