Biographies: Desmond Davis - Director

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A British director, born in London, England. He eventually made his way onto the camera in low-budget British films in the 1950s after an extended internship with the British Army Film Unit in the 1940s as a clapper boy. He had served as a camera operator on well-known movies by the 1960s, including Freud (1962), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and A Taste of Honey (1961). Girl with Green Eyes, his first feature film as a director, took home the National Board of Review Award for Best Director in 1964. Among his best-known films are Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966), The Sign of Four (1983), and the 1981 adaptation of Clash of the Titans. He died on July 3, 2021.

• 19 May 2025
• Salma El-Sharkawy