William c faure biography

William C. Faure (b. Pretoria, 17/07/ – d.

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Johannesburg, 18/10/) was a producer and director. Also credited as Bill Faure.

Biography

William Caldwell Faure was born and raised in Pretoria, where he attended Pretoria Boys’ High School. After doing his military service he worked for SABC Radio as a production assistant and then joined the staff of the National Film Board of South Africa.

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In he enrolled at the London Film School, where Pieter-Dirk Uys was a contemporary. Upon completion of the course his final year thesis was published by Studio Vista as Images of Violence (). Upon his return to South Africa in February , he joined the SABC as an editor (he was the editor of Manie van Rensburg’s Oom Willem en die Lord/), but as the organisation began to produce material for the belated launch of television in , he soon became one of the foremost producers of documentaries for the English Service, as well as of stage spectaculars like the ballets Carmen and El