Peter Graham Scott

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Peter Graham Scott (born October 27, 1923 in East Sheen , Surrey , England , † August 5, 2007 in Windlesham , Surrey, England) was a British film director , screenwriter , producer and film editor .

life and career

Peter Graham Scott, born in East Sheen, Surrey in 1923, grew up in Isleworth, Middlesex, where he took acting lessons at the Italia Conti Academy. At the age of 17 he made his debut in a small supporting role in Roy Boulting's drama Pastor Hall and in the same year he began to gain experience behind the camera as an assistant director with directors such as Maurice Elvey and Gabriel Pascal . In 1941 he was allowed to assist in Carol Reed's drama Kipps - a novel of a simple person . He made his first screenwriting experience a year later with the short film CEMA

After the end of the Second World War , he began to work as an editor under the name Peter Scott on films such as Cyprus Is an Island (1946) or It Began on the Clyde (1946), before he wrote his first crime novel Panic at Madame Tussaud in 1948 directed his own short film.

In 1952 he first directed the movie Dangerous Order, a thriller with George Raft in the lead role.

Numerous films followed in the 1950s and 1960s, including the crime film The Bill is Settled with Griffith Jones and Honor Blackman , the horror film The Gang of Captain Clegg with Peter Cushing and Oliver Reed , the drama School of the Sweet Life with Janet Munro and Alan Badel who have favourited Comedies No Castle Is Safe From Him with Charlie Drake , and Oh Dear Father with James Robertson Justice, or the thriller Excuse with Gene Barry , Joan Collins and Richard Todd .

In the 1960s and 1970s, he also directed numerous episodes for well-known British television series and miniseries such as Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (4 episodes), The Onedin Line (8 episodes), and Doombolt , a secret project .

Scott's prolific film career resulted in over 60 directorial work for film and television. There were also several film productions in which he worked as a screenwriter or editor.

In 1999 he published his memoir under the title: British Television - An Inside Story.

From 1950 he was married to Mimi Martell. The couple had two sons and two daughters.

Peter Graham Scott died on August 5, 2007 at the age of 83 in Windlesham, Surrey.

Awards

  • 1984: Honored with the Royal Television Society Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for television excellence

Filmography (selection)

Film director

  • 1952: Dangerous Mission (Escape Route)
  • 1957: The bill is paid (Account Rendered)
  • 1962: The Pot Carriers
  • 1962: The Gang of Captain Clegg (Captain Clegg)
  • 1963: School of the Sweet Life (Bitter Harvest)
  • 1963: No lock is safe from him (The Cracksman)
  • 1964: Oh, dear father (Father Came Too!)
  • 1965–1966: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (4 episodes)
  • 1967: Mr. 10 Percent (Mister Ten Per Cent)
  • 1968: Excursion (Subterfuge)
  • 1971–1974: The Onedin Line (8 episodes)
  • 1978: Doombolt Secret Project (The Doombolt Chase)

Screenwriter

film producer

Film editor

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data by Peter Graham Scott in: Directors in British and Irish cinema: a reference companion , by Robert Murphy, Geoff Brown, Alan Burton, BFI, 2006, p. 242
  2. ^ Obituary for Peter Graham Scott in: The Stage
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Peter Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH East Sheen , Surrey , England
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2007
Place of death Windlesham , Surrey , England