J Arthur Rank
Created | Updated Jan 10, 2012
1888-1972
A British millionaire industrialist who made his money in flour. He was a deeply committed Methodist and a teetotaller, who got into film production in order to make religious films. His business acumen led him to become the biggest film producer in Britain by the mid-1940s.
Probably turning in his grave at the knowledge that he is mainly remembered as rhyming slang.