 After serving an apprenticeship as assistant or second unit director on about 20 films (several for Ralph Thomas) from the early '60s to the early '80s, Simon Relph turned to producing. His name appears as (co-)producer on some key films, including The Ploughman's Lunch (d. Richard Eyre, 1983) and Comrades (d. Bill Douglas, 1986), but his most valuable work was as chief executive officer of British Screen, which, along with Channel 4, "kept the British film industry alive in the 1980s" (BFI's Film and Television Handbook, 1992). In the early 1990s, he fought hard to persuade the Government to extend its funding of British Screen by five years, and won a three-year extension. Behind the scenes in these ways, he exerted an important influence on low-budget British film-making for over a decade. He is the son of Michael Relph and the grandson of George Relph .Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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