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Methodist Church should provide a solution for the problem. It was at that moment; J. Arthur Rank committed himself to take up the challenge. Rank, together with a young film producer named John Corfield and Lady Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood, soon formed the British
In 1954, the Radio and Film Commission of the Methodist Church in Britain, in cooperation with J. Arthur Rank, produced the film John Wesley. The film was a live-action re-telling of the story of the life of John Wesley, with Leonard Sachs as John Wesley and Curigwen Lewis as Susanna Wesley.
Founder of the Rank Organisation. Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22/23 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was an English industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation .
Today this is the Rank Foundation, with the triple aims of encouraging and developing leadership among young people, supporting the disadvantaged, the frail and the elderly - and, as from the very beginning of the Rank empire, promoting Christian principles through film.
(Produced by the Radio and Film Commission of the Methodist Church in cooperation with J. Arthur Rank.) Beau Brummell. When young John Wesley is saved from the flames burning his...
John Wesley is a 1954 British historical film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leonard Sachs, Neil Heayes and Keith Pyott. It depicts the life of the father of Methodism, John Wesley. The film was financed by J. Arthur Rank, a prominent Methodist layman, and with contributions from the church.
Established by J. Arthur Rank in 1937. J. Arthur Rank had inherited his father's flour milling business, but his interests laid elsewhere. He was a man of strong Methodist belief and taught in a Sunday school where he would regularly show religious films.
