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Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC (5 November 1913 – 15 September 2005) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for the film Great Expectations.
Guy Green is well known to film audiences. Formerly a cinematographer, he was the first British D.P. to receive an Academy Award for his black-and-white photography on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). He founded the British Society of Cinematographers together with Freddie Young and Jack Cardiff.
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- Frome, Somerset, England, UK
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- Beverly Hills, California, USA
Guy Green is well known to film audiences. Formerly a cinematographer, he was the first British D.P. to receive an Academy Award for his black-and-white photography on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946).
- November 5, 1913
- September 15, 2005
Guy Green, a postwar British cinematographer who won an Academy Award for his black-and-white filming of director Sir David Lean’s “Great Expectations” and later directed “A Patch of Blue,”...
Sep 17, 2005 · Guy Green, who won an Academy Award for cinematography for the 1946 film ''Great Expectations,'' died on Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91. The cause was heart and kidney...
Nov 18, 1991 · Guy Green was born in Somerset on 5 November 1913. After leaving school he joined the Commercial Maritime Film Service as an assistant projectionist showing films aboard ocean liners.
Sep 15, 2005 · Directing. Camera. Acting. Writing. Production. Green was born in Frome, Somerset, England. He began working in film in 1929 and became a noted film cinematographer and a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers.
