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name: "Davis Boulton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/davis-boulton"
fi1m_id: "davis-boulton"
imdb_id: "nm0099599"
tmdb_id: 70444
wikidata_id: "Q60829764"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "2 May 1911"
died: "29 January 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:23:14.724172+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Davis Boulton

## Identity

Davis Boulton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/davis-boulton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** davis-boulton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0099599
- **TMDB ID:** 70444
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60829764
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60829764, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70444

Cinematographer. Born 2 May 1911 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK. Died 29 January 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 2 May 1911, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- **Died:** 29 January 1989
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60829764, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70444

## Biography

Davis Boulton was a British cinematographer. Born on 2 May 1911 in Gloucestershire, England, he began his career as a unit stills photographer in the 1940s and 1950s on films including *Stage Fright* (1950).

He moved to director of photography roles in the early 1960s. His credits include *The Password Is Courage* (1962), *The Haunting* (1963), *Children of the Damned* (1964) and *Song of Norway* (1970). He was a member of the British Society of Cinematographers and died on 29 January 1989 in Malvern, Worcestershire.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, theasc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Haunting* (1963), Fi1m 84, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-haunting.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Great Waltz* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Danny Jones* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Song of Norway* (1970), Director of Photography
- *The Bushbaby* (1969), Director of Photography
- *It!* (1967), Director of Photography
- *The Frozen Dead* (1966), Director of Photography
- *The Secret of My Success* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Never Put It in Writing* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Children of the Damned* (1964), Director of Photography
- *The Haunting* (1963), Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-haunting.md)
- *The Password Is Courage* (1962), Director of Photography
- *Stage Fright* (1950), Still Photographer
- *Maytime in Mayfair* (1949), Still Photographer
- *Gasbags* (1941), Still Photographer
- *Night Train to Munich* (1940), Still Photographer

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