Gerry Blattner

Gerry Blattner (real first name Gerard) was a British film producer who worked on many films produced by Warner Bros. in the United Kingdom.

Career

Gerry Blattner was a British film producer and executive producer, best known for producing the Oscar- and

In the contemporary Australian publicity handouts for The Sundowners, the section describing the choice of locations quotes (and describes) Gerry Blattner thus:[11]

'The whole effect is a visual one,' explains Gerry Blattner, the tubby English producer with a satisfied finality in his voice. 'We want one half of the picture to have a background of deep green, hence

Port Augusta

.'

In 1976 the television adaptation of I, Claudius was produced by arrangement with Gerry Blattner Productions.^[12]

Personal life

Although born in Liverpool in 1913,^[13] the later years of his childhood were spent in Hertfordshire after his father bought the Ideal Film Company studio in Elstree in 1928. When his father committed suicide in 1935, Gerry was only 22 years old. He married in 1943 during the production of the film Theatre Royal, which starred Flanagan and Allen: Barbara K. Emary recalled that they gave a china tea set as a wedding present, but dropped it as a joke as it was being handed over.^[14] He had one daughter, Sandra, whose marriage to David Benson was attended by many film star friends of her father.^[15] Gerry and his first wife Pamela also lived in Elstree while he was working for Warner Bros. Simon Cowell's parents lived next door,^[16] and Gerry is credited with helping Simon to obtain his first job in showbusiness^[17][18] as a runner on the production of The Shining, which was shot at Elstree Studios by Warner Bros. Gerry died in the early 1990s.

Gerry and his father were honoured by the naming of Blattner Close in Elstree in the mid-1990s.^[19][20][21]

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