Tom Pevsner

{{Short description|British film producer and assistant director (1926–2014)}}

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| birthname = Thomas Pevsner

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|10|2}}

| birth_place = Dresden, German Reich

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2014|8|18|1926|10|2}}

| death_place = Fife, Scotland

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge

| occupation = Assistant film director and producer

| father = Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

| mother = Lola Pevsner

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| nationality = British

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| years_active = 1953–95

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Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.

He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.{{cite book|author=Stephen Games|title=Pevsner – the early life: Germany and Art|year=2010|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-1-4411-4386-0|page=6}}

Pevsner served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge."Tripos Results at Cambridge", The Times Educational Supplement, 24 June 1949, p. 428. At Cambridge he edited The Cambridge Review, and was a member of the St John's College Film Society and the undergraduate committee of the Cambridge Film Society, where he served alongside Otto Plaschkes and Michael Birkett.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/16/guardianobituaries |title=Otto Plaschkes; Film producer uncompromising in his honesty and passion |work=The Guardian|author=David Robinson |date=15 February 2005 |accessdate=13 March 2015 }} After graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsykBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA119|author=Richard Mayne|title=The Copper Stick |year=2015|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78462-280-0|page=119}}

Tom Pevsner's notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula (1979).{{cite news|title=Executive producer Tom Pevsner has died|url=http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=11475|accessdate=26 August 2014}} He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.{{cite web|url=http://oscar.go.com/photos/2015-oscars-in-memoriam/media/pevsner_tom_associate_producer_assistant_director |title=In Memoriam |publisher=Academy Awards|date=22 February 2015 |accessdate=13 March 2015 }}