Edward Godal

Edward Godal
Occupation	Film director and producer
Years active	1916–38

Edward Godal was a British film producer and director. During the First World War Godal ran a training school for actors.^[1] He became a leading independent producer of British films after the war, becoming managing director of the small but ambitious British & Colonial, based at Walthamstow Studios from 1918 to 1924.^[2] He later became involved with plans to make colour films at the newly built Elstree Studios and a proposed big-budget adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel, neither of which came to anything.^[3] His producing career largely ended with the arrival of sound in 1929, and he made only one further film, in 1938.

Selected filmography

• 12.10 (1919)
• Queen's Evidence (1919)
• The Scarlet Wooing (1920)
• The Sword of Damocles (1920)
• The Black Spider (1920)
• The Temptress (1920)
• The Audacious Mr. Squire (1923)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1923)
• The Dream of Eugene Aram (1923)
• Love and Hate (1924)
• Wanted, a Boy (1924)
• Adventurous Youth (1928, also directed)
• Chips (1938, also directed)

References

1. Low p.198
2. Low p.136
3. Low p.198-199

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

• Edward Godal at the Internet Movie Database