Gordon Dines

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Gordon Dines (born June 4, 1911 in London as Gordon Percival Dines , † April 27, 1982 ibid) was a British cameraman .

Life

Gordon Percival Dines had left school at the age of 15 and started working as a camera assistant at BIP Elstree that same year (1926) . In this capacity he was also involved in Britain's first official feature-length sound film, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail , in 1929 .

In 1932 Dines switched to the ATP Studios and became a simple cameraman. Three years later he began his continuous work as a chief photographer. Initially, Dines photographed various comedies with George Formby Jr. , the pre-war British star comedian. Later, after his military service 1941–1945, he joined the production company Ealing . From late 1946 to 1954 Dines photographed several films by the director Basil Dearden , then the last productions by veteran director Herbert Wilcox .

Dines' specialty after 1945 was primarily to be dramatic material such as the naval war drama The Great Atlantic , the safe-cracker crime thriller The Long Arm and the historically authenticated escape and escape story The Colditz Story . These were films that Dines shot in a no-frills, semi-documentary style. At the same time, however, he occasionally also photographed completely different materials, such as the cheerful, weird story Oller Kahn with megalomania .

In the 1960s Dines found little employment in the domestic cinema industry, and so he withdrew into private life.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1935: George breaks all records (No Limit)
  • 1936: Dreams Come True
  • 1936: Feather Your Nest
  • 1937: Keep Fit
  • 1937: I See Ice
  • 1938: Penny Paradise
  • 1938: The Gaunt Stranger
  • 1939: Bravo, George! (Come On George)
  • 1941: Turned Out Nice Again
  • 1946: Nicholas Nickleby (Nicholas Nickleby)
  • 1947: Frieda
  • 1949: The Blue Lamp
  • 1950: Underworld (Pool of London)
  • 1951: The Blinded (Secret People)
  • 1952: The Bomb in the Underground (The Gentle Gunman)
  • 1952: The Cruel Sea (The Cruel Sea)
  • 1954: Oller Kahn with megalomania (The Maggie)
  • 1955: In the Shadow of the Citadel (The Colditz Story)
  • 1955: The Long Arm
  • 1956: Yangtse Incident (Yangtse Incident)
  • 1957: It Started When She Said No (These Dangerous Years)
  • 1957: Tatort Apartment 310 (The Man Who Wouldn't Talk)
  • 1958: The Lady is a Square
  • 1959: To hell with Sydney (The Siege of Pinchgut)
  • 1959: She whistled and the guys kissed (The Challenge)
  • 1960: Circle of Deception
  • 1961: A Bomb in the High Street
  • 1965: Single-Use Medical Syringes (short industrial film)
  • 1970: Bread

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 Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 403.

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personal data
SURNAME Dines, Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1982
Place of death London