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Terence Young
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20 June 1915 - 7 September 1994
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English film director Terence Young was born on June 20, 1915 in Shanghai, China. At the age of 21, he began working as a screenwriter, preferring comedy. During World War II, he served in the British Army and was a paratrooper. During the battles for the Dutch city, Arnhem Young was wounded; in the hospital he met a nurse Audrey Henstra - who would eventually become famous as Audrey Hepburn. In 1945, the documentary Arnhem's People was released, co-directed by Young. And although it was reported
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English film director Terence Young was born on June 20, 1915 in Shanghai, China. At the age of 21, he began working as a screenwriter, preferring comedy. During World War II, he served in the British Army and was a paratrooper. During the battles for the Dutch city, Arnhem Young was wounded; in the hospital he met a nurse Audrey Henstra - who would eventually become famous as Audrey Hepburn. In 1945, the documentary Arnhem's People was released, co-directed by Young. And although it was reported that Terence Young was scheduled by Laurence Olivier as the director of “Henry V”, it was not until 1948 that he got the opportunity to make his debut as a director of a feature film, shooting his first film “The Corridor of Mirrors”. Young quickly gained a reputation as a master of thrillers, although he occasionally worked in other genres. Widely known Terence Young brought released in 1962 film “Doctor No” – the first of “bond”, the success of which was repeated by the film “From Russia with love” (1963). Due to disagreements with the producers who refused the director a share of the rental profit of the next James Bond film, Young did not take part in the production of “Golden finger”, but the next film, “Ball lightning” (1965), which became one of the highest-grossing English film projects of those years, he again shot. Two years later, the hit film “Wait until dark” (1967), in which the main role was played by Audrey Hepburn. Since that time, Terence Young’s career gradually began to decline, a number of his films did not have audience success, although among the films he put were “Red Sun” (1971), “Meyerling” (1968), “Paper Valachi” (“Cosa Nostra”, 1972), “Man-Mystery” (1984). In the last years of his life, the director worked on the six-hour documentary Muammar Gaddafi commissioned by the Libyan leader, but this picture was not shown outside Libya. Terence Young died in Cannes, on the Cote d'Azur, on September 7, 1994, of a heart attack.
Other films of Terence Young: "One Night with You" (1948), "The Hater" (1949), "They Were Inseparable" (1950), "Valley of Eagles" (1951), "Parachutist" (1953), "This Lady" (1955), "Storm on the Nile" (1956), "Safari" (1956), "Tank Corps" (other name - "No Time to Die" (1967), "Chilov" (1967), "Towards" (1967), "Towards" (1967), "Chorn" (1974), "Towards" (1967), "), "Towards" (1967), "Towards" (1975), "Towards" (1975), "), "Towards" (1975), "Towards" "Towards" (1975), "Towards" (1974), "Towards" "Towards" (1975), "Towards" (1975), "Towards", "Towards" (1975), "Towards"