Background
Guy Green was born on 5 November 1913 in Somerset, United Kingdom.
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Guy Green was born on 5 November 1913 in Somerset, United Kingdom.
From the mid- 1930s, Green was a camera operator: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (42, Michael Powell) and In Which We Setxe (42, Noel Coward and David Lean).
He went on to be lighting cameraman on The Way Ahead (44, Carol Heed); Great Expectations (46, Lean); Take My Life (47, Ronald Neame); Oliver Twist (48, Lean); Captain Horatio Hornblower (51, Raoul Walsh); The Beggar’s Opera (53, Peter Brook); and Rob Roy (53, Harold French).
His early work as a director was neat and promising: House of Secrets and The Snorkel are ingenious and entertaining thrillers. But The Angry Silence, supposedly a break-through, encouraged his flashiness into the open. As a director of larger projects he has only exposed himself. The Mark was solemnly pretentious, A Patch of Blue strictly sentimental, and The Magus completely bewildered.