Arnold Roger Manvell (10 October 1909 – 30 November 1987) was the first director of the British Film Academy (1947–1959) and author of many books on films and film-making.
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He wrote (sometimes in collaboration with Heinrich Fraenkel) many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. During World War II, he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his career, he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and was a broadcaster and screenwriter. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications. Manvell was named University Professor in 1982.
Roger Manvell | |
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Born | 10 October 1909 |
Died | 30 November 1987 (aged 78) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Manvell recalled his interest in cinema began when he was five years old, specifically due to film serials and slapstick comedy. He received his PhD from London University on the verse and critical work of poet W. B. Yeats. In his 1944 book Film, Manvell thanked his parents for teaching him "to go to the pictures," and John Grierson for teaching him "to look at them."
Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell.
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