Guy Green (Director)
Guy Green (born November 15, 1913 in Somerset , Great Britain , † September 15, 2005 in Beverly Hills , USA ) was a British cameraman , director , screenwriter and Oscar winner.
Life
Green started his career in Great Britain and was a co-founder of the British Society of Cinematographers , of which he was president from 1952 to 1954.
Guy Green has directed the camera in 16 major international films. He won an Oscar in 1946 for his camerawork in David Lean's adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations ( Mysterious Legacy ). After making 24 films as a cameraman, he switched to the director's chair in the 1950s. He directed 17 films, such as the war film The Black Devils by El Alamein ( Sea of Sand , 1958) and the workers 'film Angry Silence ( The Angry Silence , 1960), which received the international critics' award at the Berlin Film Festival . Likewise in the love story Woman of the Other ( A Walk In The Spring Rain , 1969) and the much-acclaimed film Brandmarked in Europe and the USA ( The Mark , 1961) with Rod Steiger . He worked with Richard Attenborough in several films . Since the 1960s, Guy Green was only involved in Hollywood and mainly made films for television . For the film Dreaming Lips ( A Patch of Blue ) with Sidney Poitier , he received a Golden Globe nomination for the script and direction in 1965 . Shelley Winters received an Academy Award for Best Female Supporting Actress for her role in this film.
In 2004 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Guy Green died of heart and kidney failure in his Beverly Hills home.
Filmography
camera
- 1942: In Which We Serve
- 1944: The Way Ahead
- 1946: A Heart Is Lost ( Carnival ) - Director: Stanley Haynes
- 1946: Great Expectations ( Great Expectations ) - Director: David Lean
- 1947: Das rettende Lied ( Take my life ) - Director: Ronald Neame
- 1948: Oliver Twist - Director: David Lean
- 1948: Restless Blood ( Blanche fury ) - Director: Marc Allégret
- 1949: Adam & Evelyne - directed by Harold French
- 1949: The Great Passion ( The passionate friends ) - Director: David Lean
- 1949/50: Madeleine - Director: David Lean
- 1950: The King's Admiral ( Captain Horatio Hornblower ) - Director: Raoul Walsh
- 1951: Night without Stars ( Night without stars ) - Director: Anthony Pelissier
- 1952: Boccaccio's great love ( Decameron nights ) - Director: Hugo Fregonese
- 1952: The Beggar's Opera ( The Beggar's Opera ) - Director: Peter Brook
- 1952: Robin Hood and his daring journeymen ( The story of Robin Hood and his merrie men ) - Director: Ken Annakin
- 1953: Rob Roy , the Highland rogue - Director: Harold French
- 1953: The Beggar's Opera (The Beggar's Opera) - Director: Peter Brook
- 1954: Glück auf Raten ( For better, for worse ) - Director: J. Lee Thompson
- 1955: The Black Prince (The Dark Avenger) - Director: Henry Levin
Director
- 1954: The hunt began in the harbor (River Beat)
- 1955: perpetrator unknown (Lost)
- 1956: In the claws of the gangsters (House of Secrets)
- 1958: The snorkel ( The Snorkel )
- 1958: The Black Devils of El Alamein (Sea of Sand)
- 1959: Big Air and Hot Love ( SOS Pacific )
- 1960: Wrath silence ( The Angry Silence )
- 1961: Branded (The Mark)
- 1962: Light in the Piazza ( Light in the Piazza )
- 1962: The King of Hawaii ( Diamond Head )
- 1965: Dreaming Lips ( A Patch of Blue ) - also screenplay
- 1968: Devilish Games ( The Magus )
- 1969: A Walk In The Spring Rain
- 1974: Luther
- 1974: Once is not enough ( Once is not enough )
- 1977: The Devil's Advocate (The Devil's Advocate)
- 1981: Captive Love ( Inmates: A Love story )
- 1986: Strong Medicine - Lethal Dose ( Strong Medicine )
Web links
- Guy Green in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Green, guy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somerset , England, UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , USA |