Desmond Dickinson

Director Of Photography

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

May 25, 1902

Filmography

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The Man From Nowhere (1976)

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Beyond The Fog (1972)

Director of Photography

Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

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Director of Photography

Sophie's Place (1970)

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Decline and Fall ... of a Bird Watcher (1969)

Director of Photography

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City Of The Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel) -- (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Help Her, Lucifer!

City Of The Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel) -- (1960) -- (Movie Clip) More Effective At Midnight

Biography

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Man From Nowhere (1976)

Director Of Photography

Beyond The Fog (1972)

Director of Photography

Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Sophie's Place (1970)

Director of Photography

Decline and Fall ... of a Bird Watcher (1969)

Director of Photography

Baby Love (1969)

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Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)

2nd unit Photographer

The Devil's Daffodil (1967)

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Director of Photography

A Study in Terror (1966)

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Murder Most Foul (1965)

Director of Photography

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

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Murder Ahoy (1964)

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The Hands of Orlac (1964)

Photographer for English version

Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)

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Director of Photography

Two and Two Make Six (1962)

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Horror Hotel (1962)

Director of Photography

The Frightened City (1962)

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Director of Photography

Mary Had a Little ... (1961)

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Director of Photography

Foxhole in Cairo (1961)

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Intent to Kill (1959)

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Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Director of Photography

Orders to Kill (1958)

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Fire Down Below (1957)

Action of the Tiger (1957)

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The Last Man to Hang (1956)

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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

The Loves of Three Queens (1954)

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Carrington V.C. (1954)

Director Of Photography

The Man Between (1953)

Cinematographer

Director of Photography

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)

Cinematographer

The Browning Version (1951)

Director Of Photography

The Woman in Question (1950)

Cinematographer

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

Cinematographer

The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

Cinematographer

Director Of Photography

Visual Effects (Feature Film)

Wings and the Woman (1942)

Special Effects Photographer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Orders to Kill (1958)

Life Events

Videos

City Of The Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel) -- (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Help Her, Lucifer! Straight to historical business, British independent Vulcan Films (which would soon become the better-known Amicus) begins in 17th century Massachusetts, with Elizabeth Selwyn being burned, Fred Smith leading the mob, and Valentine Dyall, as agonized Puritan Jethrow, praying, opening City Of The Dead, 1960, a.k.a. Horror Hotel.

City Of The Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel) -- (1960) -- (Movie Clip) More Effective At Midnight Much of the short performance here of Christopher Lee as modern day professor Driscoll, after his dramatic lecture about a 1692 Massachusetts witch burning, supporting student Nan (Venetia Stevenson) planning some research, and tangling with her scientist brother (Dennis Lotis), in the British-made City Of The Dead, 1960, a.k.a. Horror Hotel.

City Of The Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel) -- (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Any Witches Buried There? Arriving at the spot named in the American-release title (Horror Hotel), student Nan (Venetia Stevenson) with hitcher Jethrow (whom we know to be 17th century witchcraft cultist), then the innkeeper (Elizabeth Selwyn), whom we saw burned in the opening, in the British-made City Of The Dead, 1960.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Blackmailer! Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie’s sleuth) with her associate Mr. Stringer (Stringer Davis, who was Mr. Rutherford) deducing the meaning of a cut-up newspaper found at a murder scene, ringing a landlady,(Megs Jenkins), and observed by the annoyed Inspector Craddock (Charles Tingwell) Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Lodger's Dilemma Husband of the star, Stringer Davis, as “Mr. Stringer,” appears with Ross Parker and Lucy Griffiths from the local theater company, as Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) arrives, having just caused her murder jury to be hung, with Sydney Arnold as the vicar, early in the third of four MGM-British features based on the Agatha Christie, Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Jane Marble? Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) has her own reasons for infiltrating a local theater company, but must audition for the fussy director Cosgood (second-billed Ron Moody, in his first scene), choosing a Robert Service poem that was a favorite of Rutherford’s, in the last of her MGM-British features as Agatha Christie’s sleuth, Murder Most Foul, 1964.

Murder Most Foul (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Open, What's All This Here? Clever and nearly nasty opening bit from director George Pollock, from the script by David Pursall and Jack Seddon, based on an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot novel, from Murder Most Foul, 1964, with a constable (Terry Scott) discovering what looks like a murder, in fictional Milchester, England.

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Bended Their Light To Me Jean Simmons as Ophelia, daughter of the adviser to the possibly murdered king, entirely in her voice-over and pantomime with the prince, (director and star Laurence Olivier) reporting, in fact to his enemies, on his visit, in the acclaimed 1948 production of Hamlet.

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) To Be Or Not To Be Laurence Olivier with his take on a well-known speech, famously mixed between oratory and voice-over, becoming the first actor ever to direct himself to an Academy Award, in Hamlet, 1948.

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Murder Most Foul With camera flourishes by Desmond Dickinson, director and star Laurence Olivier meets his father's ghost, the voice performed by Olivier with various sound treatments, in the 1948 Best Picture winner, Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Tragedy The star and director narrates the opening, guard Francisco (John Laurie) relieved by Bernardo (Esmond Knight), joined by Marcellus (Anthony Quayle) and Horatio (Norman Wooland), in Laurence Olivier's 1948 production of Hamlet.

Murder Ahoy -- (1964) -- (Movie Clip) To Put Backbone Into Young Jellyfish In her village where Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford, in an original, non-Agathae Christie story), who was outfitted with a naval suit during the credits, joins a meeting chaired by the bishop (Miles Malleson) but derailed by Ffolly-Hardwicke (Henry Longhurst), from the third in the MGM series, Murder Ahoy, 1964.

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