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    • Charles Frend

    English film director (1909–1977)

    Charles Herbert Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977, London)[1] was an English film director and editor, best known for his films produced at Ealing Studios. He began directing in the early 1940s and is known for such films as Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and The Cruel Sea (1953).[2]

    Biography

    Frend was born in Pulborough, Sussex, on 21 November 1909 to Edward Charles and Bertha Maud Frend.[1] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and at Oxford University, where he was the film critic of The Isis Magazine.[1][3]

    Editor

    He began his career in the film industry at British International Pictures in 1931. He worked as an editor on Arms and the Man (1932)

    Frend moved to Gaumont British Pictures, where he worked under producer Michael Balcon. He edited Alfred Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934), then My Song