Lawrence P. Williams Explained

Birth Name:	Lawrence Paul Williams
Birth Date:	10 August 1905
Birth Place:	Slough, Buckinghamshire, England
Death Place:	Chinnor, South Oxfordshire, England
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1929–1947
Spouse:
Children:	1

Lawrence Paul Williams (10 August 1905 – 8 October 1996) was a British motion picture art director.

Biography

Lawrence P. Williams was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire) on 10 August 1905.^[1]

He married actress Queenie Leonard on 11 December 1936. The two divorced in 1947, and he remarried to Margaret Veda Elaine "Peggy" Garratt on 1 August of that year. They remained married until her death in 1990.^[1]

Williams died in Chinnor, South Oxfordshire on 8 October 1996, after a short illness.^[1]

Filmography

• So Well Remembered (1947)
• Brief Encounter (1945) (as L.P. Williams)
• Forever and a Day (1943) (uncredited)
• Sunny (1941)
• No, No, Nanette (1940) (as L.P. Williams)
• Irene (1940) (as L.P. Williams)
• Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
• Sixty Glorious Years (1938) (as L.P. Williams)
• A Yank at Oxford (1938) (as L.P. Williams)
• Victoria the Great (1937)
• Our Fighting Navy (1937)
• The Queen's Affair (1934)
• Nell Gwyn (1934) (as L.P. Williams)
• Yes, Mr. Brown (1933) (as L.P. Williams)
• The King's Cup (1933)
• Thark (1932)
• A Night Like This (1932)
• Plunder (1931)
• Carnival (1931) (as L. P. Williams)
• The Speckled Band (1931) (as L.P. Williams)
• Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
• School for Scandal (1930)
• Tons of Money (1930)
• On Approval (1930)
• Wolves (1930)

Art department

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) (associate art director) (as L.P. Williams)
• Tom Brown's School Days (1940) (associate art director) (as L.P. Williams)
• Vigil in the Night (1940) (associate art director) (as L.P. Williams)
• The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) (assistant art director)
• The Woman in White (1929) (assistant art director)
• The Bondman (1929) (assistant art director)
• When Knights Were Bold (1929) (assistant art director)

External links

• • Art & Design in The British Film #30- Lawrence Paul Williams

Notes and References

1. 63301 . Catherine A. . Surowiec . Williams, Lawrence Paul [Bill].