Desmond Davis
, b. 1926
Desmond Davis is a British director and writer. Davis began his career as an apprentice clapper boy in the 1940s, working his way up to focus puller through the 1950s and then to camera operator from the mid-1950s until the early 1960s. Davis made his directorial debut in 1964, winning the Best Director award from the US National Board of Review for Girl with Green Eyes. He won another award, The Golden Seashell award at the San Sebastien International Film Festival in 1966 for I was Happy Here. Through the 1970s Davis directed largely for television, including episodes of the New Avengers and a TV adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1979). Davis is best known for Clash of the Titans (1981).
Sources:
Wikipedia (accessed September 3, 2020),
IMDb (accessed September 3, 2020).
Bio prepared by Aimee Hinds, University of Roehampton, hindsa@roehampton.ac.uk
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