Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger (1902 to 1988) was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director and producer, born Imre József Pressburger in Miskolc in the Kingdom of Hungary. After working as a journalist and screenwriter for UFA in Berlin he fled the Nazis to Paris and then, in 1935, to Britain, where Alexander Korda employed him and where he met the director Michael Powell. Their partnership, the Archers, produced some of the most acclaimed British films of the 1940s, with Pressburger writing most of the original stories and doing much of a producer's work. He won an Academy Award for the original story of 49th Parallel, became a British citizen in 1946, wrote two novels, and was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 1981.