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Richard Goodwin (producer)

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Born in Bombay in 1934, Richard Goodwin grew up in India until the end of the war. He travelled to England in the first convoy to reach the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. After serving out his time at boarding school, he joined the film industry as a teaboy at the
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studios, established by Goodwin and his wife in the 1970s, in a Grade II listed, former granary at Rotherhithe, by the River Thames. Sands Films, their film and costume production company, continues to operate after nearly 40 years.
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novels, from Christie herself. Goodwin and Brabourne produced the first of their "all star" adaptations of Christie's novels with
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Richard Goodwin earliest credits are as a location and production manager, and after working as associate producer on
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In the latter part of the 1980s, Goodwin turned his hand to a television series for Britain's
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Santas, Constantine; Wilson, James M.; Colavito, Maria; Baker, Djoymi (21 March 2014).
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and Goodwin made together. Goodwin's last major film, which he executive produced, was
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In 1981, Goodwin and John Brabourne finally secured the rights to produce
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Murder on the Orient Express: Interview with Producer Richard Goodwin
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in 1952. On his return to England, he turned down a place at
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to return to the film industry, as a military adviser on
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Index

Academy Award
A Passage to India
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Murder on the Orient Express
Death on the Nile
The Mirror Crack'd
Evil Under the Sun
Little Dorrit
Seven Years in Tibet
Rank Organisation
SAS
Cambridge University
A Hill in Korea
George Baker
John Brabourne
Harry Black
Franco Zeffirelli
Romeo and Juliet
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Royal Ballet
Lord Mountbatten
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Sidney Lumet
Albert Finney
Lauren Bacall
Sean Connery
Ingrid Bergman
Death on the Nile
Peter Ustinov

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