---
name: "Anthony Havelock-Allan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-havelock-allan"
fi1m_id: "anthony-havelock-allan"
imdb_id: "nm0369743"
tmdb_id: 12719
wikidata_id: "Q573327"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 February 1904"
died: "11 January 2003"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T05:05:57.852179+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anthony Havelock-Allan

## Identity

Anthony Havelock-Allan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-havelock-allan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anthony-havelock-allan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0369743
- **TMDB ID:** 12719
- **Wikidata ID:** Q573327
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Havelock-Allan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573327, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369743/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12719

Producer. Born 28 February 1904 in Darlington, Durham, England, UK. Died 11 January 2003.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 February 1904, Darlington, Durham, England, UK
- **Died:** 11 January 2003
- **Active:** 1942–1968
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 writing, 3 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [David Lean](https://film.one/person/david-lean.md), [Ronald Neame](https://film.one/person/ronald-neame.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 83 (3), 1960s 75 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $43m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Havelock-Allan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573327, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369743/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12719

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Brief Encounter*](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md) (90), [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84)

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## Biography

Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003) was a British film producer and screenwriter. Born in Darlington, County Durham, he worked as a casting director before producing quota quickies and feature films from the mid-1930s.

In 1942 he co-founded the production company Cineguild with David Lean, Ronald Neame and Noël Coward. He served as associate producer on *In Which We Serve* (1942) and as producer or co-producer on *This Happy Breed* (1944), *Blithe Spirit* (1945) and *Brief Encounter* (1945), also contributing to the screenplays of several of these films. Later credits include executive producer and co-screenwriter on *Great Expectations* (1946), and producer on *Romeo and Juliet* (1968) and *Ryan's Daughter* (1970). He received three Academy Award nominations.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (1)

- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Screenplay, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)

### Produced (3) — the average rests on these

- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Fi1m 75, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)
- *Brief Encounter* (1945), Fi1m 90, Producer, Additional Writing — [page](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md)
- *In Which We Serve* (1942), Fi1m 74, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Profile of In Which We Serve* (2000), as Interviewee
- *Ryan's Daughter* (1970), Producer
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)
- *Up the Junction* (1968), Producer
- *An Evening With The Royal Ballet* (1963), Director
- *The Quare Fellow* (1962), Producer
- *Orders to Kill* (1958), Producer
- *The Young Lovers* (1954), Producer
- *Meet Me Tonight* (1952), Producer
- *Shadow of the Eagle* (1950), Producer
- *The Interrupted Journey* (1949), Producer
- *The Small Voice* (1948), Producer
- *Blanche Fury* (1948), Producer
- *Take My Life* (1947), Producer
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Screenplay, Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *Brief Encounter* (1945), Producer, Additional Writing — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md)
- *Blithe Spirit* (1945), Screenplay
- *This Happy Breed* (1944), Screenplay
- *In Which We Serve* (1942), Associate Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)
- *Unpublished Story* (1942), Producer, Story
- *From the Four Corners* (1941), Director
- *This Man in Paris* (1939), Producer
- *The Lambeth Walk* (1939), Producer
- *The Silent Battle* (1939), Producer
- *This Man Is News* (1938), Producer
- *Incident in Shanghai* (1938), Executive Producer
- *Lancashire Luck* (1938), Executive Producer
- *A Spot of Bother* (1938), Executive Producer
- *The Last Curtain* (1937), Producer
- *Night Ride* (1937), Executive Producer
- *Museum Mystery* (1937), Producer
- *House Broken* (1936), Producer, Production Supervisor
- *The Scarab Murder Case* (1936), Producer
- *Murder by Rope* (1936), Producer, Production Supervisor
- *Love at Sea* (1936), Production Supervisor
- *The Belles of St. Clements* (1936), Producer
- *Gentlemen's Agreement* (1935), Producer
- *Checkmate* (1935), Producer
- *The Price of Wisdom* (1935), Producer
- *Lucky Days* (1935), Producer
- *Cross Currents* (1935), Producer
- *The Mad Hatters* (1935), Producer
- *Once a Thief* (1935), Producer
- *The Village Squire* (1935), Producer
- *Badger’s Green* (1934), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 3 nominated

- 1969: Best Picture (nominated), for *Romeo and Juliet*
- 1948: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Great Expectations*
- 1947: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Brief Encounter*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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