Edgar Anstey

Biography

Edgar Anstey OBE (16 February 1907 – 26 September 1987), was a leading British documentary filmmaker.

Personal Facts

Known For

Production

Gender

male

Known Credits

124

Birth Date

1907-02-16 00:00:00

Birth Place

Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Known For

• 

  Electric Eskimo
• Age of Invention
• Midland Country
• Britannia: A Bridge
• 

  The Scene from Melbury House
• Journey Inter-City

Credits

• actors (3 credits)

  • Hooray For Holyrood

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Open Door: The Other Cinema

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Before Hindsight

    actor

    actors
    1977

• production (109 credits)

  • Electric Eskimo

    co-producer

    production
    1979
  • Age of Invention

    producer

    production
    1975
  • Midland Country

    executive producer

    production
    1974
  • Britannia: A Bridge

    producer

    production
    1973
  • The Scene from Melbury House

    producer

    production
    1973
  • Journey Inter-City

    producer

    production
    1972
  • A Day with SELNEC

    producer

    production
    1972
  • The Key to Britain

    executive producer

    production
    1972
  • Golfers in a Scottish Landscape

    producer

    production
    1971
  • London on the Move

    producer

    production
    1970
  • Railways for Ever!

    producer

    production
    1970
  • People in Railways

    producer

    production
    1970
  • The Site in the Sea

    producer

    production
    1970
  • Rush Hour

    producer

    production
    1970
  • Prospects of Ireland

    production manager

    production
    1970
  • The Victoria Line Report No. 5: London's Victoria Line

    executive producer

    production
    1969
  • A Tale Out of School

    executive producer

    production
    1969
  • Rail Report 9: Top Levels of Transport

    producer

    production
    1969
  • British Rails Are Long and Fast

    producer

    production
    1969
  • Rail Report 8: The New Tradition

    producer

    production
    1968
  • Travelling Sixties

    producer

    production
    1968
  • Second Nature

    producer

    production
    1967
  • Rail Report 7: Speed the Payload

    producer

    production
    1967
  • The Driving Force

    executive producer

    production
    1966
  • Forward to First Principles

    producer

    production
    1966
  • Wild Wings

    producer

    production
    1966
  • Glasgow Belongs to Me

    producer

    production
    1966
  • The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes

    producer

    production
    1965
  • Europe by Train

    producer

    production
    1965
  • Rail Report 5

    producer

    production
    1965
  • The Coach Travellers

    producer

    production
    1965
  • The Hostellers

    producer

    production
    1965
  • Down to Sussex

    producer

    production
    1964
  • Driving Technique: Part 1 - Passenger Trains

    producer

    production
    1964
  • We're in Business Too!

    producer

    production
    1964
  • A Hundred Years Underground

    producer

    production
    1963
  • Thirty Million Letters

    producer

    production
    1963
  • Reshaping British Railways

    producer

    production
    1963
  • Omnibus for All

    producer

    production
    1963
  • The Port of Hull

    producer

    production
    1963
  • Snow

    producer

    production
    1963
  • ...All That Mighty Heart...

    producer

    production
    1962
  • North to the Dales

    producer

    production
    1962
  • London for a Day

    producer

    production
    1962
  • The Signal Engineers

    producer

    production
    1962
  • Robert Reid Reports on British Waterways

    producer

    production
    1962
  • Terminus

    producer

    production
    1961
  • Wild Highlands

    executive producer

    production
    1961
  • Speaking of Freight

    producer

    production
    1961
  • They Take the High Road

    executive producer

    production
    1960
  • A Letter for Wales

    producer

    production
    1960
  • Blue Pullman

    producer

    production
    1960
  • Diesel Trainride

    executive producer

    production
    1959
  • An Artist Looks at Churches

    producer

    production
    1959
  • Groundwork for Progress

    executive producer

    production
    1959
  • The Coasts of Clyde

    executive producer

    production
    1959
  • Care of St Christopher’s

    executive producer

    production
    1959
  • Broad Waterways

    executive producer

    production
    1959
  • Under Night Streets

    producer

    production
    1958
  • Between the Tides

    executive producer

    production
    1958
  • Giant Load

    producer

    production
    1958
  • A Desperate Case

    producer

    production
    1958
  • Journey Into Spring

    executive producer

    production
    1958
  • Coaching Holiday

    executive producer

    production
    1958
  • The Travel Game

    executive producer

    production
    1958
  • A Future on Rail

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Lancashire Coast

    executive producer

    production
    1957
  • Holiday

    executive producer

    production
    1957
  • Every Valley

    producer

    production
    1957
  • The England of Elizabeth

    executive producer

    production
    1957
  • Yesterday's Britain: Highlands

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Link Span

    executive producer

    production
    1956
  • The Long Night Haul

    executive producer

    production
    1956
  • The Land of Robert Burns

    executive producer

    production
    1956
  • A Day of One's Own

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Any Man's Kingdom

    executive producer

    production
    1956
  • Men on the Mend

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Round the Island

    executive producer

    production
    1956
  • Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Yorkshire Sands

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?

    executive producer

    production
    1955
  • Capital Visit

    executive producer

    production
    1955
  • The Peak District

    executive producer

    production
    1954
  • The Heart of England

    executive producer

    production
    1954
  • East Anglian Holiday

    executive in charge of production

    production
    1954
  • Elizabethan Express

    producer

    production
    1954
  • London's Country

    producer

    production
    1954
  • The Elephant Will Never Forget

    producer

    production
    1953
  • This Is York

    producer

    production
    1953
  • Ocean Terminal

    producer

    production
    1952
  • Journey Into History

    producer

    production
    1952
  • Dodging the Column

    producer

    production
    1952
  • Away for the Day

    producer

    production
    1952
  • The Heart Is Highland

    producer

    production
    1952
  • This Year – London

    executive producer

    production
    1951
  • Work in Progress

    producer

    production
    1951
  • Berth 24

    producer

    production
    1950
  • Fenlands

    associate producer

    production
    1946
  • The Proud City: A Plan for London

    associate producer

    production
    1946
  • Crofters

    associate producer

    production
    1944
  • Debris Tunnelling

    producer

    production
    1943
  • Words and Actions

    producer

    production
    1943
  • Dustbin Parade

    associate producer

    production
    1942
  • Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3

    producer

    production
    1941
  • How to File

    producer

    production
    1941
  • What's For Dinner

    producer

    production
    1940
  • Housing Problems

    producer

    production
    1935
  • Granton Trawler

    producer

    production
    1934
  • Airport

    producer

    production
    1934

• directing (8 credits)

  • The Scene from Melbury House

    director

    directing
    1973
  • Reshaping British Railways

    director

    directing
    1963
  • Enough to Eat?

    director

    directing
    1936
  • On the Way to Work

    director

    directing
    1936
  • Housing Problems

    director

    directing
    1935
  • Dinner Hour

    director

    directing
    1935
  • Granton Trawler

    director

    directing
    1934
  • 6.30 Collection

    director

    directing
    1934

• writing (2 credits)

  • Rail Report 11: Rails Conserve the Environment

    writer

    writing
    1970
  • Reshaping British Railways

    writer

    writing
    1963

• editing (2 credits)

  • Granton Trawler

    editor

    editing
    1934
  • Industrial Britain

    editor

    editing
    1931