Victor Skutezky (15 January 1893 – 1981) was an Austrian-born British film producer, screenwriter and production manager. He was born in Moravia when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but moved to Berlin after the First World War. He was employed in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic, but fled following the Nazi takeover due to his Jewish background.Prawer p.211 He settled in Britain as a refugee. He was a key filmmaker at Associated British Picture Corporation where he was a staff producer then had his own production company, Marble Arch Films.Sue Harper, Vincent Porter British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference Oxford University Press, 2003 p79-80
Selected filmography The Call of the North (1929) Sinful and Sweet (1929) The Man Without Love (1929) Daughter of the Regiment (1929) The Schlemihl (1931) It Happened One Sunday (1944) – screenplay Quiet Weekend (1946) – screenplay, producer Temptation Harbour (1947) – producer Landfall (1949) – producer For Them That Trespass (1949) – producer Murder without Crime (1951) – producer Young Wives' Tale (1951) – producer Father's Doing Fine (1952) – producer The Yellow Balloon (1953) – producer The Weak and the Wicked (1954) – producer It's Great to be Young! (1956) – producer Alive and Kicking (1958) – producer
References
Bibliography Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
Victor Skutezky at BFI