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Mark Shelmerdine, the veteran producer who revived London Films as an indie powerhouse and played a pivotal role in the development of the international TV distribution market, died October 26 in Santa Barbara surrounded by his family. He was 78.
Among his achievements, he was among the first UK indie TV producers to retain rights to a broadcast production and was a founder of the LA branch of BAFTA.
Shelmerdine’s death was confirmed to Deadline by his friend Brian Eastman. The producer had survived a rare and potentially deadly form of bile duct cancer by receiving a life-saving liver transplant in 2018 through a trial in Houston, and was one of the longest living survivors of the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Hospital program.
Born on March 27, 1945, Shelmerdine spent part of his childhood in Singapore before moving to the UK. He was awarded a place to attend Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University but finances prohibited this so he trained as a chartered accountant instead — a role that brought him into the Taylor Clark Group.
Among a disparate group of companies owned by Scottish businessman Robert Clark were the Caledonian Associated Cinema and ABC Cinema chains, for which Shelmerdine prepared weekly box office reports and analysed which films were popular, introducing him to the entertainment business.
Taylor also owned the catalog of London Films, the company founded in 1932 by Hungarian-born British filmmaker Alexander Korda. The company had made more than 90 films before Korda’s death in 1956, including The Private Life of Henry VIII starring Charles Laughton, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon), H.G. Wells’ Things to Come (Raymond Massey), Anna Karenina (Viven
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