 Formerly President of Polygram Filmed Entertainment which he joined when it was set up in 1992, then holding a similar role with the London-based activities of Universal Pictures, Stewart Till has been an influential figure in film distribution and production since the early '90s. Like Alan Parker (Till is his Deputy Chairman on the UK Film Council), he began in advertising, and has a strong sense of the need to sell films. He has been associated with the distribution of such successes as Four Weddings and a Funeral (d. Mike Newell, 1994), but was also co-executive producer on the darker, less obviously box-office titles, Jude (1996), I Want You (1998) and Wonderland (1999), three masterly films directed by Michael Winterbottom, which must have taxed Till's commercial instincts. He was awarded a CBE in 2000. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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