Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan
Timothy John Bevan, (born 20 December 1957) is a New Zealand-British film producer, the co-chairman (with Eric Fellner) of the production company Working Title Films. Bevan and Fellner are the most successful British producers of their era. Through 2017, the films he has co-produced have grossed a total of almost $7 billion worldwide. As of 2017, films by Working Title Films have won 12 Academy Awards and 39 British Academy Film Awards.
Early life and education
Bevan was born in 1957 in Queenstown, New Zealand. From 1969 to 1974, he was educated at Sidcot School, a Quaker boarding independent school in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Winscombe in North Somerset, in South West England. He then attended Cheltenham College, a boarding independent school in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, in the West of England.
Life and career
Bevan co-founded Working Title Films in London with Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Radclyffe left the company in 1991 and Eric Fellner joined to partner Bevan. Among Bevan's more than 40 films as producer or executive producer include Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Elizabeth) (1998), Notting Hill) (1999), Billy Elliot (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary) (2001), Love Actually (2003), Atonement) (2007), Frost/Nixon) (2008), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) (2011), The Theory of Everything) (2014), and Darkest Hour) (2017). Working Title are also notable for their long-time collaboration with American filmmakers the Coen brothers, having produced Barton Fink (1991), Fargo) (1996), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? among others.
Reading List
Report Issue