The Life Story of David Lloyd George

For the 1981 BBC television drama serial, see The Life and Times of David Lloyd George.

The Life Story of David Lloyd George
Directed byMaurice Elvey
Written bySidney Low
StarringNorman Page
Alma Reville
Ernest Thesiger
Douglas Munro
Production
company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • 1996 (1996)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Life Story of David Lloyd George (originally titled The Man Who Saved The Empire)[1][2][3] is a 1918 British silent biopic film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman Page, Alma Reville and Ernest Thesiger. The film "is thought to be the first feature length biopic of a contemporary living politician".[4] Finished in 1918, it was not shown publicly until 1996.

  1. ^ Sarah Barrow, John White: Fifty Key British Films, Routledge 2012, page 8 Linked 2015-03-18
  2. ^ Rachael Low: The History of British Film (Volume 3): The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918, Routledge 2013, page 93 Linked 2015-03-18
  3. ^ William D. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan 2011, page 831 Linked 2015-03-18
  4. ^ "2010 UK Memory of the World Register Archived 3 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine", United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO, 2010. Accessed 4 June 2011.