George Pollock (director)

Born in Leicester, England in 1907, Pollock began his professional career as an assistant film director in 1936.He collaborated in the 1940s with David Lean on such films as Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948).However, he is best remembered for bringing the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple to the big screen for the first time in 1961 with Murder She Said.As well as film, Pollock directed episodes of the TV programmes Interpol Calling, Zero One, Gideon's Way, and Danger Man.One of his final contributions to films was as the special effects co-ordinator for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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