Cinematographers-Turned-Director: G - Q
Guy Green - Bernard Knowles - Rudolph Maté - Ronald Neame - Bruno Nuytten
Thaddeus O'Sullivan - C.M. Pennington-Richards
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From First Cameraman to Director of Photography - The documentary 'The Cinematographer' - What Is a Director of Photography? [by Gregg Toland & Charles G. Clarke] |
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Film vs. Digital Video - D-Cinema |
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Oliver Stapleton: So You Wanna Work in Movies? |
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What It Took to Create 'Collateral' |
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Bleach Bypass - Digital Intermediate - Steadicam - Louma Crane |
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Cinematographers-Turned-Director: A - F |
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Cinematographers-Turned-Director: G - Q |
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Cinematographers-Turned-Director: R - Z |
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A History of Aerial Cinematography |
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Wizards of Visual Effects: The Golden Age |
GUY GREEN
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With dir Richard Attenborough [right] |
Born: 5 November 1913, Frome, Somerset, UK, as Guy Mervin Charles
Green.
Died: 15 September 2005, Beverly Hills, Calif., USA.
Worked as a projectionist for the Commercial Maritime Film Service on the
ocean liner 'The Majestic', ran a portrait studio in London and served as a clapper boy for
Sound City, an advertising company, before entering the film industry as a
c.asst in 1933 at Elstree Studios, becoming c.op in 1935. Became doph in
1940 and director in 1953. Was co-founder of the BSC. Received an 'Oscar' AA [1947; b&w] for
'Great Expectations', the ASC 'President's Award' [2000], a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award
[2001] and was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2004.
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1940 |
Spellbound/Ghost Story/The Spell of Amy Nugent [John Harlow] b&w; cph: Walter J. Harvey |
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1943 |
The Way Ahead/The Immortal Battalion [Carol Reed] b&w; fire scenes ph: Derick Williams |
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1945 |
Great Expectations [David Lean] b&w; 2uc: Ernest Steward; filmed 1945-46; replaced ph Robert Krasker after a few days of shooting |
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1947 |
Oliver Twist [David Lean] b&w |
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1949 |
Madeleine/The Strange Case of Madeleine [David Lean] b&w |
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1950 |
Captain Horatio Hornblower RN [Raoul Walsh] c |
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1951 |
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men [Ken Annakin] c; 2uc: Geoffrey Unsworth; also 2-part ep of the 'Disneyland' tv-series (1955) |
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1953 |
The Beggar's Opera [Peter Brook] c |
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1955 |
I Am a Camera [Henry Cornelius] b&w |
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1953 |
River Beat [ph: Geoffrey Faithfull] |
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1955 |
Portrait of Alison/Postmark for Danger [ph: Wilkie Cooper] |
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1958 |
Sea of Sand/Desert Patrol [ph: Wilkie Cooper] |
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1959 |
The Angry Silence [ph: Arthur Ibbetson] |
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1961 |
The Mark [ph: Dudley Lovell] |
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1961 |
Light in the Piazza [ph: Otto Heller] |
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1965 |
A Patch of Blue [ph: Robert Burks] + scrpl |
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1968 |
The Magus [ph: Billy Williams] |
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1973 |
Luther [ph: Freddie Young] |
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1986 |
Strong Medicine [2-part tvm] ph: Kelvin Pike |
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BERNARD KNOWLES
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Born: 20 February 1900, Manchester, UK, as Bernard Joseph Knowles.
Died: 12 February 1975, Taplow, Bucks., UK.
Started career as newspaper ph, at one point going to the USA to work for the Detroit
News. Returned to the UK in 1922. Became c.asst at Gainsborough [Islington
Studios]. His brother Cyril [1905-61] was a doph.
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1927 |
Mumsie [Herbert Wilcox] b&w |
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1931 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles [Gareth Gundrey] b&w |
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1934 |
Jew Süss/Power [Lothar Mendes] b&w; cph: Günther Krampf |
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1935 |
The 39 Steps [Alfred Hitchcock] b&w |
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1935 |
Secret Agent [Alfred Hitchcock] b&w |
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1936 |
Sabotage/A Woman Alone/I Married a Murderer [Alfred Hitchcock] b&w |
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1937 |
Young and Innocent/The Girl Was Young [Alfred Hitchcock] b&w |
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1938 |
Jamaica Inn [Alfred Hitchcock] b&w; collab ph; ph: Harry Stradling |
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1939 |
The Mikado [Victor Schertzinger] c; cph: William V. Skall |
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1940 |
Gaslight/Angel Street [Thorold Dickinson] b&w |
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1943 |
English Without Tears/Her Man Gilbey [Harold French] b&w |
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1944 |
A Place of One's Own [ph: Stephen Dade] |
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1946 |
The Magic Bow [ph: Jack Asher & Jack E. Cox] |
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1947 |
The Man Within/The Smugglers [ph: Geoffrey Unsworth] |
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1947 |
Jassy [ph: Geoffrey Unsworth] |
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1949 |
The Perfect Woman [ph: Jack Hildyard] |
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1949 |
The Lost People [co-d: Muriel Box] ph: Jack Asher |
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1965 |
Hell Is Empty [started the film (uncred); John Ainsworth finished the prod] ph: Jan Stallich & Sasa Hunka; + co-scrpl |
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1967 |
Magical Mystery Tour [co-d: The Beatles; mus film/55m for BBC-tv] ph: Richard Starkey (= Ringo Starr) |
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Directed ep of several tv-series, e.g. 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' [26-part series, 1952 & 1954-55], 'Fabian of the Yard/Patrol Car' [30-part series, 1954-55], 'The Adventures of Robin Hood/The Adventures in Sherwood Forest' [143-part series, 1955-60], 'The Adventures of Sir Lancelot' [30-part series, 1956-57; + co-prod], 'Ivanhoe' [39-part series, 1958] & 'Dial 999' [39-part series, 1958-59]. |
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RONALD NEAME
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Born: 23 April 1911, Hampstead Garden, London, UK, as Ronald Elwin Neame,
son of actress Ivy Close [1890-1968] and portrait ph and dir Elwin Neame [1885-1923].
Died: 16 June 2010, Los Angeles, Calif., USA.
Studied at University College, London, and Hurstpierpoint College, West Sussex. Financial
problems caused by his father's death in 1923 forced him to leave public school.
He went to work at British International Pictures' newly opened Elstree
Studios as a gofer. Was clapper boy on Alfred Hitchcock's 'Blackmail'
[1929; ph: Jack Cox], before becoming c.asst to doph Jack Cox and Claude Friese-Greene.
Became doph in 1933. Ph many 'quota quickies' before graduating to more prestigious
films at Ealing Studios, including several George Formby comedies. The
association on 'In Which We Serve' [1942] with director
David Lean and [associate] producer Anthony Havelock-Allan was formalized as Cineguild
in 1944, formed by Havelock-Allan
who invited the others to join, and the resulting prod company contributed
substantially to the prestige of 1940's British cinema. Active as prod, e.g. 'Brief Encounter'
[1945, David Lean] and 'Oliver
Twist' [1948, David Lean]. After the demise of Cineguild in 1947, he turned to
directing. Received many awards/nominations, e.g. Venice FF 'Golden Lion' nom [1958] for 'The
Horse's Mouth', BAFTA Film Award nom [1961] for 'Tunes of Glory'
& Cannes FF 'Palme d'or' nom [1969] for 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'.
His son Christopher [1942-2011] was a film prod.
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1933 |
Happy [Frederic Zelnik] b&w; cph: Claude Friese-Greene & Bryan Langley |
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1935 |
Drake of England/Drake the Pirate [Arthur Woods] b&w; cph: Claude Friese-Greene |
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1937 |
Member of the Jury [Bernard Mainwaring] b&w; cph: Stanley Grant |
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1937 |
Cafe Colette/Danger in Paris [Paul L. Stein] b&w |
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1938 |
It's in the Air/George Takes the Air [Anthony Kimmins] b&w; cph: Gordon Dines |
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1939 |
The Four Just Men/The Secret Four [Walter Forde] b&w |
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1940 |
Major Barbara [Gabriel Pascal] b&w |
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1941 |
[The Story of] '......one of our aircraft is missing' [Michael Powell] b&w; assoc photographer (+ co-c.op): Robert Krasker |
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1942 |
In Which We Serve [David Lean & Noel Coward] b&w; sfx ph: Derick Williams |
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1943 |
This Happy Breed [David Lean] c; + co-scrpl/assoc prod |
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1944 |
Blithe Spirit [David Lean] c; + co-scrpl |
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> DIRECTOR [Selection] |
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1947 |
Take My Life [ph: Guy Green] |
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1949 |
Golden Salamander [ph: Oswald Morris] + co-scrpl |
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1953 |
The Million Pound Note/Man with a Million [ph: Geoffrey Unsworth] |
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1955 |
The Man Who Never Was [ph: Oswald Morris] |
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1958 |
The Horse's Mouth [ph: Arthur Ibbetson] + prod |
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1960 |
Tunes of Glory [ph: Arthur Ibbetson] |
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1968 |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [ph: Ted Moore] |
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1970 |
Scrooge [ph: Oswald Morris] |
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1972 |
The Poseidon Adventure [ph: Harold E. Stine] |
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1979 |
Meteor [ph: Paul Lohmann] + small part |
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1989 |
The Magic Balloon [ph: Jack Cardiff] + co-scrpl |
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BRUNO NUYTTEN
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[Left] with dir Luc Béraud [1978] |
Born: 28 August 1945, Melun, France.
Failed the entrance exam to the Paris film school IDHEC, but secured a place at the INSAS,
the French language film school in Brussels, Belgium. Became c.asst working with
Ghislain Cloquet, Ricardo Aronovich & Claude Lecomte. Ph his
first film in 1968. Turned director in 1987 with 'Camille Claudel'.
Received awards/nominations, e.g. 'César' Award [1977] for 'Barocco',
'César' Award [1984] for 'Tchao pantin' & BAFTA Film Award [1988]
for 'Jean de Florette'.
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1968 |
Joseph ou Comment peut-on être Vosgien? [Luc Béraud] ? |
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1969 |
L'espace vital [Patrice Leconte] 16mm/?; short/25m |
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1971 |
La poule [Luc Béraud] b&w; short/18m |
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1972 |
La femme du Gange/Woman of the Ganges [Marguerite Duras] c; cph: Jean Mascolo |
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1974 |
India Song [Marguerite Duras] 16mm-35bu/c |
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1976 |
Barocco [André Téchiné] scope/c |
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1979 |
Brubaker [Stuart Rosenberg & (uncred) Bob Rafelson] c |
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1981 |
Garde à vue [Claude Miller] c |
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1982 |
La vie est un roman/Life Is a Bed of Roses [Alain Resnais] c |
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1983 |
Tchao pantin [Claude Berri] c |
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1984 |
Détective [Jean-Luc Godard] c |
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1985 |
Jean de Florette [Claude Berri] tvi/c |
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1985 |
Manon des sources [Claude Berri] tvi/c |
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1987 |
Camille Claudel [- Violence et passion][ph: Pierre Lhomme] + co-scrpl |
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1991 |
Albert souffre/Albert Suffers[ph: Eric Gautier] + scrpl |
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1998 |
Passionnément/Passionately/Le soleil de plus près[ph: Eric Gautier] + co-scrpl |
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2001 |
Jim, la nuit[ph: Bruno Nuytten] tvm/s16; ep series 'Aux quatre coins du monde' for Arte-tv |
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2004 |
Il était une fois... Le dernier tango à Paris[co-d: Serge July; ph: ?] tv-doc/52m/DigiBeta |
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THADDEUS O'SULLIVAN
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Born: 2 May 1947, Dublin, Ireland.
Moved to London in 1966, where he received his
early film training at the Ealing School
of Art and the Royal College
of Art. In the late 1970s he made two influential experimental
films about the life of the Irish immigrant in London: the short film 'A
Pint of Plain' and the feature-length 'On a Paving Stone
Mounted' [1978]. During
the 1980's, he developed into a highly-regarded lighting cameraman, working on important Irish
independent films. His international breakthrough came as doph on Andrew
Grieve's 'On the Black Hill', which was
critically acclaimed for its beautiful and evocative landscapes. He continued to
direct his own films during this period. His first fiction
feature as director was 'December Bride'. Also active as dir
for the theatre [e.g., 'A Country in Our Heads', 1991, Dublin]. Received
awards/nominations, e.g. European Film Awards 'Special Jury Award II' [1990]
for 'December Bride' & Venice FF 'Golden Lion' nom [1995] for 'Nothing
Personal'. [Using quotes from article
by Martin McLoone on the screenonline website.]
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1981 |
Traveller [Joe Comerford] c |
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1984 |
Pigs [Cathal Black] c |
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1984 |
Anne Devlin [Pat Murphy] c |
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1986 |
The Clash of the Ash [Fergus Tighe] tvm/53m; addph; ph: Declan Quinn |
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1987 |
Rocinante [Ann & Eduardo Guedes] c |
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1987 |
On the Black Hill [Andrew Grieve] c |
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1988 |
Ladder of Swords [Norman Hull] c |
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1974 |
A Pint of Plain [short/40m] ph: Dick Perrin; + co-scrpl/ed |
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1985 |
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable [short/29m] ph: Jack Conroy |
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1989 |
December Bride [ph: Bruno de Keyzer & Sean Corcoran] |
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1994 |
Seascape [tvm] ph: Godfrey Graham |
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1995 |
Nothing Personal [ph: Dick Pope] |
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1997 |
Witness to the Mob [2-part tvm] ph: Frank Prinzi |
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1998 |
Ordinary Decent Criminal [ph: Andrew Dunn] |
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2001 |
The Heart of Me [ph: Gyula Pados] |
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2007 |
Into the Storm/Churchill at War [tvm] ph: Michel Amathieu |
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2010 |
Stella Days [ph: John Christian Rosenlund] |
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C.M. PENNINGTON-RICHARDS
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[Far right, with beard] "White Corridors" [1951] |
Born: 17 December 1911, South Norwood, London, UK., as Cyril
Montague Pennington Richards [his surname is Richards not
Pennington-Richards].
Died: 2 January 2005, Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
Became
involved with filmmaking when his skill as an inventive ph was tapped by J.
Arthur Rank, who in 1934 abandoned working for his father's prosperous flour
business to produce films for the Religious Film Society. Forming his own
company, Religious Films Ltd, Rank took Pennington-Richards under his wing, and
'Penny' later recalled how they made films using Rank's airing-cupboard as their
'studio', making movies with an elaborate arrangement of lathes and puppets,
with openings made either side of the cupboard so that the puppets could be
animated against scenery which lined the cupboard's walls. The results were
shown in Sunday Schools and Methodist halls, and their live-action shorts
included 'Inasmuch' [1934], which gave Greer Garson her first screen
role, and 'William Tyndale' [1937]. His
feature debut as doph was the
low-budget 'Blarney'. During national service with the Crown Film Unit, he was
employed as doph on Humphrey Jennings landmark doc 'I Was a Fireman/Fires Were
Started'. After
the war, he filmed segments for the magazine series 'Pathé Pictorial',
then he resumed working for Rank. In 1951, he ph Brian Desmond
Hurst's 'Scrooge', which received a mixed reception at the time of
release but is now considered the definitive version of Dickens's tale. He made
3 films with the blacklisted American director Edward Dmytryk, e.g. the noirish thriller
'Obsession'. Dmytryk
wrote in his autobiography: 'The photographer on the film was a bearded young
man named C. Pennington Richards - 'Penny' for short. He was one of those rare
Englishmen with whom an American can find no fault at all. 'Penny' was more than
willing. Our main set, the sub-basement, was supposed to be lit with two bright
overhead hanging work lights, shaded with those large green enamel shades so
common in old workrooms. 'Penny' inserted a photo-flood bulb in each. When we
walked on the set in the morning, a pull on the lamp cords lit the set. When an
actor walked close to a light, he was hot; when he backed too far away, he
nearly disappeared in the background. But God, did it look real!' Made his directorial debut with
the 'The Oracle/The Horse's Mouth'. Also dir ep of several tv-series. Directed his last film,
'Sky Pirates', in 1976, then retired to
Bognor Regis, West Sussex, with his second wife, Beausie, a daughter of the King
of Fiji. He bought
a motor-bike at the age of 75 and became a courier, but his wife persuaded him
to give it up five years later after he had an accident. [Using quotes from obituary
by Tom Vallance published in 'The Independent', 14 January 2005.]
> CINEMATOGRAPHER [Selection] |
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1937 |
Blarney/Ireland's Border Line [Harry O'Donovan] b&w |
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1941 |
Builders [Pat Jackson] b&w; doc/8m; prod Crown Film Unit |
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1942 |
Western Approaches/The Raider [Pat Jackson] c; doc/83m; cph: Jack Cardiff, Geoffrey Unsworth, a.o.; prod Crown Film Unit |
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1942 |
I Was a Fireman/Fires Were Started [Humphrey Jennings] b&w; docudrama/80m ('I Was a Fireman') & 63m ('Fires Were Started'); prod Crown Film Unit |
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1946 |
Theirs Is the Glory/Men of Arnhem [Brian Desmond Hurst & Terence Young] b&w; doc/82m |
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1947 |
The Woman in the Hall [Jack Lee] b&w; cph: H.E. Fowle |
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1948 |
Obsession/The Hidden Room [Edward Dmytryk] b&w; + small part |
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1949 |
Give Us This Day/Salt to the Devil/Christ in Concrete [Edward Dmytryk] b&w |
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1950 |
The Wooden Horse [Jack Lee & (ending) Ian Dalrymple] b&w |
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1951 |
White Corridors [Pat Jackson] b&w |
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1951 |
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol [Brian Desmond Hurst] b&w |
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1952 |
Treasure Hunt[John Paddy Carstairs] b&w |
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1953 |
Star of India [Arthur Lubin] c |
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1955 |
1984 [Michael Anderson] b&w |
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1962 |
The Reluctant Saint/Joseph Desa [Edward Dmytryk] b&w |
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> DIRECTOR [Selection Films] |
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1952 |
The Oracle/The Horse's Mouth [ph: Wolfgang Suschitzky] |
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1957 |
Hour of Decision [ph: Stanley Pavey] |
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1958 |
Stormy Crossing/Black Tide [ph: Monty Berman] |
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1961 |
Dentist on the Job/Get on with It [ph: Stephen Dade] |
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1963 |
Mystery Submarine/Decoy [ph: Stanley Pavey] |
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1966 |
Danny the Dragon [ph: John Coquillon] 10-part serial/173m; prod Children's Film Foundation |
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1976 |
Sky Pirates [ph: Alan Hall] 60m; prod Children's Film Foundation |
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