Monja Danischewsky

Birthday: 28 April 1911, Archangel, Russia

Birth Name: Monja John Danischewsky

Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919 due to the civil war raging in the country at the time. He started working as a publicity director at Ealing in 1938, helping dev ...Show More

Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919 due to the civil war raging in the country at the time. He started working as a publicity director at Ealing in 1938, helping develop and design many of the company's posters. In 1943 he turned his hand to scriptwriting. His first produced screenplay was Undercover (1943). In 1949 he produced Ealing's classic Whisky Galore! (1949). He left Ealing to work independently as a producer, turning out such films as The Galloping Major (1951).Danischewsky returned to Ealing in the mid-'50s as a writer and producer, working with Michael Relph on Rockets Galore (1958) and Charles Crichton on The Battle of the Sexes (1960). His last film as a producer was Two and Two Make Six (1962), and his final screenwriting credit was Mister Moses (1965). In 1966 his autobiography, "White Russian, Red Face", was published. His later work was in television. Hide