Roger Manvell

Roger Manvell was born on Oct 10, 1909 in UK. Roger Manvell's big-screen debut came with The Entertainer directed by Tony Richardson in 1960, strarring Bit Part (uncredited). Roger Manvell is known for The Entertainer directed by Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier stars as Archie Rice and Brenda de Banzie as Phoebe Rice. The upcoming new movie Roger Manvell plays is The Entertainer which will be released on Dec 02, 1960.

After graduating from university, Roger Manvell spent ten years as a schoolteacher and lecturer until 1940, when he joined the Films Division of the wartime Ministry of Information. After the war, he joined the British Film Institute as its Research Officer. He lectured on cinema topics all over Britain and also in the Middle East and across Europe. Famous as an author or editor of film books in the 1950s, he also wrote some television plays and scripts for a children's TV series. He regularly made appearances on British radio as a film critic and lecturer.