Winston churchill biography movie stars

January 4, 2020

Review by DAVID FREEMAN

Churchill and the Movie Mogul, a documentary film by John Fleet, January Pictures, 2019, 60 minutes.

Winston Churchill loved movies, and for about fifty years now movies have loved Winston Churchill. He has been portrayed by many of the cinema’s biggest stars on both film and television. John Lithgow’ portrayal in season one of The Crown proved so popular that he has now been brought back by popular demand to reprise the role in the first episode of season three even though this has required some ahistorical contrivance to accomplish.

How appropriate then that a British filmmaker has finally made a documentary about the entirely true story of Churchill’s friendship with the founder of the British film industry! Alexander Korda was a Hungarian immigrant who fled the persecution of the Jewish people in his homeland during the 1920s. He embraced his adopted nation with panache naming his company London Films and using Big B

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January 20, 2018

Visitors to Chartwell and Chequers during Winston Churchill’s time were often treated to film screenings hosted bygd one of the premier cinephiles of his era.  Whether in or out of power, Churchill turned to movies for entertainment, relaxation, and inspiration.  “He loved the films, any film,” recalled one of his private secretaries. “After it, then tears down his face, and wiping them away, “The best film I’ve ever seen.”¹

Churchill knew something about the film industry. Not long after the end of his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer following the defeat of the Conservative government in 1929, Churchill found himself in Hollywood, where he visited Charlie Chaplin and was filmed with the diminutive actor at his studio. Churchill also pursued the very modern practice of writing screenplays for movies that were never made, a lucrative sideline that helped keep at bay the ever-present creditors that so hemsökt his middle years. Perhaps hi

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Their finest hour: Which actor portrayed the most convincing Churchill?

Statesman, war hero, historian, painter, Nobel Prize-winning author, Home sekreterare, Britain's most famous Prime Minister, icon.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was many things in his lifetime. He was beloved bygd almost all in Britain, but is still a controversial political figure to some. He lived the lives of a hundred men. So it's little wonder that so many screenwriters have seen fit to bring the recognisable and irrepressible figure of Churchill to both the small and big screens over the decades.

Which, from the many fine thespians that have played the man, really captured his immense presence? And who just donned a fat suit, sparked up a Cuban, and flicked the famous 'Victory' sign?

Join us as we take a trip down entertainment’s memory lane to work out which, of all the many actors to play Churchill, was the most convincing.

Gary Oldman - The Darkest Hour (2017)

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