Edward Godal

Edward Godal
Occupation(s)	Film director and producer
Years active	1916–38

Edward Godal was a British film producer and director. During World War I Godal ran a training school for actors.^[1] He became a leading independent producer of British films after the war, becoming managing director of the small but ambitious British & Colonial, based at Walthamstow Studios from 1918 to 1924.^[2] He later became involved with plans to make colour films at the newly built Elstree Studios and a proposed big-budget adaptation of an H. G. Wells novel, neither of which came to anything.^[3] His producing career largely ended with the arrival of sound in 1929, and he made only one further film, in 1938.