Anna Graf (February 14, 1907 - July 29, 1993) was the sister of the movie producer William Graf (Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons). She was the companion of Jane Loring. Graf inherited the bulk of Loring's estate. Graf, “a very private person,” according to her attorney, left boxes of old papers in storage at the time of her death in 1993. These were destroyed, leaving unanswered the question of whether they contained Katharine Hepburn’s letters to Loring. The lawyer who handled Loring’s estate, Noel Hatch, was also Dorothy Arzner’s lawyer.
William Graf, a film producer whose credits include "Lawrence of Arabia," "Born Free" and "A Man for All Seasons," was born in New York City in 1912, started his career in the film industry in 1937 as an assistant to Mark Hellinger, an independent producer and writer at the Warner Brothers studio. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps, writing training films for its First Motion Picture Unit. After the war, Graf joined Columbia Studios as personal secretary and assistant to the studio's president, Harry Cohn, who soon promoted him to assistant production manager. In 1952, Graf was assigned supervision of Columbia's overseas production, with headquarters in London. In addition to "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Born Free," his films included "A Bridge on the River Kwai," "The Guns of Navarone" and "Lord Jim." In 1968, he produced two feature films, "The African Elephant" and "The End of the Game," both of which were photographed entirely in Kenya. He died in 1994.
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