Ian Dalrymple

Cambridge-educated Ian Dalrymple began his four-decade career in the British film industry as a film editor in 1927. Moving into screenwriting, Dalrymple won an Academy award for his cinemadaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion (1938) and was nominated for his work on The Citadel (1938). Before the 1930s were through, he'd try his hand at directing with the frivolous farce Storm in a Teacup (1937). After producing a group of morale-boosting wartime pictures, he organized his own production film, Wessock Films. Amidst a great deal of activity as a producer, he took a shot at directing for the second and last time with the stormy melodrama Esther Waters (1949). Ever eager to make films that would satisfy both domestic and American audiences, Ian Dalrymple went on to produce such international favorites as The Wooden Horse (1950), Three Cases of Murder (1953), and The Admirable Crichton (aka Paradise Lagoon, 1957).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide