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	\| death_date = '''John:''' {{death date and age\|df=yes\|1985\|6\|17\|1913\|12\|21}}<br />[[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, England<hr />'''Roy:''' {{death date and age\|df=yes\|2001\|11\|5\|1913\|12\|21}}<br />[[Eynsham]], [[Oxfordshire]], England		\| death_date = '''John:''' {{death date and age\|df=yes\|1985\|6\|17\|1913\|12\|21}}<br />[[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, England<hr />'''Roy:''' {{death date and age\|df=yes\|2001\|11\|5\|1913\|12\|21}}<br />[[Eynsham]], [[Oxfordshire]], England
	\| other_names = '''Collectively:''' Boulting brothers<hr />'''John:''' John Edward Boulting~~{{citation needed\|date=December 2021}}~~<hr />'''Roy:''' "Roy" Alfred Clarence Boulting~~{{citation needed\|date=December 2021}}~~		\| other_names = '''Collectively:''' Boulting brothers<hr />'''John:''' John Edward Boulting<hr />'''Roy:''' "Roy" Alfred Clarence Boulting
	\| occupation = [[Film producer]]s and [[film director\|director]]s		\| occupation = [[Film producer]]s and [[film director\|director]]s
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	{{Infobox person		{{Infobox person
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	==Deaths==		==Deaths==
	John Boulting died on 17 June 1985 at his home in [[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, and Roy Boulting 16 years later on 5 November 2001 in the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Oxford]]; both died of cancer.<ref name=odnb/>		John Boulting died on 17 June 1985 at his home in [[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, and Roy Boulting 16 years later on 5 November 2001 in the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Oxford]]; both died of cancer.<ref name=odnb/>

	~~== In popular culture ==~~
	~~A still from ''[[The Family Way]]'' was used for [[The Smiths]] single "[[I Started Something I Couldn't Finish]]".~~

	==Filmography==		==Filmography==

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	==Careers==		==Careers==
	[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|left\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]

	The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.		The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.

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	===Feature films===		===Feature films===
			[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|right\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]
	Being eager to speak out against the [[Third Reich]], the brothers made their film, ''[[Pastor Hall]]'' (1940), a biopic of [[Martin Niemöller]], a German preacher who refused to kowtow to the Nazis. Roy directed and John produced. The film had to have its initial release delayed by the British Government, which was not yet ready to be openly critical of Nazism. Once released, the film was well received by the critics and the public.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446435/\|title=BFI Screenonline: Boulting Brothers\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk\|language=en\|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17705742 \|title=Pastor Hall. \|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] \|issue=32,069 \|location=New South Wales, Australia \|date=10 October 1940 \|access-date=13 September 2017 \|page=18 \|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>		Being eager to speak out against the [[Third Reich]], the brothers made their film, ''[[Pastor Hall]]'' (1940), a biopic of [[Martin Niemöller]], a German preacher who refused to kowtow to the Nazis. Roy directed and John produced. The film had to have its initial release delayed by the British Government, which was not yet ready to be openly critical of Nazism. Once released, the film was well received by the critics and the public.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446435/\|title=BFI Screenonline: Boulting Brothers\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk\|language=en\|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17705742 \|title=Pastor Hall. \|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] \|issue=32,069 \|location=New South Wales, Australia \|date=10 October 1940 \|access-date=13 September 2017 \|page=18 \|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

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	\| birth_name = Joseph Edward John Boulting<br />{{birth date\|df=yes\|1913\|12\|21}}<hr />Alfred Fitzroy Clarence Boulting<br />{{birth date\|df=yes\|1913\|12\|21}}		\| birth_name = Joseph Edward John Boulting<br />{{birth date\|df=yes\|1913\|12\|21}}<hr />Alfred Fitzroy Clarence Boulting<br />{{birth date\|df=yes\|1913\|12\|21}}
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	==Careers==		==Careers==
	[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|~~right~~\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]		[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|left\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]

	The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.		The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.
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	[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|~~left~~\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]		[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg\|right\|200px\|thumb\|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]

	The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.		The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.

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{{short description|Twin brothers and filmmakers}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2011}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = John and Roy Boulting
| image = Roy-and-john-boulting1952.jpg
| caption = Roy (left) and John (right) Boulting, in 1952
| birth_name = Joseph Edward John Boulting<br />{{birth date|df=yes|1913|12|21}}<hr />Alfred Fitzroy Clarence Boulting<br />{{birth date|df=yes|1913|12|21}}
| birth_place = [[Bray, Berkshire]], England
| death_date = '''John:''' {{death date and age|df=yes|1985|6|17|1913|12|21}}<br />[[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, England<hr />'''Roy:''' {{death date and age|df=yes|2001|11|5|1913|12|21}}<br />[[Eynsham]], [[Oxfordshire]], England
| other_names = '''Collectively:''' Boulting brothers<hr />'''John:''' John Edward Boulting{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}<hr />'''Roy:''' "Roy" Alfred Clarence Boulting{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
| occupation = [[Film producer]]s and [[film director|director]]s
| known_for =
| spouse = '''John:'''{{plainlist |
*{{marriage|Veronica Davidson|1938|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Jacqueline Duncan|1952|1966|reason=divorced}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs. John Boulting Gets Decree|work=[[The Times]]|date=21 June 1966|page=16}}</ref>
*{{marriage|Ann Marion|1972|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Anne Josephine|1977|}}<ref name=odnb/>
}}<hr />
'''Roy:'''{{plainlist |
*{{marriage|Angela Warnock|1936|1941|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Jean Capon|1942|1951|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Enid Munnik|1951|1964|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|[[Hayley Mills]]|1971|1977|reason=divorced}}
*{{marriage|Sandra Spencer|1978|1984|reason=divorced}}<ref name=odnb/>
}}
| partner = '''Roy:''' Victoria Vaughan (mid-1960s)<ref name=odnb/>
| children = '''John:''' 6<hr />'''Roy:''' 7, including [[Crispian Mills]]
| parents =
| website =
| footnotes =
| relations =
}}

'''John Edward Boulting'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/508434/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Boulting, John (1913-1985) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> (21 December<ref name=odnb/> 1913 – 17 June 1985) and '''Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/492761/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Boulting, Roy (1913-2001) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> (21 December<ref name=odnb/> 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the '''Boulting brothers''', were English filmmakers and [[identical twin]]s who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which they founded in 1937.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/company/co0103294/?ref_=ttco_co_4 IMDb: Charter Film Productions] Linked 2013-05-24</ref>

==Early life==
The twin brothers were born to Arthur Boulting and his wife Rosetta (Rose) ''née'' Bennett in [[Bray, Berkshire|Bray]], [[Berkshire]], England, on 21 December<ref name=odnb/> 1913. John was the elder by half an hour. John was named '''Joseph Edward John Boulting''' and Roy was named '''Alfred Fitzroy Clarence Boulting'''. Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and [[Theatrical producer|stage producer]] as [[Peter Cotes]]; he was the original director of ''[[The Mousetrap]]''. A younger brother, Guy, died aged eight.

Both twins were educated at [[Reading School]], where they formed a film society. They were [[extra (acting)|extra]]s in [[Anthony Asquith]]'s 1931 film ''[[Tell England (film)|Tell England]]'' while still at school.<ref name=odnb>{{Cite ODNB|id=30836|title=Boulting, John Edward (1913–1985); also including Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (1913–2001)|first=Alan|last=Burton}}</ref>

As a teenager, Roy emigrated to [[Canada]],<ref name="fdd">{{cite journal |last1=Doering |first1=Jonathan |title=The Boulting Brothers and the contemporary British film industry |journal=Contemporary Review |date=October 2002 |volume=281 |issue=1641 |pages=235–241 |url=http://filmdope.com/forums/80588-boulting-brothers.html |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> working for a while as a shop assistant, but also writing dialoque for at least one Canadian film. He worked his passage home aboard a cattle freighter in about 1933, working first in film sales before moving into film production as assistant director on a 1936 comedy quickie ''Apron Fools''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Apron Fools |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e74ad70 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Dave |title=Elsie in the Movies |url=https://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/elsie-in-the-movies/ |website=The Library Time Machine |publisher=Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea}}</ref><ref name="tcm">{{cite web |title=Roy Boulting - Biography |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/19972%7C135615/Roy-Boulting/#biography |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=8 April 2022 |location=Accessible from US IPs only}}</ref> The money he made on his passage home went to finance the brothers' first work, a short entitled ''Ripe Earth'' (1938),<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> about the village of [[Thaxted]], [[Essex]], narrated by [[Leo Genn]].<ref name=fdd/>

From January-November 1937,<ref name="sp2">{{cite web |title=John Boulting |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/SPboulting.htm |website=Spartacus Educational |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> John served on the Republican side in the [[Spanish Civil War]] as an ambulance driver<ref>{{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ots1AQAAIAAJ|date=July 1985|publisher=University Microfilms}}</ref><ref name="BurgessTurner1988">{{cite book|author1=Patricia Burgess|author2=Roland Turner|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=9780912289823}}</ref> with the Spanish Medical Aid Committee<ref name="sp1">{{cite web |title=Spanish Medical Aid Committee |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/SPmedicalaid.htm |website=Spartacus Educational |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> (not, as sometimes reported, with the [[International Brigades]]),<ref name="Shail2007">{{cite book|author=Robert Shail|title=British Film Directors: A Critical Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/britishfilmdirec0000shai|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-2832-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/britishfilmdirec0000shai/page/30 30]–}}</ref><ref name="McFarlane1997">{{cite book|author=Brian McFarlane|title=An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WdZAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-70520-4}}</ref> where — according to [[Richard Attenborough]] — he was nearly captured.<ref name="HawkinsAttenborough2014">{{cite book|author1=Diana Hawkins|author2=Richard Attenborough|title=Entirely Up to You, Darling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGdlBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT68|date=4 September 2014|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4481-0604-2|pages=68–}}</ref>

==Careers==
[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Roy Boulting on the editing of the film ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'']]

The brothers constituted a producer-director team. For most of their careers one produced while the other directed, but the product remained essentially a 'Boulting Brothers film'. They were socialists, as John demonstrated with the [[International Brigades]], and wanted all film, including comedies, to reflect the real world.

===Charter Film Productions===
In 1937, they set up '''Charter Film Productions''' and made several short features, including ''The Landlady'' (1937) and ''Consider Your Verdict'' (1938), which attracted critical and commercial attention.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Carney|first1=George|title=Consider Your Verdict|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255461/|last2=Goring|last3=Petrie|first2=Marius|first3=Hay|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref>

They made [[Cinematograph Films Act 1927#Quota quickie|quota quickies]] such as ''[[Trunk Crime]]'' (1939) and ''[[Inquest (1939 film)|Inquest]]'' (1939).

===Feature films===
Being eager to speak out against the [[Third Reich]], the brothers made their film, ''[[Pastor Hall]]'' (1940), a biopic of [[Martin Niemöller]], a German preacher who refused to kowtow to the Nazis. Roy directed and John produced. The film had to have its initial release delayed by the British Government, which was not yet ready to be openly critical of Nazism. Once released, the film was well received by the critics and the public.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446435/|title=BFI Screenonline: Boulting Brothers|website=www.screenonline.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17705742 |title=Pastor Hall. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=32,069 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 October 1940 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

They followed up with ''[[Thunder Rock (film)|Thunder Rock]]'' (1942) with [[Michael Redgrave]], a passionate anti-isolationist allegory distinguished by imaginative cinematography and a theatrical but highly atmospheric lighthouse setting. It was financed by [[MGM]].

===Military service===
In 1941, Roy joined the [[Army Film Unit]], where he was responsible for ''[[Desert Victory]]'', which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1944.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944|title=The 16th Academy Awards {{!}} 1944|newspaper=Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|language=en|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref> He also worked on ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'' (1944) and ''[[Burma Victory]]'' (1945). John joined the [[RAF Film Unit]], where he made ''[[Journey Together]]'' in 1945, a dramatised documentary about the training and combat experience of a bomber crew with [[Richard Attenborough]] in the lead part. [[Terence Rattigan]] worked on the script.

===Post-war films===
After the war, the Boultings made the drama ''[[Fame Is the Spur (film)|Fame Is the Spur]]'' (1947) with Redgrave.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42501896 |title=TWIN PRODUCERS |newspaper=[[Cairns Post]] |issue=13,838 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=10 July 1946 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> More successful at the box-office was ''[[Brighton Rock (1947 film)|Brighton Rock]]'' (1947), starring Attenborough as the gangster "Pinkie" from the novel by [[Graham Greene]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76088075 |title=THE GUINEA PIG |newspaper=[[Northern Times]] |volume=75 |issue=52 |location=Western Australia |date=27 December 1951 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Also well liked was ''[[The Guinea Pig (film)|The Guinea Pig]]'' (1948), starring Richard Attenborough as a young working-class boy sent to a public school. It was made for Pilgrim Pictures who the Boultings left shortly afterwards.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230244255 |title=Charge of wasting film money |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2387 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 January 1949 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The Boultings co-directed the thriller ''[[Seven Days to Noon]]'' (1950), which won an Oscar for Best Story.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59496318 |title=FILM GOSSIP FROM LONDON AND HOLLYWOOD EVEN THE ACTORS DON'T KNOW FULL STORY |newspaper=[[Sunday Times (Perth)]] |issue=2693 |location=Western Australia |date=9 October 1949 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=2 (Sunday Times Comics) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It led to a less popular sequel, ''[[High Treason (1951 film)|High Treason]]'' (1951). John directed ''[[The Magic Box]]'' (1951), a biopic of [[William Friese-Greene]] and a film containing numerous cameo appearances. It was shown at the 1951 [[Festival of Britain]] but on general release the following year proved a box office disappointment.

===Hollywood-financed films===
Roy received an offer to direct a World War Two naval film, ''[[Sailor of the King]]'' (1953), starring [[Jeffrey Hunter]] for [[20th Century Fox]]. ''[[Seagulls Over Sorrento]]'' (1954) was another war naval story financed by a Hollywood studio (in this case MGM) with an imported star ([[Gene Kelly]]); it was not a big success. The brothers collaborated on a comedy, ''[[Josephine and Men]]'' (1955) then Roy was hired by [[United Artists]] to do an action film with Hollywood stars, ''[[Run for the Sun]]'' (1956).

===Satires===
In the mid-50s, the Boulting brothers became identified with "affectionate"<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/nov/07/news3|title=Roy Boulting|last=Barr|first=Charles|date=2001-11-07|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2017-01-28}}</ref> satires on British institutions. The sequence began with John's ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956), a look at army life, starring Attenborough, [[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Ian Carmichael]] and co written by [[Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)|Frank Harvey]]. It was the second most commercially successful film in Britain in 1956.<ref>BRITISH. FILMS MADE MOST MONEY: BOX-OFFICE SURVEY The Manchester Guardian (1901-1959) [Manchester (UK)] 28 December 1956: 3</ref>

They followed it with ''[[Lucky Jim (1957 film)|Lucky Jim]]'' (1957), set in academia, adapted from the novel by [[Kingsley Amis]]. It starred Carmichael and Terry-Thomas.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51599066 |title=A FACULTY OF FUN |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=25 |issue=39 |location=Australia |date=5 March 1958 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=60 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> ''[[Brothers in Law (film)|Brothers in Law]]'' (1957) with Carmichael, Attenborough and Thomas, took on the legal profession. They had a break from satirising institutions with ''[[Happy Is the Bride]]'' (1958), an adaptation of ''[[Quiet Wedding (play)|Quiet Wedding]]'', then returned to it with ''[[Carlton-Browne of the F.O.]]'' (1959), focusing on diplomacy.

The Boultings took on increasingly powerful trade unions and ever corrupt board room power with ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1959), a sequel to ''Private's Progress'' with Carmichael, Thomas and Attenborough reprising their roles, and Harvey co-writing. The film featured a performance by [[Peter Sellers]] as trade union foreman Fred Kite. It was the most popular film at the British box office in 1959.<ref>FOUR BRITISH FILMS IN 'TOP 6': BOULTING COMEDY HEADS BOX OFFICE LIST Our own Reporter. The Guardian (1959-2003) [London (UK)] 11 December 1959: 4.</ref> ''[[Suspect (1960 film)|Suspect]]'' (1960) was a return to the thriller genre for the brothers. ''[[A French Mistress]]'' (1960) was a comedy farce. ''[[Heavens Above!]]'' (1963) looked at religion in Britain, starring Sellers and Carmichael. It was a minor hit.<ref>The Times, 3 January 1964, page 4: ''Most Popular Films of 1963'' - found in The Times Digital Archive 2012-07-11</ref> ''[[Rotten to the Core (film)|Rotten to the Core]]'' (1965) was a heist comedy which attempted to make a star of [[Anton Rodgers]] in a Peter Sellers-type role, playing multiple parts. It featured a young [[Charlotte Rampling]].

===Hayley Mills===
The Boultings directed and produced the northern comedy ''[[The Family Way]]'' (1966), starring [[John Mills]] and his teenage daughter Hayley. Roy Boulting and [[Hayley Mills]] began a relationship during the shoot despite a 33-year age difference; they married in 1971.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106957350 |title=LEISURE-THE ARTS New star for UK films |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=17 January 1967 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Roy wrote and directed ''[[Twisted Nerve]]'' (1968), a thriller starring Mills and [[Hywel Bennett]]. The brothers had a massive hit with ''[[There's a Girl in My Soup]]'' (1970) starring Sellers and [[Goldie Hawn]]. Roy was called in to replace the director on ''[[Mr. Forbush and the Penguins]]'' (1971), and he brought in Mills to star. The movie was not successful. Neither was the comedy ''[[Soft Beds, Hard Battles]]'' (1974) made by the brothers starring Peter Sellers. Roy Boulting lost a considerable amount of money on the film.<ref name="hello">{{cite web|url=http://us.hellomagazine.com/film/2001/11/07/royboulting/|title=CLASSIC SIXTIES DIRECTOR ROY BOULTING LOSES BATTLE WITH|website=us.hellomagazine.com}}</ref> In 1975, Roy was working on a stage play, ''The Family Games''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/hayley-mills-28-and-roy-boulting-61-pollyanna-never-had-it-so-happy-vol-3-no-14/|title=Hayley Mills, 28, and Roy Boulting, 61: Pollyanna Never Had It So Happy – Vol. 3 No. 14|date=14 April 1975}}</ref> He worked on the script for ''[[The Kingfisher Caper]]'' (1975), starring Mills.

===Later career===
In the US, Roy directed ''[[The Last Word (1979 film)|The Last Word]]'' (1979), a comedy starring [[Richard Harris]] that was barely seen. When John died of cancer in 1985, Roy stopped making films. His last credit was directing an episode of the ''[[Miss Marple (TV series)|Miss Marple]]'' series for TV, ''[[The Moving Finger]]'' (1985). He was working on an adaptation of [[Terence Rattigan]]'s play ''Deja Vu'' when he died.<ref name="hello"/> When the National Film Theatre mounted its biggest retrospective to date of British cinema in the late 1980s, Roy who launched it, introduced ''Desert Victory''. The Boulting Brother's films have been described as being "a sensitive barometer of the changing times".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/nov/07/news3|title = Obituary: Roy Boulting| website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date = 7 November 2001}}</ref>

==Personal lives==
John Boulting was married four times. He had six children: two sons by his first marriage; three daughters by his second. He also had a third son.<ref name=odnb/><ref name="fdb">{{cite web |last1=Burton |first1=Alan |title=The Boultings (John and Roy) |url=http://filmdope.com/forums/116377-boultings-john-roy.html |website=filmdope.com |publisher=Britmovie - Home of British Films |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> With his first wife, Veronica, daughter of Irish barrister, John Craig Nelson Davidson,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davidson |first1=John Craig Nelson |title=News of the Week |journal=The Irish Jurist and Local Government Review |date=30 December 1904 |volume=V |issue=8 |page=63 |jstor=44514528 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44514528 |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> he had sons Norris (b. 1941) and Nicholas (b. 1943).<ref name="jwj">{{cite web |title=Birth Records: Surname, Boulting; Mother's Surname, Davidson |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.motherSurname=Davidson&q.motherSurname.exact=on&q.surname=Boulting&q.surname.exact=on&c.birthLikePlace1=on&f.birthLikePlace0=9 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref> Norris is the father of TV presenter and journalist [[Ned Boulting]].<ref name="jwn">{{cite web |title=Marriage Records: Norris CR Boulting to Juliet Richardson |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.marriageLikeDate.from=1965&q.marriageLikeDate.to=1970&q.spouseSurname=Richardson&q.spouseSurname.exact=on&q.surname=Boulting&q.surname.exact=on |website=FamilySearch}}</ref><ref name="jwned">{{cite web |title=Birth Records: Surname, Boulting; Mother's Surname, Richardson |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.givenName=Norris&q.motherSurname=Richardson&q.motherSurname.exact=on&q.surname=Boulting&q.surname.exact=on&c.birthLikePlace1=on&f.birthLikePlace0=9 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref> With his second wife, Jacqueline (Jackie), he had three daughters: Jody, Emma & Lucy;<ref name="db1">{{cite web |title=John Boulting - Family |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099589/bio?ref_=nm_pdt_sp_sm#family |website=Internet Movie Database (IMDb)}}</ref> the last of whom, Lucy Boulting Hill, has become a successful [[casting director]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099591/|title=Lucy Boulting|website=IMDb|access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref> John's grandson, Jordan Stephens (son of Emma), is one half of British hip hop duo [[Rizzle Kicks]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Duerden|first1=Nick|title=Rizzle Kicks interview: The Brighton boys are on a roll|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rizzle-kicks-interview-the-brighton-boys-are-on-a-roll-9640258.html|work=The Independent|date=31 July 2014}}</ref>

Roy Boulting was married five times. He had seven children, all sons: two by his second marriage; three by his third; one through his relationship with Victoria Vaughan; and one by his fourth.<ref name=odnb/> With his second wife, Jean Capon (née Gamage),<ref name=fdb/> he had sons Jonathan (b. 1944) and Laurence (b. 1945),<ref name="dbr">{{cite web |title=Roy Boulting - Family |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099592/bio?ref_=nm_pdt_sp_sm#family |website=Internet Movie Database (IMDb) |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref name="jw">{{cite web |title=Birth Records: Surname, Boulting; Mother's Surname, Gamage |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.birthLikePlace=United%20Kingdom&q.birthLikePlace.exact=on&q.motherSurname=Gamage&q.motherSurname.exact=on&q.surname=Boulting&q.surname.exact=on&c.birthLikePlace1=on&f.birthLikePlace0=9 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> the latter becoming a successful film producer and director in his own right.<ref name="dbl">{{cite web |title=Laurence Boulting |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099590/?ref_=nmawd_awd_nm |website=Internet Movie Database (IMDb) |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> With his second marriage, in March 1951, to Enid Munnik (née Groenewald/Grünewald),<ref name="esat">{{cite web |title=Enid Grünewald |url=https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Enid_Grünewald |website=The Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT) |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> he had three children: first, Fitzroy (b. 1951); then identical twins Edmund and Rupert (b. 1952).<ref>{{cite web|title=Enid Boulting with her children Fitzroy, Edmund and Rupert|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw83243/Enid-Boulting-with-her-children-Fitzroy-Edmund-and-Rupert?LinkID=mp68010&role=sit&rNo=2|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=28 January 2018}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1964. Enid, an established fashion model and later fashion editor at the French magazine ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', later married the 9th [[Earl of Hardwicke]]) in April 1970.<ref>{{cite web|title=Earl Weds Mrs. Enid Boulting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/29/archives/earl-weds-mrs-enid-boulting.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=28 January 2018|date=29 April 1970}}</ref> The model and actress [[Ingrid Boulting]] is Enid's daughter from her first marriage, to Cornelius Munnik.<ref name=esat/>

Following his split with his third wife, Roy entered into a relationship with another fashion model, Victoria Vaughan.<ref name="vv1">{{cite web |last1=Vaughan |first1=Victoria |title=Model Victoria Vaughan stops traffic in london wearing a suit designed by Mary Quant |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-model-victoria-vaughan-stops-traffic-in-london-wearing-a-suit-designed-19539050.html |website=Alamy |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref name="vv2">{{cite web |last1=Vaughan |first1=Victoria |title=Cover - Woman's Mirror Magazine May 1962 |url=https://magazinecanteen.com/products/womans-mirror-magazine-victoria-vaughan |website=Magazine Canteen |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> They had one son together. The relationship ended with his involvement with [[Hayley Mills]]. In 1971, Roy married, for the fourth time, Hayley Mills, 33 years his junior, whom he had met on the set of ''[[The Family Way]]''. Their son is musician and filmmaker [[Crispian Mills]]. The couple separated in 1975, and divorced in 1977.<ref name=odnb/> His fifth and final marriage, in October 1978, was to actress [[Sandra Payne]].<ref name=fdb/> They divorced in 1984.

==Deaths==
John Boulting died on 17 June 1985 at his home in [[Sunningdale]], Berkshire, and Roy Boulting 16 years later on 5 November 2001 in the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Oxford]]; both died of cancer.<ref name=odnb/>

== In popular culture ==
A still from ''[[The Family Way]]'' was used for [[The Smiths]] single "[[I Started Something I Couldn't Finish]]".

==Filmography==

===Films directed jointly===
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*''[[Seven Days to Noon]]'' (1950)
*''[[Suspect (1960 film)|Suspect / The Risk]]'' (1960)
*''[[Heavens Above!]]'' (1963)
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===Films directed by John===
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*''[[Journey Together]]'' (1945)
*''[[Brighton Rock (1948 film)|Brighton Rock]]'' (1948)
*''[[The Magic Box]]'' (1951)
*''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956)
*''[[Lucky Jim (film)|Lucky Jim]]'' (1957)
*''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1959)
*''[[Rotten to the Core (film)|Rotten to the Core]]'' (1965)
{{div col end}}

===Films directed by Roy===
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*''[[Trunk Crime]]'' (1939)
*''[[Inquest (1939 film)|Inquest]]'' (1939)
*''[[Pastor Hall]]'' (1940)
*''[[Thunder Rock (film)|Thunder Rock]]'' (1942)
*''[[Tunisian Victory]]'' (1944, documentary co-directed with [[Frank Capra]])
*''[[Fame is the Spur (film)|Fame is the Spur]]'' (1947)
*''[[The Guinea Pig (film)|The Guinea Pig / The Outsider]]'' (1948)
*''[[High Treason (1951 film)|High Treason]]'' (1951)
*''[[Sailor of the King|Single-Handed / Sailor of the King]]'' (1953)
*''[[Seagulls Over Sorrento|Seagulls Over Sorrento / Crest of the Wave]]'' (1954)
*''[[Josephine and Men]]'' (1955)
*''[[Run for the Sun]]'' (1956)
*''[[Brothers in Law (film)|Brothers in Law]]'' (1957)
*''[[Happy Is the Bride]]'' (1958)
*''[[Carlton-Browne of the FO|Carleton-Browne of the FO / Man in a Cocked Hat]]'' (1959)
*''[[A French Mistress]]'' (1960)
*''[[The Family Way]]'' (1966)
*''[[Twisted Nerve]]'' (1968)
*''[[There's a Girl in My Soup]]'' (1970)
*''[[Mr. Forbush and the Penguins|Mr. Forbush and the Penguins / Cry of the Penguins]]'' (1971)
*''[[Soft Beds, Hard Battles]]'' (1973)
*''The Number / [[The Last Word (1979 film)|The Last Word]]'' (1979)
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Burton Alan, O'Sullivan Tim, Wells Paul; Eds. 2000. ''The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture''. Trowbridge: Flicks Books. {{ISBN|0-948911-59-X}}

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