For this evening’s event we are delighted to welcome Michael Medwin as he shares insight and anecdote from over 60 years’ work in the British film industry, in conversation with BFI curator Jo Botting.

Michael has enjoyed a long and distinguished career both as character actor on the stage and screen and as a film producer, in recognition of which he was awarded an OBE in 2005. A mainstay of British films from the 1940s-60s such as Above Us the Waves (1955), Carry On Nurse (1959) and The Longest Day (1962), he has also worked extensively in television, including key roles in The Army Game and Shoestring.

As producer for Memorial Enterprises, a company he established with actor Albert Finney, his films include Charlie Bubbles (1967), directed by Finney, Lindsay Anderson’s If…. (1968), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Spring and Port Wine (1970), with James Mason. He worked again with Anderson (“a fantastic filmmaker and a dear friend”) on O Lucky Man! (1973) continuing the story of the Mick Travis character from their earlier film. 

Doors open at 18.30 for a 19.30 start, and the event is expected to end at 22.30. Refreshments will be available.

Tickets & Pricing

Autumn Season 2012 ticketing applies. Advance tickets may be purchased from WeGotTickets.