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Thorold Barron Dickinson CBE (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow director Martin Scorsese describing him as "a
Thorold Dickinson. Director: Hill 24 Doesn't Answer. Born in Bristol, England, Thorold Dickinson began his film career during the silent era as a writer. He went to work for Ealing in the 1930s, first as an editor and then as a director.
Thorold Dickinson remains a paradoxical figure among Britain's major film directors. Taken overall, his nine features display a degree of visual refinement and intellectual ambition unusual in a director attached to the mainstream British film industry.
Highest Rated: 100% Gaslight (1940) Lowest Rated: 96% The Queen of Spades (1949) Birthday: Nov 16, 1903. Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK. Noted British cineaste whose reputation was established ...
Though highly influential, Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984) remains a neglected figure in the canon of British filmmaking and film theory.
Thorold Dickinson was one of the most ambitious and skilled directors working in British film production during the thirties, forties and fifties, the era of classic cinema, yet his name and his work are hardly known today.
Thorold Dickinson was one of the most ambitious and skilled directors working in British film production during the thirties, forties and fifties, the era of classic cinema, yet his name and his work are hardly known today.
