Joseph Janni
Italian-born British film producer (1916–1994)
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Joseph Janni (21 May 1916 – 29 May 1994) was a Jewish Italian-British film producer best known for his work with John Schlesinger.[1] He was born in Milan, Italy and became interested in filmmaking while at university.
Joseph Janni | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 May 1916 |
| Died | 29 May 1994 (aged 78) |
| Education | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia |
| Spouse |
Stella Griffiths (m. 1949) |
He emigrated to England in 1939, and once Italy declared war, he was briefly interned in Metropole Camp on the Isle of Man.[2][better source needed] Returning to London, he worked with John Corfield.[3]
Janni's success with The Glass Mountain brought him work with the Rank Organisation.[4] Janni made the popular Town Like Alice with Jack Lee and Peter Finch and the three men were reunited on Robbery Under Arms.[5]
Janni went on to produce the first films of John Schlesinger and Ken Loach.[6] Many of these were financed by Nat Cohen.[7]
Selected filmography
- Headline (1944)
- The Glass Mountain (1949)
- The Woman in Question (1950)
- White Corridors (1951)
- Honeymoon Deferred (1951)
- Something Money Can't Buy (1952)
- Romeo and Juliet (1954)
- A Town Like Alice (1956)
- Robbery Under Arms (1957)
- The Captain's Table (1958)
- The Savage Innocents (1962)
- A Kind of Loving (1962)
- Billy Liar (1963)
- Darling (1965)
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- Poor Cow (1967)
- In Search of Gregory (1969)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
- Made (1972)
- Los Amigos (1973)
- Yanks (1979)
