R.J. Minney

R.J. Minney (1895-1979) was a British film producer, journalist, editor and author.

In 1933 Minney wrote a play Clive of India, based on an earlier biography he had written, that was a major West End hit. He was hired to write the screenplay for the 1935 American film adaptation Clive of India by producer Darryl F. Zanuck. However he did not settle in Hollywood and returned to Britain.

During the 1940s he worked at Gainsborough Pictures. He produced The Wicked Lady (1945).[1] He was employed on a number of the company's commercially successful Gainsborough Melodramas. However, he resigned from the Rank Organisation in 1947, unhappy with the direction of the company.[2]

Novels

  • Maki 1921
  • The Road to Delhi 1923
  • Distant Drums 1935
  • How Vainly Men 1940
  • A Woman of France 1945
  • Nothing to Lose 1946
  • Bring Out the Drum 1950
  • The Governor’s Wife 1951
  • Anne of the Sealed Knot 1972

Biographies

  • Clive 1931
  • Governor General 1935
  • Gentle Caesar, Tsar Nicholas II
  • Charlie Chaplin – The Immortal Tramp 1954
  • Viscount Southwood 1954
  • Carve Her Name with Pride 1956
  • Clive of India 1957
  • Viscount Addison, Leader of the Lords 1958
  • Fanny and the Regent of Siam 1962
  • Rasputin 1972/3
  • Puffin Asquith 1973
  • Lola Montez 1976

Other Books

  • Shiva, or the Future of India 1929
  • India Marches Past 1933
  • Hollywood by Starlight 1935
  • Midst Himalayan Mists
  • Excursions in Ink
  • Across India by Air
  • The Journalist
  • Night Life of Calcutta
  • Talking of Films 1947
  • A Stag Party with Men Only 1955
  • Next Stop Peking 1957
  • The Private Papers of Hore Belisha 1960
  • No 10 Downing Street, a House in History 1963
  • The Film Maker and His World 1964
  • The Edwardian Age 1964
  • I Shall Fear No Evil 1966
  • The Two Pillars of Charing Cross 1967
  • Recollections of George Bernard Shaw 1969
  • The Tower of London 1970
  • Hampton Court 1972

Plays

  • Clive of India 1933
  • Gentle Caesar 1942
  • They Had His Number 1942
  • The Red Horizon 1943
  • The Voice of the People 1950

Films

References

  1. ↑ Biography at Personal website
  2. ↑ PRODUCER QUITS RANK IN SPLIT OVER POLICY New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 24 Jan 1947: 18.
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