Career
In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis. The couple were then hired by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios. They disapproved of the Gainsborough melodramas which had been the studio"s major success in the previous few years and switched production to a broader range of more "realistic" films with mixed results.
Gainsborough was merged into the Rank Organisation in 1949.
Box ended his cinema career in 1958 to concentrate on television work. Box was part of a consortium that launched Tyne Tees Television in 1959.
