- Great uncle of Nicholas Hoult.
- London, England, November 15, 1938 (by cable): Statement of affairs of Imperator Films, in voluntary liquidation, lists $622,985 owing to unsecured creditors, among whom are Herbert Wilcox ($136,165) and Anna Neagle ($127,885). Both Wilcox and Miss Neagle have cabled from Hollywood expressing the wish that their claims be set aside until other creditors have been paid. Herbert Wilcox Productions, also in voluntary liquidation, lists debts to unsecured creditors of $310,125. Sir Harold Moore is liquidator for both firms, though creditors are discussing appointment of a co-liquidator.
- Co-founder of British International Pictures.
- Began in the motion picture industry as a salesman and distributor of American silent pictures with Astra Films in 1919. Produced films under his own banner from 1922, with imported American stars such as Dorothy Gish and Mae Marsh. Built Elstree Studios and set up British National. Experimented with color cinematography (Prizmacolour). Ousted from British National and subsequently established British & Dominions at Elstree in 1928, quick to implement Western Electric Sound. A noted entrepreneur and prolific producer of films, half of which he also directed, with varying success. In Hollywood, his films were distributed by RKO (1938, 1940-42) and 20th Century-Fox (1945). He declared bankruptcy in 1964.
- Served with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.
- After 1932 Anna Neagle only starred in two films not directed by Wilcox. They were married in 1943. Best of their joint output were such period dramas as Nell Gwyn (1934) and Peg of Old Drury (1935), and biopics of Queen Victoria.
- Founder of Herbert Wilcox Productions.
- Built Elstree Studios.
- Co-founder, with wife Anna Neagle, of Imperator Films, which went bankrupt in 1938.
- Founded British National Pictures.
- Co-founder of British & Dominions Film Corp. in 1928.
- He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1951 King's New Year Honours List for his services to the film industry.
- He made an arrangement to produce a series of films in association with His Master's Voice gramophone company, with the aim of using their celebrity recording stars. Among the films they were to make together, were "Cochran's Talkie Revue," a film of Charles B. Cochran's variety show, the play "Rookery Nook," an adaptation of the novel "The Blue Lagoon" with Hollywood stars to be shot on location in Hawaii, the life story of Robert Burns, and a biopic of Lady Hamilton with Anna Neagle. Of these, only One Embarrassing Night (1930) and The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) were made.
- He acquired the motion picture rights to Henry De Vere Stacpoole's novel "The Blue Lagoon" from I.W. Schlesinger in 1928 and bought all prints of the film The Blue Lagoon (1923) to prevent it from competing with his film. Unfortunately, the Great Depression halted Wilcox's ambitions of bringing "The Blue Lagoon" to the screen. To add insult to injury, the last surviving print was destroyed in a spectacular fire at the British and Dominions Imperial Studios on 9 February 1936, and Wilcox lost faith in the project.
- Father of John Wilcox.
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