Biography
Guy Green was an English cinematographer and film director. He began working in the film industry in 1929 and became a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. As director of photography he shot David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and Oliver Twist (1948).
Green turned to directing in the mid-1950s. His films as director include The Angry Silence (1960), The Mark (1961) and A Patch of Blue (1965), which he also wrote and co-produced. He received a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and was appointed OBE in 2004 for services to British cinema. He died in Beverly Hills on 15 September 2005, aged 91.
