Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919 due
to the civil war raging in the country at the time. He started working
as a publicity director at Ealing in 1938, helping develop and design
many of the company's posters. In 1943 he turned his hand to
scriptwriting. His first produced screenplay was
Underground Guerrillas (1943). In 1949 he produced
Ealing's classic
Whisky Galore! (1949). He left
Ealing to work independently as a producer, turning out such films as
The Galloping Major (1951).
Danischewsky returned to Ealing in the
mid-'50s as a writer and
producer, working with
Michael Relph
on
Mad Little Island (1958) and
Charles Crichton on
The Battle of the Sexes (1960).
His last film as a producer was
Two and Two Make Six (1962),
and his final screenwriting credit was
Mister Moses (1965). In 1966 his
autobiography, "White Russian, Red Face", was published. His later work
was in television.