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Guy Green

Highest Rated: 100% Great Expectations (1946)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Magus (1968)

Birthday: Nov 5, 1913

Birthplace: Somerset, England, UK

While in his teens, Guy Green was hired to work as a clapper boy for a firm that made advertising films. He went into partnership operating a photographic portrait studio and then at age 20 entered the British film industry. Working his way up from camera assistant to camera operator to director of photography. In 1942, he was camera operator for "In Which We Serve," the patriotic documentary-like drama fashioned by Noel Coward and co-directed by Coward and David Lean. After serving a similar function on the Powell-Pressburger "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" (also 1942), he shot his first feature, "Escape to Danger" (1943). Lean tapped him as director of photography for "Great Expectations" (1946) and Green's mood-enhancing work earned an Oscar. He and Lean had another triumph with "Oliver Twist" (1948). From the opening shots of an impending storm through to the film's last sequence, the expert camerawork garnered almost universal praise. He continued to provide fine work on films like "The Story of Robin Hood" (1952) and "Decameron Nights" (1953).

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Highest rated movies

100% 88% Great Expectations
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100% 78% Captain Horatio Hornblower
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89% 91% A Patch of Blue
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80% 79% The Angry Silence
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75% 60% The Passionate Friends
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50% 52% The Magus
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76% The Mark
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10% Once Is Not Enough
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57% Diamond Head
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78% Light in the Piazza
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Strong Medicine Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inmates: A Love Story Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Isabel's Choice Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jimmy B. & Andre Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Devil's Advocate Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jennifer: A Woman's Story Director - 1979
No Score Yet 86% The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel Director - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Devil's Advocate Director - 1977
No Score Yet 10% Once Is Not Enough Director - 1975
No Score Yet 50% Luther Director - 1973
No Score Yet 23% A Walk in the Spring Rain Director - 1970
50% 52% The Magus Director - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Matter of Innocence Director - 1968
89% 91% A Patch of Blue Director,
Screenwriter
- 1965
No Score Yet 57% Diamond Head Director - 1963
No Score Yet 78% Light in the Piazza Director - 1962
No Score Yet 76% The Mark Director - 1961
80% 79% The Angry Silence Director - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet S.O.S. Pacific Director - 1960
No Score Yet 61% Sea of Sand Director - 1958
No Score Yet 76% The Snorkel Director - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Triple Deception Director - 1956
No Score Yet 20% Postmark for Danger Director,
Writer
- 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lost Director - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet River Beat Director - 1954
No Score Yet 35% Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue Cinematographer - 1953
No Score Yet 64% The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men Cinematographer - 1952
100% 78% Captain Horatio Hornblower Cinematographer - 1951
75% 60% The Passionate Friends Cinematographer - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Take My Life Cinematographer - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Carnival Screenwriter - 1946
100% 88% Great Expectations Cinematographer - 1946