investing in a third of the feature films made in the UK during 1984. By 1987, Channel 4 had an interest in half the films being made in the United Kingdom. Rose remained in his post as Commissioning Editor until March 1990. Rose is credited by many as being a significant figure in the regeneration of British cinema and particularly remembered for films such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Wish You Were Here, Dance With a Stranger, Mona Lisa, and Letter to Brezhnev. Mike Leigh told writer Hannah Rothschild around 2008 that Film on Four had saved the British film industry: "This is a non-negotiable, historical fact of life and anybody who suggests that this isn’t the case is simply either suffering from some kind of ignorance or has got some terrible chip." Of the 150 films Rose backed, 20 were from overseas sources, including work by directors Theo Angelopoulos, Andrei Tarkovsky and Wim Wenders. David Rose was awarded a special prize for services to the cinema at Cannes in 1987. This was followed by the gold medal of the Royal Television Society in 1988 and, in April 2010, the BFI Fellowship, whose other recipients include Martin Scorsese and Orson Welles. References External links 1924 births 2017 deaths BBC television producers British television producers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II