Independent Artists (company) (original) (raw)

Independent Artists was a British production company of the 1950s and 1960s. It specialised in making second features. The company was strongest from 1958-63 when Julian Wintle ran it with Leslie Parkyn out of Beaconsfield Film Studios. Their films Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) and Tiger Bay (1959) were BAFTA nominated and BAFTA winning; while This Sporting Life (1963) was Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning.