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Alexander Korda
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(adopted name of Alexander Kellner, 1893–1956, kt 1942) Hungarian-born film producer who settled in England in 1931. In 1932 he formed London Film Productions, with Big Ben as its trademark, which established its reputation with Charles *Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, and scored many other successes such as The *Scarlet Pimpernel, *Things to Come and The Four Feathers (1939). After the war, from new studios at Shepperton, there came The *Third Man and Laurence Olivier in *Richard III.
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