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Advisory Board
The Advisory Committee
of the London Film Museum.
Jonathan Sands
Founder and Chief Executive of London Film MuseumJonathan started as a stills photographer at Elstree Studios where he worked for 10 years, before acquiring prop company Weird and Wonderful in 2001 and turning it into a full production company.
He has created attractions for many visitor experiences, including the Tussauds Group at Thorpe Park, Fright Club, The Science Museum, and was the promoter of Star Wars The Exhibition at County Hall in conjunction with Lucasfilm.
Following Star Wars The Exhibition he signed a 25 year lease on 45,000 square foot of the first floor gallery space in County Hall, where in February 2008 he built and opened The Movieum of London. Incorporating his prop collection and pieces from friends and industry figures, the museum has been added to and expanded and is now the London Film Museum.
Rick Senat
Chairman of London Film MuseumA 40 year film industry veteran, Rick was a Senior Business Affairs Executive for Warner Bros. for 25 years. He has worked with many prominent filmmakers and is associated with several important films including the Harry Potter franchise, Greystoke, Batman and Superman. He develops films and has advised productions such as Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban, Troy, Alfie, Sahara, Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Doom, Derailed, Kinky Boots and other well known films.
A qualified lawyer and a visiting professor at Lincoln University, he has served as Vice Chair of the British Film Institute, is Chairman of Film Education, a UK Charity that brings film to teachers and students and takes over 400,000 young people to the cinema every year.
He sits on various boards and for several years was a Director of the Legendary and newly revived British Film Company Hammer Productions.
Leslie Hardcastle
Advisory Committee MemberLeslie Hardcastle was Controller of the British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Film Theatre (NFT) complex on London’s South Bank from its early beginnings through to his retirement in the mid 1990’s. After service in the Royal Navy he worked his way through the ranks of the BFI and led the NFT through its pioneering days including the London Film Festival (LFF), the setting up of NFT2 and the clubroom and restaurant.
Whilst controller of the NFT he also devised and headed the implementation of the Museum of Moving Image (MOMI), also on the South Bank. The multi-award winning museum was innovative and acclaimed internationally until its closure in 1999.
He was awarded the OBE for service to film, is a Fellow of the BFI and an Honorary Fellow of the BKSTS and received a BAFTA for the creation of MOMI.
ADVISORY BOARD
David Robinson
Advisory Committee MemberDavid Robinson is a film critic and historian, whose biography CHAPLIN, HIS LIFE AND ART remains the standard authority on the comedian, and was recently rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the all-time Ten Best Cinema Biographies. He is the former film critic of The Financial Times and The Times, and the author of many books on cinema history. He is currently director of the Pordenone (Italy) Silent Film Festival.
Ian Christie
Advisory Committee MemberIan Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster and consultant. He has written and edited books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Scorsese and Gilliam; and worked on exhibitions ranging from Film as Film (Hayward, 1979), Eisenstein: His Life and Art (MoMA Oxford, 1988; Hayward, 1989) and Twilight of the Tsars (Hayward, 1991) to Spellbound (Hayward, 1996) and Modernism: Designing a New World (V&A, 2006).
He served as head of distribution and exhibition at the British Film Institute for many years, and in 2006 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University, with a series of lectures entitled ‘The Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented’. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, director of the London Screen Study Collection and vice-president of Europa-Cinemas, of which he was a co-founder. His current work includes studying the cultural impact of film in the digital era and the history of production design.
Linda Ayton
Advisory Committee MemberLinda Ayton worked in the film industry, primarily in Feature Film Production, for forty-one years. In 1966 she joined Producer, David Deutsch (son of Oscar Deutsch, Founder of the Odeon Cinemas) who trained her in all aspects of Film Production. In 1970 they moved to Romulus films, where she worked on both “The Day of The Jackal” and “The Odessa File” with Sir John Woolf.
At this time she met the legendary film director, Fred Zinnemann who asked her to be his Personal Assistant on his next production “Julia” and she subsequently worked with him for twenty-one years until his death in 1997. At the behest of Sir Alan Parker (Chairman) and Rick Senat (Deputy Chairman), Linda then joined the BFI as their External Relations Manager until her retirement in 2007
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The London Film Museum has enjoyed a successful 2010 and at the start of 2011 has unveiled an exciting new location situated at the heart of the Covent Garden area in London.
Indiana Jones (1981)
Magnum star Tom Selleck was almost cast as Indiana before Harrison Ford.
Star Wars (1977)
Christopher Walken was almost cast as
Han Solo
The Godfather (1972)
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn were almost cast as Vito Corleone before Marlon Brando
James Bond, The Living Daylights (1987)
Pierce Brosnan was almost cast before producers finally chose Timothy Dalton
Magnum star Tom Selleck was almost cast as Indiana before Harrison Ford.
Star Wars (1977)
Christopher Walken was almost cast as
Han Solo
The Godfather (1972)
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn were almost cast as Vito Corleone before Marlon Brando
James Bond, The Living Daylights (1987)
Pierce Brosnan was almost cast before producers finally chose Timothy Dalton
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