Tom Pevsner

Tom Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.

Tom Pevsner
Born
Thomas C. Pevsner

(1926-10-02)2 October 1926
Dresden, Germany
Died18 August 2014(2014-08-18) (aged 87)
Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationAssistant film director and producer
Years active1953–95
Parent(s)Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Lola Pevsner

He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.[1]

He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the University of Cambridge,[2] where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society.[3] He was editor of The Cambridge Review; after graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.[4]

Tom Pevsner's s notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula.[2] He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.[5]

References
  1. Stephen Games (2010). Pevsner – the early life: Germany and Art. Continuum. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4411-4386-0.
  2. "Executive producer Tom Pevsner has died". Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  3. David Robinson (15 February 2005). "Otto Plaschkes; Film producer uncompromising in his honesty and passion". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  4. Richard Mayne (2015). The Copper Stick. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 119. ISBN 1-78462-280-X.
  5. "In Memoriam". Academy Awards. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.


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