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Filmography
1934
Java Head
(assistant director - uncredited)
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Actor (3 credits)
1949
The Third Man
Opening Narrator - UK Version (voice, uncredited)
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Self (10 credits)
1969
Omnibus
(TV Series documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
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Personal Details
Other Works:
Assistent to Edgar Wallace
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Publicity Listings:
4 Print Biographies
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Alternate Names:
Sir Carol Reed
Height:
6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Personal Quote:
I think it is the director's job--as in the old theatre--to convey faithfully what the author had in mind. Unless you have worked with the author in the first place you cannot convey to the actors what he had in mind nor can you convey to the editor at the end the original idea. In making a picture you have got to go back to the first stage to see how important something may be in establishing ...
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Trademark:
Children figure significantly in his films (The Fallen Idol (1948) told through a child's point of view, Boy with ball in The Third Man (1949), protagonists in
Oliver! (1968) are children; children are everywhere & see everything in
Odd Man Out (1947))
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