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  Douglas Gresham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Douglas Gresham (born November, 1945) is a British biographer and film producer.
He is the son of Joy Gresham and stepson of Anglo-Irish author C.
Gresham is co-producer for the new series of film adaptations of the Chronicles of Narnia, the originals of which were written by his stepfather.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Gresham   (122 words)

  
 Interviews: Douglas Gresham - Christianity Today Movies
Douglas Gresham has dreamed of seeing Aslan on the big screen since he was a little boy.
Gresham, stepson to LWW author C. Lewis, was a co-producer of the film, representing his stepfather and the Lewis estate throughout the process—the writing of the script, the making of the movie, and even the merchandising of the spinoff products, including the toys for McDonald's Happy Meals.
Gresham: Jack's problem with cinema was that he could see this wonderful technology emerging and developing, and he was worried about the uses to which it was being put.
www.christianitytoday.com /movies/interviews/douglasgresham2.html   (1930 words)

  
 Douglas Gresham, co-producer The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : ABC Northern Tasmania
Douglas Gresham, co-producer The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : ABC Northern Tasmania
Douglas Gresham, co-producer The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Douglas Gresham, or Don, as he was known when he worked at 7NT (he adopted Don during his time at the 7 television network in Perth, WA, where there were already two Doug’s on the air), worked in Launceston in the mid-1970s.
www.abc.net.au /northtas/stories/s1417238.htm   (530 words)

  
 BookPage Interview March 1999: Douglas Gresham
Gresham attended a couple of Inklings meetings as a child, listening in a quiet corner "while they had these great, raucous debates," and he emphasizes that these now-legendary meetings also included a great deal of laughter.
Once his laughter subsides, Gresham mentions several claimants who insist they possess the actual wardrobe, but "the fact of the matter is that [none of these] stimulated the book; it was merely a convenient ploy to transport Lucy into Narnia.
Gresham's homebase is in Ireland, where he and his wife operate a Christian mission, among other commitments.
www.bookpage.com /9903bp/douglas_gresham.html   (1157 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - C.S. Lewis' stepson keeps 'Jack's' magic alive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gresham, who is a stepson of C.S. Lewis, the celebrated writer of the Narnia series and religious scholar, is the co-producer of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Gresham met Lewis, the man known as Jack to family and friends, in 1953, three years after the publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of seven books in the Narnia series.
Gresham, 8 years old, already had read the book when he traveled from the USA to Britain with his mother, Joy Davidman Gresham, who had developed a friendship with Lewis.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-12-07-narnia-gresham_x.htm   (781 words)

  
 Focus on the Family Magazine: In Lenten Lands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Douglas’ father was also a heavy drinker and violent drunk, once smashing a guitar into kindling when he couldn’t master a certain musical piece on it.
Douglas was away at Lapley Grange, a boarding school in Wales, when on June 20, 1959, he was summoned home because his mother was deathly ill. Again, he went to the small churchyard.
Douglas went on with his life, having middling success at school and sent by Jack, against his will, to work on a farm in Somerset owned by Sir Edward Malet.
www.family.org /fofmag/cl/a0023948.cfm   (1907 words)

  
 Douglas Gresham In Lenten Lands
Douglas Gresham was born in New York City in November 1945 to William and Helen Joy Gresham.
Douglas’ father was also a heavy drinker and violent drunk, once smashing a guitar into kindling when he couldn’t master a certain musical piece on it.
Douglas was away at Lapley Grange, a boarding school in Wales, when on June 20, 1959, he was summoned home because his mother was deathly ill. Again, he went to the small churchyard.
www.mrrena.com /2001/Lewis.shtml   (1767 words)

  
 Douglas Greschem - Narnia and C.S. Lewis - Liveblogging
Douglas Greschem - Narnia and C.S. Lewis - Liveblogging
Gresham: A faithful husband is not a man who believes his wife exists, these are people who live out their duty to their wives every hour of everyday.
Gresham: A Grief Observed was not intended to be a published work, but it was simply a journal that Lewis used to get his thoughts out.
homepage.mac.com /bdebow/iblog/C758111039/E1034731700   (1590 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | 'Narnia' author's world revealed
Douglas Gresham, the stepson of C.S Lewis and co-producer of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
Douglas Gresham, 60, is co-producer of the film adaptation of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which opens Dec. 9.
Gresham recently spoke at the third annual C.S. Lewis Festival in this northern Michigan town, where schools, churches and community groups paid tribute to the beloved British author, scholar of medieval literature and Christian apologist.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635163654,00.html   (937 words)

  
 Narnia film preserves author's values, says stepson of C.S. Lewis
As stepson Douglas Gresham tells it, Lewis was strolling around his English country homestead with his wife, the American writer Joy Davidman Gresham, when an apparent Robin Hood imitator sprang from the bushes brandishing a bow and arrow.
Gresham, 60, is co-producer of the film adaptation of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," scheduled for U.S. release Dec. 9.
Gresham, wanting no part of America's culture wars, says some characters and events could be interpreted as Christians symbols.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1115narnia1115.html   (1198 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Son of American novelist W. Gresham (Nightmare Alley), seven-year-old Douglas went to England in 1952 and, with his recently divorced mother, Joy Davidman, moved in with Lewis, who married her in 1956, when she appeared to be dying of cancer.
Lenten Lands is the autobiography of Douglas Gresham.
Gresham was eight years old when his mother divorced her first husband in America and took him and his brother to live in England.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060634472   (1392 words)

  
 Narnia Movies, C.S. Lewis, and More - The Stone Table - Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis's Stepson, Shares Insights at ...
Douglas Gresham, C. Lewis's stepson, spoke this past Tuesday at North Central Michigan College, lending some insights and anecdotes of his relationship with Lewis.
Gresham said their Scrabble rules dictated they could use words from any known language, real or fictional.
Gresham added Lewis was a man who loved to write and would write with a dip pen.
www.thestonetable.com /articles/245,1.html   (567 words)

  
 C.S. Lewis Festival - Petoskey, Michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Doug Gresham is perhaps best known as the second son of Joy Gresham, the woman who captured the heart of C. Lewis late in his life (as depicted in the 1993 film Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger).
By the age of eighteen, Douglas was orphaned and on his own.
Gresham chronicles the story of his childhood and youth with Joy and Jack in the memoir Lenten Lands, published in 1988.
www.cslewisfestival.org /descriptions/2005/Gresham.htm   (311 words)

  
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Gresham explains that his memoir of Lewis is not a scholarly work filled with academic analysis, but a "simple recounting of the story of what I believe to be the extraordinary life of extraordinary man."
Douglas Gresham was born in 1945, the second son of novelist William Gresham and poet/novelist Joy Davidman Gresham.
Douglas continued to live with Lewis and says Lewis was never the same after Joy’s death.
www.cbn.com /700club/guests/bios/douglas_gresham110305.asp   (737 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lenten Lands: My Childhood With Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis: Books: Douglas H. Gresham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gresham's desolution at Lewis's death in 1963, his courtship and marriage, and his roustabout life in Australia provide a poignant coda to the story of his childhood.
Lenten Lands is the autobiography of Douglas Gresham, the stepson of the famous writer, C. Lewis.
Gresham is a very good writer and you get a feel for what it was like to grow up in England in the 1950's.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0025455702?v=glance   (1863 words)

  
 Narnia Fans - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Movie News | Made By and For Fans of C.S. Lewis and Chronicles of ...
On Saturday 6 May, Douglas Gresham, Co-Producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, local members of the crew, film and TV industry, and writers are taking part in the first ever Australian national C.S. Lewis Conference in Sydney.
Along with Douglas Gresham, Don McAlpine, Director of Photography, and Tracey Reebey, Make-up and Hairstyle (and member of the BAFTA and Academy Award-winning team) will take part in a conversation with Linda and Robert Banks (co-authors of a new discussion guide, The Wonderful World of C.S. Lewis' Narnia).
Hear Douglas Gresham interviewed about the Inklings, Chris Mitchell on ‘Faith and Learning in Lewis’, plus 15 scholars presenting short papers on all aspects of Lewis’s writing—from the apologetics to the science fiction trilogy to his study on grief.
narniafans.com /?id=806   (603 words)

  
 Cokesbury.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
That was Douglas Gresham, stepson of the legendary Lewis.
Here from his house in Ireland, Douglas tells the story of his amazing pilgrimage through life, the crises that brought him to faith and the passion that drives him now.
A special addendum is the story of his wife Merrie and how her decision to secretly abort the child of her unwanted pregnancy when she was a youth was a key factor that led Merrie and Douglas into a unique pro-life ministry from their huge home in Ireland that is open to guests from everywhere.
www.cokesbury.com /?pid=1563643480   (130 words)

  
 Narnia Movies, C.S. Lewis, and More - The Stone Table - Douglas Gresham Recalls his Stepfather, C.S. Lewis
Like Gresham, Lewis suffered the trauma of losing his mother when he was very young.
Gresham notes that, when Lewis' father died years later, Jack and his older brother Warren returned to Belfast to clean out the family home.
Nevertheless, Gresham stressed that Lewis never "lost the intimate memory" of what it was like to be a child.
www.thestonetable.com /articles/241,1.html   (458 words)

  
 NarniaWeb - Douglas Gresham Discusses Prince Caspian in Radio Interview
Douglas Gresham appeared today on Radio Rhema (a NZ radio network) with Rob Holding to discuss his experience filming Prince Caspian.
Douglas Gresham: Once again, absolutely amazed by the wonderful scenic values and light values that you have in NZ, its a wonderful place to film for location work...of course you do have a problem with not having any really good studios and that sort of facilities.
Rob: Yes, and may cause a bit of a problem for VDT because I know the Aussies are after that with their big water tank.
www.narniaweb.com /news.asp?id=1139   (2565 words)

  
 Daddypundit: Douglas Gresham on Homeschooling
The Fall 2005 issue of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine includes an interview with Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. Lewis.
While much of the conversation focuses on the upcoming Narnia movie and Gresham's relationship with Lewis, there is some frank discussion about Gresham's own strong support for homeschooling.
Homeschooling and why I advocate it is not a matter of whether the schools are good or bad, though obviously I would rather children went to good schools than to bad ones, if go to school they must.
daddypundit.blogspot.com /2005/11/douglas-gresham-on-homeschooling.html   (450 words)

  
 Alibris: Douglas Gresham
Douglas Gresham recollects his childhood and adolescent years in C.S. Lewis's household.
This is a players' guide to Redemption, a trading card game of biblical adventures in which players lead brave bands of Heroes in a series of encounters against the evil forces of their opponents.
A collection of recipes devised from some of the foods mentioned in the Chronicles of Narnia, along with a history of the dishes and anecdotes from Lewis's life.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Douglas_Gresham   (306 words)

  
 Central Indiana Homeschool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I am puttin an excerpt of one of his answers here for your consideration and comment, as it is an extremely interesting perspective.
Gresham: Homeschooling and why I advocate it is not a matter of whether the schools are good or bad, though obviously I would rather children went to good schools than bad ones, if go to school they must.
It is that, as someone who has been trained and worsk in the field of post-childhood abuse trauma, and has devoted considerable thought to the matter, I have formed the opinion that the entire concept of school is flawed.
indianahomeschool.blogsome.com /.../04/douglas-gresham-on-homeschooling   (370 words)

  
 Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
C.S. Lewis died more than 40 years ago in England, but his life and work resounded Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn., through stories told by his stepson at a Belmont University gathering.
Douglas Gresham, son of Joy Davidman, to whom Lewis was married from 1956-1960, was the keynote speaker at
“Of all my parental influences, Jack was the one who lasted the longest,” said Gresham, whose mother died when he was 14, his father when he was 15, and Lewis when he was 18.
www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=6529   (715 words)

  
 Douglas Gresham - Berean Christian Stores
Find out what happened to Douglas and what he absorbed about life and Christianity from Lewis ;one of this century's great communicators of the faith.
Here from his house in Ireland Douglas tells the story of his amazing pilgrimage through life, the crises that brought him to faith and the passion that drives his life now.
A special addendum is the story of his wife Merrie and how her decision to secretly abort the child of her unwanted pregnancy when she was a youth was a key factor that led Merrie and Douglas into a unique pro-life ministry from their huge home that is open to guests from everywhere.
www.parable.com /be/item_1563643480.htm   (179 words)

  
 The Lion's Call: Is the Lady of the Green Kirtle Jadis? Douglas Gresham talks to The Lion's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A few of these were addressed in the book "C.S. Lewis' Letters to Children", as curious kids made inquiries in their letters.
I recently had the opportunity to present some more of these detail-oriented questions to Douglas Gresham.
Many thanks to Douglas Gresham for agreeing to this interview.
www.thelionscall.com /news/news_article.cfm?news_id=67   (1344 words)

  
 NarniaWeb - Gresham Talks Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Back in May last year, NarniaWeb heard that Malta was one of the locations being touted for Prince Caspian location filming.
Now it seems that producer Douglas Gresham has set his sights further for filming the third Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, in the small island nation.
Douglas Gresham is currently working on another Narnia Chronicle: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, which is well advanced in pre-production and due for release on May 18, 2008.
www.narniaweb.com /news.asp?id=1085   (439 words)

  
 NarniaWeb - Interview with Douglas Gresham
Gresham: We create the scripts in a collaborative manner, I meet with the writers and Andrew, and we go carefully through every line, honing and refining until we are satisfied that what we have is right.
Gresham: That one I will wait to answer till after the movie is released.
Gresham: Yes I do, but I am not about to give that away either.
www.narniaweb.com /news.asp?id=1096   (621 words)

  
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