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screenwriter cinematographer

Desmond Evelyn Otho Cockburn Dickinson Bachelor of Science

Career

1902–1986) was a British cinematographer. He was cinematographer on Such Is the Law (1930). He directed Detective Lloyd (1932), notable as Britain"s only talkie serial.

During World World War II he made morale boosting documentaries.

He worked on Laurence Olivier"s version of Hamlet (1948).

Membership

British Society of Cinematographers.