CM Pennington-Richards

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Cyril Montague Pennington-Richards (born December 17, 1911 in London - South Norwood , United Kingdom , † January 2, 2005 in Chichester , Sussex ) was a British cameraman and film director .

Live and act

Pennington-Richards began his professional career in the 1930s producing religious informational films for the J. Arthur Ranks Religious Film Society. In 1938 he started working as a feature film cameraman. During the Second World War brought him the Crown Film Unit and allowed the Londoner whose propagandistic documentaries and information films, including Fires Were Started , photographed. After the end of the war, Pennington-Richards quickly returned to entertainment film and, with some skill, photographed dark black and white materials such as the horror story Der Wahnsinn des Dr. Clive, Edward Dmytryk's social drama Haus der Sehnsucht , a critically acclaimed Scrooge film adaptation and the first cinema version of George Orwell's dystopian science fiction in 1984 . He largely concluded his career as a cameraman at the end of 1956 with a Tarzan film.

Since 1957 Pennington-Richards concentrated on film and television directing, but without doing anything significant there. He mainly shot cheaply made comedies and children's stories, but also war and adventure films. In 1967 he temporarily retired from the film business after a Robin Hood strip, ten years later for good. For the British Film Institute , CM Pennington Richards gave an audio recording in 1990 about his life as a filmmaker.

Filmography

as head cameraman (selection)

  • 1937: William Tindale (short film)
  • 1938: Ireland's Border Line
  • 1942: Builders (short documentary)
  • 1943: Fires Were Started (documentary)
  • 1944: Out of Chaos (short documentary)
  • 1946: Theirs Is the Glory (documentary)
  • 1947: The impostor ( The Woman in the Hall )
  • 1947: Esther Waters
  • 1948: The madness of Dr. Clive ( obsession )
  • 1948: House of Sehnsucht ( Give Us This Day )
  • 1950: The Wooden Horse
  • 1951: Serum 703 ( White Corridors )
  • 1951: A Christmas Story ( Scrooge )
  • 1952: Treasure Hunt
  • 1952: Seconds of Desperation ( Desperate Moment )
  • 1953: Always a Bride
  • 1953: The Castle of the Traitors ( Star of India )
  • 1954: Forbidden Cargo ( Forbidden Cargo )
  • 1954: The inheritance of Aunt Clara ( Aunt Clara )
  • 1955: 1984 ( 1984 )
  • 1956: It's Never Too Late
  • 1957: Tarzan and the Lost Safari ( Tarzan and the Lost Safari )
  • 1961: An odd saint ( The Reluctant Saint )

as director :

  • 1953: The Oracle
  • 1957: The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV series)
  • 1957: Hour of Decision
  • 1958: Stormy Crossing
  • 1959: Inn for Trouble
  • 1961: Double Bunk
  • 1961: The Cream People Talk about ( Dentist on the Job )
  • 1962: The last journey of U 153 ( Mystery Submarine )
  • 1963: Ladies Who Do
  • 1962–65: Code 01 ( Zero One ) (TV series)
  • 1967: Robin Hood, the freedom hero ( A Challenge for Robin Hood )
  • 1967: Danny the Dragon
  • 1976: Sky Pirates

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personal data
SURNAME Pennington-Richards, CM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pennington-Richards, Cyril Montague (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London - South Norwood , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2005
Place of death Chichester , Sussex