Simon Channing Williams

Productor

10 de junio de 1945 — 12 de abril de 2009 (63 años)
Simon Channing Williams (10 June 1945 – 11 April 2009) was a British film producer. After having worked as a production assistant and producer of TV films and TV series in the 1970s and early 1980s, he and Mike Leigh formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988. This company has produced all of Mike Leigh's films since then, among them the double Oscar-winning Topsy-Turvy, the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake and the Palme d'Or-winning Secrets & Lies.

In addition to his collaborations with Mike Leigh, he also produced other films, including teen suicide drama New Year's Day (2001 film) in 1999. He co-produced Nick Love's first film Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2000, and the same year he formed Potboiler Productions with producer Gail Egan (who also works closely with Mike Leigh and has been involved in the production of several of his films). Through Potboiler Productions Channing Williams produced Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby and Fernando Meirelles' Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener.

Channing Williams died aged 63, in Cornwall on 11 April 2009, five years after being diagnosed with cancer. Leigh paid tribute saying "His great phrase was 'let's just get on with things' and right almost to the last he was still working. He was a very extraordinary big man and he will be missed universally." Leigh dedicated his 2010 film Another Year to the memory of Simon Channing Williams.

Following Channing Williams' death, Mike Leigh started to collaborate with producer Georgina Lowe, who in 2011 took over Channing Williams' half of Thin Man Films.

A Most Wanted Man was dedicated to both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Simon Channing Williams in the closing credits.

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Películas y series en Plex

  • Cabeza de muerte (Fungus Mortalitas)
    Cabeza de muerte (Fungus Mortalitas)2007
  • De-lovely
    De-lovely2004

Conocido por

  • El jardinero fiel
    El jardinero fiel2005
  • Secretos y mentiras
    Secretos y mentiras1996
  • Happy, un cuento sobre la felicidad
    Happy, un cuento sobre la felicidad2008
  • Indefenso (Naked)
    Indefenso (Naked)1993
  • El secreto de Vera Drake
    El secreto de Vera Drake2004
  • Cabeza de muerte (Fungus Mortalitas)
    Cabeza de muerte (Fungus Mortalitas)2007
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Topsy-Turvy1999
  • De-lovely
    De-lovely2004
  • Todo o nada
    Todo o nada2002
  • Greystoke: La leyenda de Tarzán
    Greystoke: La leyenda de Tarzán1984
  • La leyenda de Nicholas Nickleby
    La leyenda de Nicholas Nickleby2002
  • Dos chicas de hoy
    Dos chicas de hoy1997
  • Jack y Sarah
    Jack y Sarah1995
  • Sentido de la historia
    Sentido de la historia1992
  • La vida es dulce
    La vida es dulce1990
  • Goodbye Charlie Bright
    Goodbye Charlie Bright2001
  • Man About Dog
    Man About Dog2004
  • Accelerator
    Accelerator2000
  • Cuando vuelvan las ballenas
    Cuando vuelvan las ballenas1989
  • New Year's Day
    New Year's Day2000

Filmography

2009
2008
Lezione 21 · as Co-Producer
2008
Blindness · as Executive Producer
2008
2007
Shrooms · as Executive ProducerEn Plex
2006
Flannel Pajamas · as Executive Producer
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
De-Lovely · as Executive ProducerEn Plex
2002
2002
2001
2000
Accelerator · as Co-Producer
2000
1999
1997
1996
1995
1995
1993
1993
1992
1990
1989
1988
1987
The Short & Curlies · as Co-Producer
1984
1983
Wagner · as Associate Producer
1979
Minder · as Associate Producer