Harry Watt
Directing
1906-10-18 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Raymond Egerton Harry Watt (18 October 1906 – 2 April 1987) was a Scottish documentary and feature film director, who began his career working for John Grierson and Robert Flaherty. His 1959 film The Siege of Pinchgut was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of the Scottish Liberal MP Harry Watt. He studied at Edinburgh University but failed to complete his degree. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy and worked in a number of industrial jobs.
Filmography
Cavalcanti
2026 · Movie
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
1986 · Movie
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
1978 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Boy Who Loved Horses
1961 · Movie
Vidunderhunden Bara
1961 · Movie
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959 · Movie
West of Zanzibar
1954 · Movie
Where No Vultures Fly
1951 · Movie
Eureka Stockade
1949 · Movie
The Overlanders
1946 · Movie
Fiddlers Three
1944 · Movie
For Those in Peril
1944 · Movie
Nine Men
1943 · Movie
Save Your Shillings and Smile
1943 · Movie
Twenty-One Miles
1942 · Movie
Target for Tonight
1941 · Movie
Christmas Under Fire
1940 · Movie
London Can Take It!
1940 · Movie
Britain at Bay
1940 · Movie
The Story of an Air Communiqué
1940 · Movie
War and Order
1940 · Movie
Health in War
1940 · Movie
The Front Line
1940 · Movie
Squadron 992
1940 · Movie
Jamaica Inn
1939 · Movie
The First Days
1939 · Movie
Night Mail
1938 · Movie
Wealth of a Nation
1938 · Movie
North Sea
1938 · Movie
Big Money
1937 · Movie
The Saving of Bill Blewitt
1936 · Movie
Coal Face
1935 · Movie
Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter
1935 · Movie
6.30 Collection
1934 · Movie