{{Short description|British film producer}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Marcel Hellman | image = | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1898|05|31}} | birth_place = Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1986|04|28|1898|05|31}} | death_place = United Kingdom | othername = | occupation = producer | years_active = 1928–1965 }}
'''Marcel Hellman''' (31 May 1898 – 28 April 1986) was a Romanian-born British film producer, who worked closely with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Harold French.
In 1936 he founded Criterion Film Productions together with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., which produced four films with Fairbanks in the lead, and in 1942 he started a production company known as ''Excelsior Films Ltd'', which in the late 1950s changed name to ''Marcel Hellman Productions''.
==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Secret Courier'' (1928) * ''The Last Fort'' (1928) * ''Father and Son'' (1929) * ''The Green Monocle'' (1929) * ''Everybody Wins'' (1930) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * ''Headfirst into Happiness'' (1931) * ''{{Interlanguage link|Mélo (1932 film)|fr|3=Mélo (film, 1932)|lt=Mélo}}'' (1932) * ''Dreaming Lips'' (1932) * ''The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * ''The Amateur Gentleman'' (1936) * ''Accused'' (1936) * ''Crime Over London'' (1936) * ''Jump for Glory'' (1937) * ''Jeannie'' (1941) * ''Secret Mission'' (1942) * ''Talk About Jacqueline'' (1942) * ''They Met in the Dark'' (1943) * ''A Voice in the Night'' (1946) * ''Meet Me at Dawn'' (1947) * ''This Was a Woman'' (1948) * ''Happy Go Lovely'' (1951) * ''Duel in the Jungle'' (1954) * ''Let's Be Happy'' (1957) * ''North West Frontier'' (1959)<ref name="nine">{{cite magazine|date=27 June 2025|access-date=27 June 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1959|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1959/}}</ref> * ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' (1965) {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0375487}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20200222144055/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa08c453 Marcel Hellman] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}} *[https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00739/00739-P.html Marcel Hellman Papers] at University of Texas {{Authority control}}
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