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Director, Producer Born: August 10, 1915 in Hull, Yorkshire, England Death: March 17, 2001 in London, England Biography:"Ralph Thomas" -- elder brother of director "Gerald Thomas" -- was educated at Middlesex University College and entered the movie industry as a clapper boy in 1932. By 1934, he had advanced to assistant editor but gave up the picture business to pursue a career in journalism that lasted until World War II, during which he served with the Ninth Lancers. After World War II, he returned to motion pictures as the head of the trailer department for the Rank Organisation. He became a director soon after, and established himself as an efficient and occasionally inspired filmmaker whose best work cut across genres -- among his finest films is the Hitchcockian thriller "The Clouded Yellow" (1951), which in many ways anticipated the plot line of the television series "The Equalizer", with "Trevor Howard" portraying a former British intelligence agent forced out of the service for some unknown indiscretion, who... Full Biography
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