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Sir Alexander Korda (16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company. The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Korda was born as Sándor László Kellner to a Jewish family in Pusztatúrpásztó in what is now Hungary (it was then a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire), where he worked as a journalist (supporting the Hungarian Soviet Republic) before going into films as a... MORE

Sir Alexander Korda (16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company. The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Korda was born as Sándor László Kellner to a Jewish family in Pusztatúrpásztó in what is now Hungary (it was then a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire), where he worked as a journalist (supporting the Hungarian Soviet Republic) before going into films as a producer. He also worked in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Hollywood, becoming director of United Artists. He worked closely with many artists on his films, including his Hungarian friend, painter and set designer Emile Lahner. The first film Korda made in the United States, in 1927, was titled The Stolen Bride. By 1932 he had made 16 further films in the U.S. The last of these, Service for Ladies, was made in 1931 and released in 1932 after Korda had settled to London. In 1936 he took out British citizenship. In 1932 Korda founded London Films with Big Ben as the company logo. The company's releases included The LESS