Douglas Gresham Movies and Career Information

Douglas Gresham (born November 10, 1945) is a British biographer and film producer, resident in Malta, and one of the two stepsons of C. S. Lewis. Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham, author of Nightmare Alley, the recently re-released classic of American noir literature, and Joy Davidman, best known for her book Smoke on The Mountain. After his parents divorced in 1952, his mother relocated to England with her two sons. Up until recently Douglas and his wife, Merrie, lived at Rathvinden House in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland. In 2008 they moved permanently to their house in Malta. They have five children; three sons and two daughters. Gresham's mother had become friends with C.S. Lewis through correspondence, and the friendship blossomed, eventually leading to marriage in 1956. After Gresham's mother lost a battle with cancer in 1960, Lewis, who had adopted Douglas and his elder brother David when he married, continued to raise them (The Horse and His Boy is dedicated to them both). At Lewis' death in 1963, his estate went to Major Warren Hamilton Lewis, a renowned Historian of French History; the Major in turn passed the estate