Edward Scaife

Director Of Photography

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Ted Scaife

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London, England, GB

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Former sound assistant and camera operator who graduated to cinematographer in the 1960s. Scaife shot several films for John Huston and also worked with John Ford and Basil Dearden....

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The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

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All Night Long (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Chummy

Holly And The Ivy, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) The Conquest Of Peru

Biography

Former sound assistant and camera operator who graduated to cinematographer in the 1960s. Scaife shot several films for John Huston and also worked with John Ford and Basil Dearden.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

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All Night Long (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Chummy Charles Mingus on bass and Tubby Hayes on vibes provide background as London club owner Rod (Richard Attenborough) and manager Cass (Keith Michell) talk shop in All Night Long, 1963.

Holly And The Ivy, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) The Conquest Of Peru On Christmas eve, Jenny (not-yet Dame Celia Johnson, until 1958) is just explaining to David (John Gregson) that she can’t marry him and move to South America because she dares not leave her widower vicar father (Ralph Richardson, only six years Johnson’s senior) whom we meet now, and who hasn’t even realized they’re involved, in The Holly And The Ivy, 1952.

Holly And The Ivy, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You've Always Got A Headache Relations arriving for Christmas at the Norfolk vicarage where Jenny (Celia Johnson) keeps house for her widow father Rev. Gregory (Ralph Richardson), greeting brother in law Richard (Hugh Williams), seeing off her semi-secret beau David (John Gregson), managing aunts (Maureen Delany, Margaret Halstan) and soldier brother (Denholm Elliott), Margaret Leighton traveling alone, in The Holly And The Ivy, 1952.

Dirty Dozen, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Volunteering England, 1944, General Worden (Ernest Borgnine), with aides Denton, Armbruster and Kinder (Robert Webber, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker) briefing the steely Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), all before the opening credits, in Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen, 1967.

Dirty Dozen, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) I Pick My Own Enemies With MP’s commanded by Richard Jaeckel, Lee Marvin as Reisman interviews military death row inmates for his maybe-suicidal with possible-amnesty mission, notably football hero Jim Brown as Jefferson, with Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland et al, in The Dirty Dozen, 1967.

Khartoum (1966) -- (Movie Clip) The Peace Of The Sudan A meeting that never happened, imagined by Robert Ardrey in his Academy Award-nominated screenplay, British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) makes his case to the zealot warlord known as "The Mahdi" (Laurence Olivier), in 1883 Sudan, in Khartoum, 1966.

Khartoum (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Leave Egypt Behind Producer Julian Blaustein and director Basil Dearden getting their money's worth, with African locations and narration by Leo Genn, adding gravity by identifying Laurence Olivier as the villain, opening Khartoum, 1966, starring Charlton Heston as General Charles "Chinese" Gordon.

Khartoum (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Envy God One might almost suspect Prime Minister Gladstone (Ralph Richardson) and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston), meeting here for the first time, ca. 1883, knew their conversation would appear in mid-20th century Hollywood epic about British Africa, in Khartoum, 1966.

Khartoum (1966) -- (Movie Clip) It's Good To Be Home Large staging as General Gordon (Charlton Heston), with his nonplussed aide (Richard Johnson), arrives at the surrounded Sudanese city specified in the title, greeted as a hero due to exploits there years earlier, actually shot near the Egyptian city of Sohag, in the epic Khartoum, 1966.

Kid For Two Farthings, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Unicorn Roaming London's markets, convinced that a magic unicorn would solve his problems and those of his adult friends, Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) at last finds it, in and offers his savings to a vagrant (Joseph Tomelty), in Carol Reed's A Kid For Two Farthings, 1956.

Kid For Two Farthings, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Fix Me A Fight Impatient Sonia (Diana Dors) is persuaded by maybe well-meaning Blackie (Lou Jacobi) that her body-builder boyfriend Sam (Joe Robinson) could make easy money wrestling, young Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) getting interested when Python (Primo Carnera) starts abusing aging Bully (Danny Green), in A Kid For Two Farthings, 1956, from the novel by Wolf Mankowitz.

Kid For Two Farthings, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) What's Wrong With Muscles? Ted Scaife's camera in London's Jewish Quarter, young Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) meets mum Joanna (Celia Johnson), her boss Avram (David Kossoff) and buddy Sam (Joe Robinson), opening A Kid For Two Farthings 1956, from Wolf Mankowitz's original screenplay.

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