Filippo Del Giudice

Filippo Del Giudice (26 March 1892 – 1 January 1963), born in Trani, Italy, was an Italian film producer, as well as being a lawyer and legal advisor and film producer.

Life In December 1932, Giudice fled from Italy to England in order to avoid imprisonment for his political beliefs. Anti-Semitic legislation, introduced later, would have caused him still more problems had he stayed in Italy; his production company wasn't allowed to film there because it was believed the board was operated by Jewish people.

Giudice didn't know English when he arrived in Britain; he taught himself, by his own account poorly, while teaching the children of Italian waiters in Soho. After the release of the 1939 film French Without Tears (based on a play by Terence Rattigan) and the 1940 anti-Nazi film Freedom Radio, Giudice and Zampi were interned in 1940 as 'enemy aliens'. He was later released from internment to work on the 1942 film In Which We Serve, which was written by Noël Coward. During this period, Giudice produced the 1944 film Mr. Emmanuel, which is the only World War II film with a Jewish subject.

In 1963, he died in Florence on New Year's Day.

Production filmography French Without Tears (1939) The First of the Few (1942) In Which We Serve (1942) This Happy Breed (1944) Mr. Emmanuel (1944) Henry V (1944) The Way to the Stars (1945) Men of Two Worlds (1946) Odd Man Out (1947) Hamlet (1948)