Kevin Brownlow was born on Robert Kevin Brownlow; 2 June 1938 and is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor.
15 Facts About Kevin Brownlow
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Kevin Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven.
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Kevin Brownlow received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010.
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Kevin Brownlow attended Haileybury, where his contemporaries included John Howard Davies.
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Kevin Brownlow was rejected from national service due to short-sightedness.
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Kevin Brownlow began collecting silent films at the age of 11, and at age 15 he began apprenticing in the British film industry - he began as an office boy, and within five days was assigned as a trainee assistant editor, becoming an editor in 1958, working on a string of documentaries.
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Kevin Brownlow began work on the film at the age of 18 and soon began to collaborate with a 16-year-old friend, Andrew Mollo.
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In 1968, Kevin Brownlow published a book, How It Happened Here, which described the making of the film, and the reception it received.
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Kevin Brownlow had allowed genuine British Fascists to play themselves in the film, which angered some Jewish organizations.
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Kevin Brownlow had written it shortly after completing work on the film, but the manuscript sat on the shelf for 34 years before being published.
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Kevin Brownlow spent many years gaining support for the restoration of Abel Gance's French epic, Napoleon, a then-mutilated film that used many novel cinematic techniques.
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Kevin Brownlow's championing of the film succeeded, and the restored version, with a new score by Carl Davis, was shown in London in 1980, and again in London in 2013 with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
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Kevin Brownlow began a collaboration with David Gill, with whom he produced several documentaries on the silent era.
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Since David Gill died in 1997, Kevin Brownlow has continued to produce documentaries and conduct film restoration with Patrick Stanbury.
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On 9 August 2018, Kevin Brownlow again featured on The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4, where he discussed the making of and initial responses to It Happened Here.