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David Korda, British Producer and Scion of Famous Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87
David Korda, the British producer and film financier who hailed from a family of notable filmmakers, has died. He was 87.
Korda attended the Lycée in South Kensington prior to the International School in Geneva, Pomona College and Oxford. The company was funded with financial support from Zoltàn and would go on to spotlight performances from actors such as Eileen Atkins, Prunella Scales and Jeremy Brett. After Zoltàn’s death the following year, Korda served as an assistant on Peter Brook’s 1963 feature “Lord of the Flies.” For producer Charles H. Schneer, he compiled footage to be used for films such as “Siege of the Saxons,” “East of Sudan” and “Land Raiders.” For his incorporation of film sequences from “The Four Feathers,” Korda said: “I always thought my father must have turned in his grave.”
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