Geoffrey Faithfull

Geoffrey Faithfull (born January 26, 1893 in Walton-on-Thames , County Surrey , † December 1, 1979 in Bledlow, County Buckinghamshire ) was a British cameraman with intensive activity in B-productions and at the same time a veteran of the domestic film; with over six decades of film activities behind the camera, he is probably the longest active image designer in film history.

Life

Faithfull made her first contact with film as a child. In 1903 he appeared in front of the camera in an early film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland under the direction of producer Cecil Hepworth . Hepworth brought the 14-year-old into his film factory in 1907 and trained him there as a cameraman.

Over the next 63 years, Faithfull photographed hundreds of (mostly cheap to make) British entertainment films, almost all of them simple. Only his Alec Guinness comedy Once Be a Millionaire , in which he worked as a second-unit cameraman for head cameraman Douglas Slocombe , was a high-class production. His better-known late-night films from around 1960 include the breakaway comedy Die Grüne Minna , the science fiction classic The Village of the Damned and the first Miss Marple crime thriller at 4:50 p.m. from Paddington , all three (like almost all Faithfull films) shot in black and white. Towards the end of World War II, Faithfull had also tried a few times as a director.

Filmography (selection)

1910: The Funeral of King Edward VII (documentary) 1913: Hamlet 1915: Sweet Lavender 1916: The Cobweb 1921: Tansy 1923: Comin 'thro' the Rye 1927: Wait and See 1928: The Silent House 1929: Red Pearls 1930: The Last Hour 1931: Rynox 1931: 77 Park Lane 1932: His Lordship 1932: Born Lucky 1932: The Return of Raffles 1933: Prince of Arcadia 1934: Easy Money 1934: The Phantom Light 1935: Vanity 1935: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste 1936: Burn That Way 1936: Tropical Trouble 1936: Such is Life 1937: Easy Riches 1937: Lily of Laguna 1938: Night Journey 1939: Sword of Honor 1939: Blind Folly 1939: Jailbirds 1940: Garrison Follies 1940: Somewhere in England 1941: Sheepdog of the Hills 1942: Variety Jubilee 1943: Rhythm Serenade 1943: Headline 1943: Death by Design (short film, director) 1944: For You Alone (Director) 1944: Meet Sexton Blake 1944: The Man from Morocco (The Man From Morocco ) 1945: I'll Turn to You (director)

1945: Home Sweet Home 1946: The Green Finger (Send for Paul Temple) 1947: The Hills of Donegal 1948: who is Rex? (Calling Paul Temple) 1948: The Mask Falls (The Story of Shirley Yorke) 1950: Be a millionaire once (The Lavender Hill Mob) (second unit camera) 1951: Honeymoon Deferred 1952: Paul Temple and the Fall of the Marquis (Paul Temple Returns) 1952: Hindle Wakes 1953: Marilyn 1954: The hunt began in the harbor (River Beat) 1954: Radio Cab Murder 1954: The Black Rider 1955: Stock Car 1955: Stolen Time 1956: Tomorrow You Will Kill Me (Kill Me Tomorrow) 1957: The Golden Disc 1957: Then the pistols are silent (Man From Tangier) 1958: Rocket 510 (First Man Into Space) 1958: Mark of the Phoenix 1959: Bobbikins 1959: The Green Minna ( Two-Way-Stretch ) 1959: Village of the Damned (Village of the Damned) 1960: The Green Helmet 1960: In the clutches of the FBI (Offbeat) 1960: Stage stallions (Invasion Quartet) 1961: 4:50 p.m. from Paddington (Murder She Said) 1962: A Kingdom for a Monkey (Operation Snatch) 1962: Practice early ... (On The Beat) 1963: Clash by Night 1963: Panic 1964: The Sicilians 1964: Spaceflight IC 1 1965: The Murder Game 1965: Cuckoo Patrol 1966: The Terrornauts 1966: Who Kills the Cat? (Who Killed the Cat?) 1968: Cry Wolf 1971: Danger Point

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fitz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 607.

Web links

• Geoffrey Faithfull in the Internet Movie Database (English)