Moray Grant

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David Robert Moray Grant (born November 13, 1917 in Forres , Scotland , United Kingdom , † September 17, 1977 in Chalfont St Peter , United Kingdom) was a British cameraman .

Live and act

Grant joined film as a camera assistant in 1936 and was employed as a simple cameraman by smaller production companies such as British National Films in the midst of World War II . Grant remained, although employed as head cameraman at several cheap films in the first post-war years, for the majority of his professional life a simple cameraman and in this position shot mostly low-budget B-films . The company Hammer Films , which specializes in horror stories, has also engaged Moray Grant since the late 1950s, for example for Hunting , The Kiss of the Vampire , Nights of Horror , The Black Reptile , The Curse of the Mummy , The Green Blood of the Demons and Dracula's Return . Mostly he worked there under the head cameraman Arthur Grant . For other companies, Grant stayed true to the horror and science fiction genre and worked, again as a simple cameraman, on The Day the Earth Catched Fire , The Dark Old House and Roger Corman's The Tomb of Lygeia . Only a few times did Moray Grant have the opportunity to design films on his own initiative; around 1970 he was involved in four horror films by Hammer-Films as chief cameraman.

Filmography

Only as (co-) head cameraman :

literature

  • David Jones (Ed.): Film Fanatics Guide. Merlin Books Ltd., Braunton (Devon) 1988, p. 258

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personal data
SURNAME Grant, Moray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grant, David Robert Moray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Forres , Scotland , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1977
Place of death Chalfont St Peter , United Kingdom