Simon Channing Williams

Produttore

10 giugno 1945 — 12 aprile 2009 (63 anni)
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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Film e Serie su Plex

  • Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie
    Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie1984
  • Shrooms - Trip senza ritorno
    Shrooms - Trip senza ritorno2007
  • De-Lovely - Così facile da amare
    De-Lovely - Così facile da amare2004

Famoso per

  • The Constant Gardener - La cospirazione
    The Constant Gardener - La cospirazione2005
  • Segreti e bugie
    Segreti e bugie1996
  • La felicità porta fortuna - Happy Go Lucky
    La felicità porta fortuna - Happy Go Lucky2008
  • Il segreto di Vera Drake
    Il segreto di Vera Drake2004
  • Naked - Nudo
    Naked - Nudo1993
  • Shrooms - Trip senza ritorno
    Shrooms - Trip senza ritorno2007
  • Topsy Turvy - Sotto sopra
    Topsy Turvy - Sotto sopra1999
  • De-Lovely - Così facile da amare
    De-Lovely - Così facile da amare2004
  • Tutto o niente
    Tutto o niente2002
  • Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie
    Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie1984
  • Nicholas Nickleby
    Nicholas Nickleby2002
  • Jack & Sarah
    Jack & Sarah1995
  • Ragazze
    Ragazze1997
  • A Sense of History
    A Sense of History1992
  • Dolce è la vita
    Dolce è la vita1990
  • Man About Dog
    Man About Dog2004
  • Accelerator
    Accelerator2000
  • Quando vennero le balene
    Quando vennero le balene1989
  • New Year's Day
    New Year's Day2000
  • Belle speranze
    Belle speranze1988

Filmografia

2009
2008
Lezione 21 · as Co-Producer
2008
Blindness · as Executive Producer
2008
2007
Shrooms · as Executive ProducerSu Plex
2006
Flannel Pajamas · as Executive Producer
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
De-Lovely · as Executive ProducerSu 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

2010
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - In Memoriam
2010
The Orange British Academy Film Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute
2005
1978

1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes · as First Assistant DirectorSu Plex