Edgar Anstey
Edgar Anstey, 1907-1987
Lived at: 6 Hurst Close - address at death
Profession: Pioneering Documentary Filmmaker
About his life:
- Educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and Birkbeck College
- Spent time as a civil servant
- Joined The Empire Marketing Board’s film unit, under the direction of John Grierson
- Joined the British Transport film unit in 1949
- Nominated for an Oscar in 1965 for the documentary film Snow
- Governor of British Film Institute 1965-75.
- OBE 1969
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Notable films include
- 'Housing Problems', 1935;
- ‘Enough to Eat?’, 1936;
- 'Journey into Spring', 1957;
- 'Terminus', 1961;
- 'Wild Wings’, 1965.