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Desmond Davis est un Réalisateur, Scénariste, Producteur et Opérateur caméra Britannique né le 24 mai 1926

Desmond Davis

Desmond Davis
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Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 24 mai 1926
Mort 3 juillet 2021 (à 95 ans)

Desmond Davis est un cadreur, réalisateur et scénariste britannique né le 24 mai 1926 à Londres (Royaume-Uni).

Ses meilleurs films

Le Choc des Titans (1981)
(Réalisateur)
Tom Jones (1964)
(Opérateur caméra)
L'Odyssée De L'African Queen (1952)
(Clapper Loader)

Le plus souvent avec

Monty Berman
Monty Berman
(21 films)
Robert S. Baker
Robert S. Baker
(18 films)
John Gilling
John Gilling
(13 films)
Stanley Black
Stanley Black
(15 films)
John Addison
John Addison
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Desmond Davis (59 films)

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Caméraman

Colonel March Investigates, 1h10
Réalisé par Cy Endfield
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Boris Karloff, Sheila Burrell, Anthony Forwood, John Hewer, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Patricia Owens
Rôle Focus Puller
Note58% 2.909282.909282.909282.909282.90928
Karloff, in black eye patch and cloak, is Colonel March: head of the Department of Queer Complaints at Scotland Yard. He is an investigator of unusual criminal cases and activities. The film sees him solve a bank robbery (for which an innocent man was framed) and two murders involving complex tricks and disguises.
Recoil
Recoil (1953)
, 1h19
Réalisé par John Gilling
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown, John Horsley, Robert Raglan, Martin Benson
Rôle Focus Puller
Note60% 3.000443.000443.000443.000443.00044
When thieves rob and murder her jeweller father, Jean Talbot resolves to bring them to justice by posing as a criminal and infiltrating their gang. She builds up evidence against her father's murderer by pretending to be in love with him.
Trois pas vers la Potence, 1h21
Réalisé par John Gilling
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Scott Brady, Mary Castle, Ferdy Mayne, Michael Balfour, Colin Tapley, Ballard Berkeley
Rôle Focus Puller
Note64% 3.242393.242393.242393.242393.24239
Le commandant d'un cargo americain, Gregor Stevens, se rend a Londres afin de retrouver son frere, Larry, disparu depuis plusieurs mois. Il apprend que Larry a ete arrete et condamne a mort pour le meurtre d'un homme. Persuade de son innocence, Gregor mene son enquete pour le sauver.
L'Odyssée De L'African Queen, 1h45
Réalisé par John Huston, Guy Hamilton
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Comédie romantique, Action, Aventure, Historique, Romance
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale, La mer, Transport, Politique
Acteurs Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter C. Bull, Walter Gotell
Rôle Clapper Loader
Note76% 3.848173.848173.848173.848173.84817
C'est l'histoire d'un homme et d'une femme de caractères opposés, lui fruste et bourru, elle délicate et un peu coincée, qui se rencontrent à l'occasion de la guerre, vivent une histoire très forte, apprennent à s'apprécier et finissent par s'aimer.
The Voice of Merrill, 1h23
Réalisé par John Gilling
Origine Royaume-uni
Acteurs Valerie Hobson, James Robertson Justice, Edward Underdown, Henry Kendall, Garry Marsh, Samuel John Kydd
Rôle Focus Puller
Note66% 3.3313.3313.3313.3313.331
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead: struggling author Hugh Allen (Edward Underdown) who had previously been involved in a relationship with the dead woman; Allen's publisher Ronald Parker (Henry Kendall), who had been blackmailed out of several thousand pounds while she was in his employ, and arrogant playwright Jonathan Roach (James Robertson Justice) who clearly knew the woman, but is evasive about the exact nature of their acquaintance.
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The Frightened Man
Réalisé par John Gilling
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, Michael Ward, Dame Thora Hird, John Horsley
Rôle Clapper Loader
Note61% 3.095493.095493.095493.095493.09549
Junk dealer Roselli's dreams for his son Julius are disappointed when the young man is thrown out of Oxford after poor grades. The boy then gets involved with a gang of Camden Town jewel thieves for whom his father is secretly the fence, and when they attempt to rob a warehouse, Julius is injured in the getaway but continues his involvement. The gang next plan a raid on a jeweller’s in Hatton Garden and also plan to cut out Roselli. The old man tips off the police – unaware that his son is a member of the gang.
Curtain Up
Curtain Up (1952)
, 1h21
Réalisé par Ralph Foster Smart
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Kendall, Michael Medwin, Olive Sloane, Charlotte Mitchell
Rôle Clapper Loader
Note61% 3.0990053.0990053.0990053.0990053.099005
In an English provincial town, 'Drossmouth', a second-rate repertory company assemble at the Theatre Royal on Monday morning to rehearse the following week's play, a melodrama titled Tarnished Gold.
The Happiest Days of Your Life, 1h21
Réalisé par Frank Launder
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Le thème de l'éducation, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Guy Middleton, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby
Rôle Clapper Loader
Note71% 3.589093.589093.589093.589093.58909
Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.
Blackout
Blackout (1950)
, 1h18
Réalisé par Robert S. Baker
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Dinah Sheridan, Kynaston Reeves, Maxwell Reed, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Brennan, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Rôle Focus Puller
Note57% 2.8568852.8568852.8568852.8568852.856885
An engineer Christopher Pelly (Maxwell Reed), loses his eyesight in an accident. He goes to London to have an eye operation. There he wants to go to his friends house but the taxi driver dropped him at the wrong house in Kensington. In the house three men had murdered a person with a knife and the corpse was lying on the floor. Pelly doesn't know that he is in the wrong house, and seeing that he is blind, the three murderers don't kill him. Pelly reported the incident to the police but the police were unable to find the dead body.
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