Gerald Thomas

Gerald Thomas (10 December 1920 – 9 November 1993) was an English film director, born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Biography

Early life

Thomas was training in medicine when the Second World War began. He then served in the British Army during the war, in Europe and the Middle East. When he left the army he decided not to return to his medical studies.

Film career

He began his film career in 1946 as an editor for Two Cities Films at Denham Studios. His editing work included many films directed by his brother, Ralph. Despite a fairly varied early career, Thomas is now almost exclusively remembered as the director of all 31 Carry On films, the innuendo-laden and financially successful British comedy series, produced by Peter Rogers, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

Personal life

Thomas' wife was Barbara; the couple had three daughters. Ralph Thomas's son is Oscar winning film producer Jeremy Thomas CBE. Some of the cast and crew of the Carry On films referred to Thomas as the 'circus ring master' and the 'school headmaster'. He became good friends with many of them over the years. He had five grandchildren, one boy and four girls.

Gerald Thomas (disambiguation)

Gerald Thomas (1920–1993) was an English film director.

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Gerald Thomas (theatre director)

Gerald Thomas Sievers, best known as simply Gerald Thomas (born July 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) is a theatre and opera director and playwright who has spent his life in the United States, England, Brazil and Germany. After graduating as a reader of philosophy at the British Museum Reading Room, Thomas began his life in the theater at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. During this period Thomas became an illustrator for the Op-Ed page of the New York Times while conducting workshops at La MaMa E.T.C. where he adapted and directed world premieres of Samuel Beckett's prose and dramatic pieces.

In the early 80s, Thomas began working with Beckett himself in Paris (after a lot of correspondence had been exchanged between them for almost two years), adapting new fiction by the author. Of these, the more notorious were All Strange Away and That Time starring the Living Theatre founder, Julian Beck in his only stage acting role outside of his own company.