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Thorold Dickinson
Highest Rated: 100% Gaslight (1940)
Lowest Rated: 96% The Queen of Spades (1949)
Birthday: Nov 16, 1903
Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK
Noted British cineaste whose reputation was established with the original screen version of the psychological thriller, "Gaslight" (1940). A skilled, intelligent director with a flair for fluid camerawork and a penchant for melodramas about men under great duress, Dickinson was also a keen documentarist, producing military training films for the British Army Kinematograph Service during WWII and serving as Chief of Film Services for the United Nations between 1956 and 1960. Dickinson made a handful of feature films on an intermittent basis during the 1940s and 50s, including a genuinely strange and haunting version of the Pushkin semi-fantasy, "The Queen of Spades" (1948) and one of the first important films in the history of Israeli cinema, "Hill 54 Does Not Answer" (1955).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out | Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Hill 24 Doesn't Answer | Director | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Secret People |
Director, Writer |
- | 1952 |
| 96% | 71% | The Queen of Spades | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men of Two Worlds | Director | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Next of Kin |
Director, Writer |
- | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Prime Minister | Director | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 77% | Gaslight | Director | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | Director | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Command | Director | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Calling the Tune | Director | - | 1936 |