Peter Graham Scott
Peter Graham Scott ( born October 27, 1923 in East Sheen, Surrey, England; † August 5, 2007 in Windlesham, Surrey, England ) was a British film director, screenwriter, film producer and editor.
Life and career
Peter Graham Scott, born in 1923 in East Sheen, Surrey, grew up in Isleworth, Middlesex, where he received acting lessons at the Italia Conti Academy. As a 17 -year-old he made his debut in a small supporting role in Roy Boultings Drama Pastor Hall and in the same year he began to experience behind the camera as assistant director for directors like Maurice Elvey and Gabriel Pascal to collect. In 1941 he was allowed already in Carol Reed's Kipps Drama - assisting novel of a simple people. He made the first writer experiences a year later at the short film CEMA.
After the end of World War II, he began first as an editor under the name Peter Scott in films such as Cyprus Is an Iceland (1946 ) or It Began on the Clyde (1946 ) to work before in 1948 with the thriller Panic at Madame Tussaud ' his first short film directed.
In 1952, he directed her first in the movie Dangerous order a thriller with George Raft in the lead role.
This was followed in the 1950s and 1960s many movies like the thriller The bill is paid by Griffith Jones and Honor Blackman, the horror film The band Captain Clegg with Peter Cushing and Oliver Reed, the drama school of the sweet life with Janet Munro and Alan Badel, the comedies No lock is safe from him with Charlie Drake, and O, my dear father, James Robertson Justice, or subterfuge thriller starring Gene Barry, Joan Collins and Richard Todd.
In addition, he directed in the 1960s and 1970s, numerous consequences for well-known British television series and mini- series such as The Avengers and melon (4 episodes), The Onedin Line ( 8 episodes), or secret project Doombolt.
Scotts productive film career was expressed in more than 60 directing for film and television, plus numerous film productions joined alongside his work as a screenwriter and editor.
In 1999, he published his memoirs under the title: British Television - The Inside Story.
From 1950 on, he was married to Mimi Martell. The couple had two sons and two daughters.
On August 5, 2007 Peter Graham Scott died at the age of 83 years in Windlesham, Surrey.