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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.

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Directing

1934

[ ] 6.30 Collection (Director)

1935

[ ] Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter (Director)

1936

[ ] Night Mail (Director)
[ ] The Saving of Bill Blewitt (Director)

1937

[ ] Big Money (Director)

1938

[ ] North Sea (Director)

1939

[ ] The First Days (Director)

1940

[ ] London Can Take It! (Director)
[ ] Squadron 992 (Director)
[ ] The Front Line (Director)
[ ] Britain at Bay (Director)
[ ] Christmas Under Fire (Director)

1941

[ ] Target for Tonight (Director)

1942

[ ] Twenty-One Miles (Director)

1943

[ ] Nine Men (Director)
[ ] Save Your Shillings and Smile (Director)

1944

[ ] Fiddlers Three (Director)

1946

[ ] The Overlanders (Director)

1949

[ ] Eureka Stockade (Director)

1951

[ ] Where No Vultures Fly (Director)

1954

[ ] West of Zanzibar (Director)

1959

[ ] The Siege of Pinchgut (Director)

1961

[ ] Vidunderhunden Bara (Director)
[ ] The Boy Who Loved Horses (Director)

Writing

1938

[ ] North Sea (Writer)

1943

[ ] Nine Men (Writer)

1944

[ ] For Those in Peril (Screenplay)

1946

[ ] The Overlanders (Writer)

1949

[ ] Eureka Stockade (Screenplay)

1951

[ ] Where No Vultures Fly (Story)

1954

[ ] West of Zanzibar (Story)

1959

[ ] The Siege of Pinchgut (Adaptation)
[ ] The Siege of Pinchgut (Screenplay)

1961

[ ] Vidunderhunden Bara (Writer)
[ ] The Boy Who Loved Horses (Writer)

Editing

1934

[ ] 6.30 Collection (Editor)

1935

[ ] Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter (Editor)

Crew

1939

[ ] Jamaica Inn (Special Effects)

1940

[ ] War and Order (Script)

Camera

1935

[ ] Coal Face (Additional Photography)
[ ] Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter (Additional Photography)

Production

1940

[ ] Health in War (Producer)
[ ] The Story of an Air Communiqué (Producer)

Actor

1938

[ ] Wealth of a Nation (Commentator)

1978

[ ] How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (Self)

1986

[ ] Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (Interviewee)