Jack Clayton
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British film director and producer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jack Isaac Clayton was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen. Overview Starting out as a teenage studio "tea boy" in 1935, Clayton worked his way up through British film industry in a career that spanned nearly sixty years. He rapidly rose through a series of increasingly important roles in British film production, before shooting to international prominence as a director with his Oscar-winning feature film debut, the drama Room at the Top . This was followed by the much-lauded horror film The Innocents , based on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.