Stanley Pavey

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Richard Stanley Pavey , often short Stan Pavey (born December 23, 1913 in Bermondsey (London) , United Kingdom , † May 1984 in Surrey ) was a British cameraman .

Live and act

Pavey had learned his trade in the 1930s and then worked as a camera assistant or simple cameraman until the first years of World War II . Director Basil Dearden , who had last used him (1943), gave Pavey the opportunity in 1944 to work as chief cameraman for the first time. In this role Pavey could at the very beginning of his career to work on two major films British entertainment art: it was in 1945 one of several cameramen in the episodic horror story of Night and supplied the by Carol Reed in the fall of 1948, shot in Vienna in screen classic The Third Man with additional recordings.

Pavey's later contributions, on the other hand, were much more conventional: he photographed comedies, thrillers, a war film as well as dramas and melodramas, most recently a third-rate science fiction horror film with the lurid German title Frankenstein 70 - The Monster with the Fireclaw . Pavey's career ended in 1967 with a short film commentary on Roman Polański's Dance of the Vampires . After that he received no more orders.

Filmography

  • 1944: They Came to a City
  • 1944: Dreaming
  • 1945: Dream without End (Dead of Night)
  • 1945: Apotheker Sutton (Pink String and Sealing Wax)
  • 1946: Here Comes the Sun
  • 1947: Fame is the track
  • 1948: Daughter of Darkness (Daughter of Darkness)
  • 1948: The Small Voice
  • 1950: The Happiest Days of Your Life
  • 1951: The Galloping Major
  • 1952: Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
  • 1952: Top Secret
  • 1952: Shot in the Dark (Rough Shoot)
  • 1953: Don't Blame the Stork
  • 1954: The Castle Ghost (Happy Ever After)
  • 1954: The Fair of St. Trinian's (The Belles of St. Trinian's)
  • 1955: The Last Deadline (They Can't Hang Me)
  • 1956: The Man who Lost Himself (The Man in the Road)
  • 1957: Hour of Decision
  • 1957: The Ugly Truth (The Naked Truth)
  • 1958: Sally's Irish Rogue
  • 1959: The Goliath of Galway (Home is the Hero)
  • 1961: Mrs. Gibbon's Boys
  • 1962: The last voyage of U 123 (Mystery Submarine)
  • 1963: Alibi of Death (Girl in the Headlines)
  • 1966: Frankenstein 70 - The Monster with the Fireclaw (The Projected Man)
  • 1967: The Fearless Vampire Killers: Vampires 101

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personal data
SURNAME Pavey, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavey, Stan; Pavey, Richard Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bermondsey (London) , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH May 1984
Place of death Surrey