Victor Saville
Biography
Victor Saville (25 September 1895, Birmingham, England – 8 May 1979, London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962.
He produced his first film, Woman to Woman, with Michael Balcon in 1923, and on the back of its success produced pictures for the veteran director Maurice Elvey, including the classic British silent Hindle Wakes (1927). His first picture as director was The Arcadians (1927). In 1929 he and Balcon worked together again on a talkie remake of Woman to Woman for Balcon's company, Gainsborough Pictures. This time Saville directed it.
From 1931, as Gainsborough Pictures and the Gaumont British Picture Corporation joined forces, Saville produced a string of comedies, musicals and dramas for Gainsborough and Gaumont-British, including the popular Jessie Matthews pictures. In 1937, he left to set up his own production company, Victor Saville Productions, and made three pictures for Alexander Korda's London Films at Denham studios.
As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood.
When the war broke out in 1939, Saville was in America and was advised to remain there. He produced pictures in support of the war effort, such as The Mortal Storm and Forever and a Day (1943) (in which he worked for the last time with his former star Jessie Matthews), and in 1945 Tonight and Every Night, based on the history of the Windmill Theatre in London.
After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he was interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. He produced two final films in the 1960s, The Greengage Summer (1961), adapted from the novel of the same name, and Mix Me a Person (1962).
Directing (42 movies)

The Long Wait
1954

Tonight and Every Night
1945

Forever and a Day
1943

The Silver Chalice
1954

Friday the Thirteenth
1933

Dark Journey
1937

Conspirator
1949

Storm in a Teacup
1937

The Green Years
1946

It's Love Again
1936

The Good Companions
1933

South Riding
1938

Green Dolphin Street
1947

Kim
1950

If Winter Comes
1947

Evergreen
1934

Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951

First a Girl
1935

Woman to Woman
1929

24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952

I Was a Spy
1933

The Dictator
1935

Me and Marlborough
1935

Desire Me
1947

A Warm Corner
1930

Evensong
1934

The Faithful Heart
1932

Armistice
1929
Me and the Boys
1929

The Iron Duke
1934

Hindle Wakes
1931

The W Plan
1930

The Earl of Chicago
1940

Sunshine Susie
1931

Love on Wheels
1932

Michael and Mary
1931

The Sport of Kings
1931

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The Arcadians
1927

Tesha
1928

Kitty
1929

My Gun Is Quick
1957