Directing · geboren 1906-10-18 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Harry Watt

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.

Bekannt aus

• Riff-Piraten (1939) – Special Effects
• Night Mail (1938) – Director
• London Can Take It! (1940) – Director
• The Overlanders (1946) – Director
• Coal Face (1935) – Additional Photography
• Target for Tonight (1941) – Director
• Eureka Stockade (1949) – Director
• Zur Hölle mit Sydney (1959) – Director
• Nine Men (1943) – Director
• For Those in Peril (1944) – Screenplay
• Film '72 (1971) – Self
• North Sea (1938) – Director
• Christmas Under Fire (1940) – Director
• Fiddlers Three (1944) – Director
• Schwarzes Elfenbein (1951) – Director
• Westlich Sansibar (1954) – Director
• The First Days (1939) – Director
• Twenty-One Miles (1942) – Director
• Squadron 992 (1940) – Director
• Der Junge, der Pferde liebte (1961) – Director
• Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (1986) – Interviewee
• Vidunderhunden Bara (1961) – Director
• The Front Line (1940) – Director
• 6.30 Collection (1934) – Editor
• Britain at Bay (1940) – Director
• The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1936) – Director
• War and Order (1940) – Script
• Save Your Shillings and Smile (1943) – Director
• Wealth of a Nation (1938) – Commentator
• How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978) – Self
• Cavalcanti (2026) – Self (archive footage)
• Big Money (1937) – Director
• Health in War (1940) – Producer
• Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter (1935) – Director
• The Story of an Air Communiqué (1940) – Producer