British Lion Management

Peter Snell was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Following his graduation from the University of British Columbia, he moved to London.

His early years in the film industry were devoted to the production of Shakespeare films, The Winter's Tale, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.

Snell was appointed Head of Production and subsequently Managing Director of British Lion Films, one of England's oldest motion picture companies, founded in 1927. During his term of office he was responsible for revitalizing British Lion's UK distribution arm and for the production of the widely acclaimed Don't Look Now starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie and the cult classic The Wicker Man.

British Lion was sold to EMI Films for the value of its film library.

Snell returned to independent production with Alistair MacLean's Bear Island for Columbia Pictures starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins and Lloyd Bridges. He then produced Hennessy starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick, and Hostage Tower, with Peter Fonda and Britt Ekland. Snell then acted as Executive Producer on Charlton Heston's Motherlode, starring Kim Basinger, Tom Stoppard's Squaring the Circle, and Turtle Diary starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley, based on a screenplay by Harold Pinter. In the same year he produced Lady Jane for Paramount Pictures, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes and Patrick Stewart.

Snell went on to produce A Prayer For the Dying, based on the novel by Jack Higgins, starring Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates and Liam Neeson, followed by Tears in the Rain starring Sharon Stone. Snell then bought British Lion from Thorne/EMI and acted as Executive Producer for British Lion on A Man For All Seasons starring Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir John Gielgud, Treasure Island with Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed and Christhoper Lee and the Sherlock Holmes thriller The Crucifer of Blood.

Snell then produced Alistair MacLean's Death Train for British Lion starring Pierce Brosnan, the first of a series of motion pictures based on new MacLean storylines, followed by the second in the series, Night Watch, again starring Brosnan. He then produced Letters From a Killer starring Patrick Swayze.

Snell intends to recapitalize British Lion in order to return to financing its own films and build a new library.