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Michael Deeley

British film producer (born 1932)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Michael Deeley is a British film producer. He is known for producing films such as The Italian Job (1969), The Deer Hunter (1978), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Blade Runner (1982). He is also a founding member and Honorary President of the British Screen Forum.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Michael Deeley” is british film producer (born 1932). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Michael, Deeley and British, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1978, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Michael, Deeley and British is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “british film producer (born 1932)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1978 and 1982.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Deeley” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.