Career
After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain"s Army Film Unit, Davis eventually worked his way up to focus puller and camera operator in low-budget British films of the 1950s.
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Desmond Davis
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By the 1960s, Davis worked as a camera operator on such internationally acclaimed films as A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Freud (directed by John Huston) and Tom Jones, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. At the 1966 San Sebastian International Film Festival, he won the Golden Seashell award for I Was Happy Here, which starred Sarah Miles.
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