Gavrik Losey is an American

United States

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 born key participant in various aspects of filmmaking

Filmmaking

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 including producer

Film producer

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 and production manager.
Gavrik was born in New York

New York

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, the son of film director

Film director

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 Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...

 and fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes

Elizabeth Hawes

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. He attended the Little Red SchoolHouse in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie

Poughkeepsie (town), New York

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, and high school in New Jersey

New Jersey

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. After graduating, he travelled with his blacklisted father to England

England

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 where he attended University College London

University College London

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.

Career

In 1966, he served as first assistant director on his father’s Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise

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, which starred Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp

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 and Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

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. A year later he produced The Beatles

The Beatles

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' television movie

Television movie

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 Magical Mystery Tour

Magical Mystery Tour (film)

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and a year after that worked as production manager on Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson

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's If….

In the 1970 film Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

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, starring Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

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, he was production supervisor, a task he revisited the following year in Melody

Melody

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, featuring former Oliver!

Oliver!

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child actors Mark Lester

Mark Lester

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 and Jack Wild

Jack Wild

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, and Villain

Villain

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starring Richard Burton

Richard Burton

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, Ian McShane

Ian McShane

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 and Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden CBE is an English actor of theatre, film and television.-Personal life:Sinden was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, on 9 October 1923. The son of Alfred Edward Sinden and his wife Mabel Agnes , he grew up in the Sussex village of Ditchling, where their home doubled as the...

. His associate producer work includes 1973's That’ll Be The Day, directed by Claude Whatham

Claude Whatham

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, its 1974 sequel

Sequel

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 Stardust

Stardust (1974 film)

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, directed by Michael Apted

Michael Apted

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, and 1972’s Fear is the Key

Fear is the Key

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which featured a young Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

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. In 1975, he produced Slade in Flame. In 1977, he went uncredited as production consultant on The Disappearance starring Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...

. Shortly after, he was production associate on The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 American drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis, and Win Wells loosely based on Aristotle Onassis and his relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy.-Plot:...

starring Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

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 and Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset

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. Then, in 1979, he produced Agatha

Agatha (film)

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starring Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

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, again directed by Michael Apted.

In 1981, he produced the American documentary film

Documentary film

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 Dance Craze

Dance Craze

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and in 1988, served as executive producer

Executive producer

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 on Taffin

Taffin

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.

Since 1999, Losey has been involved in teaching at Bristol University as a part-time lecturer on film production and theory and is an honorary fellow of Exeter University.

Private life

Losey lives in Somerset, England with his wife, a writer. They have two daughters. He has two sons, Marek

Marek Losey

Marek Losey is a British-American film director and the third generation of film maker in the Losey family.-Background and early life:...

 and Luke

Luke Losey

Luke Losey is an award winning film director, lighting designer and photographer. His visually arresting work has been seen in avant-garde, theatre and mainstream media.- Background and early life :...

, from a previous marriage, both of whom are film-makers.

External links

• Gavrik Losey at IMDB