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His grandson Kevin Macdonald is an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker. He has also written a biography about his grandfather.

In 2014 an English Heritage Blue Plaque was erected to commemorate him and Michael Powell at their old offices in London. The plaque was unveiled by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker.

Soon after his partnership with Michael Powell had come to an end, he was hired by David Lean to write a film on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi. However, Lean was dissatisfied with the script and instead opted to make Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Two of his 1960s screenplays - Operation Crossbow (1965) and They're a Weird Mob (1966) - are credited to "Richard Imrie." Pressburger wanted to help out his old friend Michael Powell, who directed the latter, but also wanted to start a new career as a writer of novels as well as films.

Despite the fact that they occasionally worked on the same film, he and Arnold Pressburger are not related.

After his death, his old friend and partner Michael Powell called him, "the better artist - and the better man".

In 1970 the British Film Institute (BFI) held its first retrospective of the works of he and Michael Powell. Fourteen films were shown and the booklet "Michael Powell in Collaboration with Emeric Pressburger" by Kevin Gough-Yates was published to accompany the season.

In 1978 the British Film Institute (BFI) held a complete retrospective showing all the extant works of he and Michael Powell. The book "Powell, Pressburger and Others" by Ian Christie was published to accompany this.

His grandson Andrew Macdonald is a film producer (Trainspotting (1996)).

Admirers of the works of him and Michael Powell include Martin Scorsese.

His novel "The Miracle of St. Anthony's Lane" was written for Kurt Gerron to film in 1934. It had been optioned to make a film at least four times, and each time it was not made so the rights reverted to Pressburger. He said he could retire if he had a few more stories like that. It was finally filmed as Miracle in Soho (1957) in 1957.

Father of Angela Pressburger.

Received a BFI Special Award (with Michael Powell) in 1978.

Made a Fellow of BAFTA, 1981.

Made a Fellow of the BFI, 1983.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival in 1962.

He and Michael Powell directed Esmond Knight in five films: Blackout (1940), A Canterbury Tale (1944), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948) and Gone to Earth (1950).

Emeric and Michael Powell began their collaboration in 1938 after being brought together by Alexander Korda for the film The Spy in Black. They were together some 20 years and some 20 films including 49th Parallel and A Canterbury Tale amongst many others which were made through their own company, The Archers[.

His father was an estate manager.,.