Douglas Gresham

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Douglas Gresham (born November, 1945) is a British biographer and film producer. He is a son of Joy Gresham and stepson of the author C. S. Lewis. Lewis adopted Douglas and his older brother David in 1956, and when Lewis died, his estate, including the rights to the enormously popular Chronicles of Narnia, went to them. Douglas Gresham admitted in a November 15, 2005, interview on NPR that he and his brother are estranged[1].

Gresham is co-producer for the new series of film adaptations of the Chronicles of Narnia. He has also written an autobiography entitled Lenten Lands which chronicles his life from childhood to middle age.

A fictionalized, boyhood Douglas Gresham is a character in the 1993 film Shadowlands, in part derived from Lenten Lands. In the film, Gresham is played by the American actor Joseph Mazzello; there is no character derived from Douglas' brother David in the film or in either the teleplay or stageplay on which the film is based. Shadowlands presents a highly romanticized dramatization of the relationship between Joy Gresham and C.S. Lewis.