Biography
Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.
He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.Pevsner served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he edited The Cambridge Review, and was a member of the St John's College Film Society and the undergraduate committee of the Cambridge Film Society, where he served alongside Otto Plaschkes and Michael Birkett. After graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.Tom Pevsner's notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula (1979). He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.
He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.
Filmography
all 29
Movies 29
Director 12
Producer 9
self 2
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles (2006)
Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (2000)
Inside 'Octopussy' (2000)
Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000)
Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000)
Goldeneye: The Secret Files (1995)
GoldenEye (1995)
Licence to Kill (1989)
The Living Daylights (1987)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Octopussy (1983)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Dracula (1979)
Julia (1977)
Doc (1971)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Topkapi (1964)
The Longest Day (1962)
Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Indiscreet (1958)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
Who Done It? (1956)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-10-02
Deathday2014-08-18 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceDresden, Germany
FatherNikolaus Pevsner
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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