Arthur Crabtree

Arthur Crabtree 29 October 1900 Shipley Yorkshire England 15 March 1975 Worthing Sussex England was a British cinematographer and film director Crabtree earliest credits as a cinematographer working on such films as the Will Hay comedies Oh Mr Porter and Good Morning Boys both 1937 and Hey Hey USA 1938 the Arthur Askey vehicle Charleys BigHearted Aunt 1940 and The Man in Grey 1943 and Fanny by Gaslight 1944 for Gainsborough Pictures Crabtree continued his association with Gainsborough as he started his directorial career beginning with the melodramatic fantasies Madonna of the Seven Moons 1945 starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger and Caravan 1946 His last two films were Fiend Without a Face 1958 and Horrors of the Black Museum 1959 a science fiction and horror respectively both of which have become cult favourites although the former enjoys a better critical reputation He also directed episodes of television series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Adventures of Sir Lancelot both 1956 Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Crabtree licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia