Edgar Anstey(1907-1987)
- Producer
- Director
- Production Manager
Documentary producer Edgar Anstey was one of the pioneers of the
British documentary movement. His mentor was famed documentarian
John Grierson at the Empire
Marketing Board Film Unit, for which he made
Uncharted Waters (1933) and
Granton Trawler (1934), among
others. Anstey later worked as a film critic for The Spectator, and
during the war he produced documentaries for the Department of
Information. He worked for the BBC in the late 1940s. In 1949 he helped
start British Transport Films, for which he produced several
documentaries.
He died in London, England, at age 80, in 1987.
He died in London, England, at age 80, in 1987.
