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Harry Watt

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
4

Gender
Male

Birthday
October 18, 1906 (119 years old)

Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Harry Watt

Biography

Raymond Egerton 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, the son of the Scottish Liberal MP Harry Watt. He studied at Edinburgh University but failed to complete his degree. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy and worked in a number of industrial jobs.

Known For

Directing

1961The Boy Who Loved Horses...Director
1961Vidunderhunden Bara...Director
1959The Siege of Pinchgut...Director
1954West of Zanzibar...Director
1951Where No Vultures Fly...Director
1949Eureka Stockade...Director
1946The Overlanders...Director
1944Fiddlers Three...Director
1943Nine Men...Director
1943Save Your Shillings and Smile...Director
1942Twenty-One Miles...Director
1941Target for Tonight...Director
1940Christmas Under Fire...Director
1940London Can Take It!...Director
1940Britain at Bay...Director
1940Squadron 992...Director
1940The Front Line...Director
1939The First Days...Director
1938North Sea...Director
1937Big Money...Director
1936The Saving of Bill Blewitt...Director
1936Night Mail...Director
1935Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter...Director
19346.30 Collection...Director

Writing

1961The Boy Who Loved Horses...Writer
1961Vidunderhunden Bara...Writer
1959The Siege of Pinchgut...Adaptation
1959The Siege of Pinchgut...Screenplay
1954West of Zanzibar...Story
1951Where No Vultures Fly...Story
1949Eureka Stockade...Screenplay
1946The Overlanders...Writer
1944For Those in Peril...Screenplay
1943Nine Men...Writer
1938North Sea...Writer

Crew

1940War and Order...Script
1939Jamaica Inn...Special Effects

Production

1940The Story of an Air Communiqué...Producer
1940Health in War...Producer

Camera

1935Coal Face...Additional Photography
1935Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter...Additional Photography

Editing

1935Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter...Editor
19346.30 Collection...Editor

Acting

1986Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studiosas Interviewee
1978How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aranas Self
1971Film '72as Self
1938Wealth of a Nationas Commentator