Jay Lewis

British film director, producer and screenwriter

Film director
film producer
screenwriter
film company co-founder

Jay Gardner Lewis (1914 – June 4, 1969) was a film director, a film producer and writer born in Warwickshire, England. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Sydney Box.^[1]

Filmography

Director

A Home of Your Own starring Ronnie Barker (1964) (and writer credits)
Live Now, Pay Later (1962)^[2]
Invasion Quartet (1961)
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) (also writer and producer credits)
Queen's Messengers (1941) (and producer credit)

Producer

Front Page Story (1954) (and writer credit)
Morning Departure (1950) aka Operation Disaster (USA)

Notes

^ Spicer, Andrew (2006). Sydney Box. British Film Makers. Manchester University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7190-5999-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^ Mannikka, Eleanor (2016). "Live-Now-Pay-Later". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2015.