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Lewis Gilbert CBE

Director, Producer, Screenwriter
6 March 1920 to 23 February 2018

A British director, producer and screenwriter who directed the BAFTA-winning Educating Rita (1983), Gilbert also helmed the three Bond movies You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. He received further BAFTA nominations for Reach for the Sky (1956), Alfie (1966) and Shirley Valentine (1989), and was honoured with the Michael Balcon award in 1990.

Read Lewis Gilbert's Guardian obituary here.