Harry Watt (director)
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Harry Watt (18 October 1906 – 2 April 1987) was a Scottish documentary and feature film director, who began his career working for John Grierson and Robert Flaherty. His 1959 film The Siege of Pinchgut was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in Edinburgh, and died in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.[1]
His film Target for Tonight won an honorary Academy Award in 1942.
Selected filmography
- Night Mail (1936)
- The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1937)
- Squadron 992 (1939)
- The First Days (1939)
- Dover Front Line (1940)
- London Can Take It! (1940)
- Christmas Under Fire (1941)
- Target for Tonight (1941)
- Nine Men (1943)
- Fiddlers Three (1944)
- The Overlanders (1946)
- Eureka Stockade (1949)
- Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
- West of Zanzibar (1954)
- The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
References
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