28.08.1895 - 05.01.1979 (83 years) (Calcutta, West Bengal, India)
R.J. Minney (1895-1979) was a British film producer, journalist, editor and author. He was author of over 40 books including novels, biographies and histories and other books. As a film-maker and film producer he worked with British film companies such as Gainsborough Pictures and was invited to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck. He wrote successful plays. He was also a journalist in India and in London and was editor of several newspapers, including during World War II. He was also a Labour Party candidate and came close to unseating Edward Heath in the safe Conservative Bexley constituency in 1955.