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David Watkin

Born: 23 March 1925, Margate, Kent
Died: 19 February 2008, Brighton, E. Sussex

Highlighted works

  • The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room

    This nightmarishly surreal, quintessentially British comedy about everyday life after a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ was shelved by its bemused backers for over a year.

  • The Boy Friend

    Ken Russell’s vibrant nod to Busby Berkeley stars Twiggy as a naive ingénue looking for love.

  • Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    Hugh Hudson’s exhilarating account of the struggle by Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell to compete on their own terms at the 1924 Olympics seemed to herald a new highpoint in British cinema.

  • Holiday

    Holiday

    This promotional celebration of the joys of holidaying in Blackpool is one of the most fondly remembered of all the British Transport Films travelogues.

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