John E. Blakeley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John E. Blakeley (1 October 1888 – 20 February 1958) was a British film producer, director and screenwriter, the founder of Mancunian Films.Born Ardwick, Manchester, son of James Blakeley (born circa 1862; Manchester), and Margaret (born circa 1861; Glasgow, Scotland). His father had become an early film distributor in 1908 after previous work as a travelling draper. Blakeley joined his father's business and soon came to understand the tastes of the emerging cinema audiences in the northern industrial towns. By the 1930s, the younger Blakeley was making films starring the idols of northern music hall comedy: George Formby, Frank Randle and Sandy Powell.Initially relying on London studios, rising costs encouraged him to found the Mancunian Film Studios in his hometown in 1947, on GBP 70,000 capital. The studios went on to produce a sequence of successful and profitable films, often on shoestring budgets, until Blakeley's retirement in 1953. He died in Stockport.
Born in 1889 into of a family of cinema owners and film renters in the North West. Co-founder of Mancunian Films in Manchester, their output distributed through a company called Butchers Films. Blakeley starred many north-country music hall performers in his films and is credited with making George Formby into a star. His slapstick comedies remained popular throughout the 1940s and into the early 1950s. The studio was acquired by the BBC in 1954 and eventually demolished in 1967.
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