David Rose, to whom the strength and vibrancy of British film owes a large part of its success, today celebrates his 90th birthday.
Happy birthday, David! We write to put on public record our gratitude for the creative vision, fine judgement and deft support he always brought to his work. At Pebble Mill for the BBC, and then as Channel 4’s commissioning editor for fiction from 1981 to 1990, he got good films made, providing opportunities for established film-makers and committing himself unflinchingly to new, young, diverse talent.
David revitalised British film and film-making, and it shows. We are ever in his debt.
Tim Bevan, Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Richard Eyre, Stephen Frears, David Hare, Jeremy Isaacs, Neil Jordan, Michael Kuhn, Mike Leigh, Sandy Lieberson, Ken Loach, Tony Palmer, Nik Powell, David Puttnam, Phil Redmond, Simon Relph, Tessa Ross, David Rudkin, Willy Russell, Ann Scott, Ann Skinner, Stephen Woolley
