Tom Pevsner

Pevsner served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he edited The Cambridge Review, and was a member of the St John's College Film Society and the undergraduate committee of the Cambridge Film Society, where he served alongside Otto Plaschkes and Michael Birkett. After graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation. Notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula (1979). He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner. In 1962 he directed the West German film The Constant Wife. He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.

• Name — Tom Pevsner • Birth Name — Thomas Pevsner • Born — 2 October 1926 • Birthplace — Dresden, German Reich • Died — 18 August 2014 • Place of death — Fife, Scotland • Education — University of Cambridge • Occupation — Assistant film director and producer • Father — Sir Nikolaus Pevsner • Mother — Lola Pevsner • Years Active — 1953–95