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Harry Watt

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.

On screen

  • Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
  • How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
  • Wealth of a Nation

Behind the camera

  • Vidunderhunden Bara
  • The Boy Who Loved Horses
  • The Siege of Pinchgut
  • West of Zanzibar
  • Where No Vultures Fly
  • Eureka Stockade
  • The Overlanders
  • For Those in Peril
  • Fiddlers Three
  • Nine Men
  • Save Your Shillings and Smile
  • Twenty-One Miles
  • Target for Tonight
  • London Can Take It!
  • Squadron 992
  • Britain at Bay
  • Christmas Under Fire
  • The First Days
  • North Sea
  • Night Mail
  • Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter
  • 6.30 Collection

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