---
name: "Guy Green"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guy-green"
fi1m_id: "guy-green"
imdb_id: "nm0337885"
tmdb_id: 67619
wikidata_id: "Q707321"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "5 November 1913"
died: "15 September 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:56:39.666037+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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# Guy Green

## Identity

Guy Green

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guy-green
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guy-green
- **IMDb ID:** nm0337885
- **TMDB ID:** 67619
- **Wikidata ID:** Q707321
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Green_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67619

Cinematographer. Born 5 November 1913 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. Died 15 September 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 5 November 1913, Frome, Somerset, England, UK
- **Died:** 15 September 2005
- **Active:** 1942–1946
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Green_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67619

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84)

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## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenonline.org.uk, nytimes.com, britishcinematographer.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *In Which We Serve* (1942), Fi1m 74, Camera Operator — [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *A Profile of In Which We Serve* (2000), as Interviewee
- *Strong Medicine* (1986), series, Director
- *Strong Medicine* (1986), Director
- *Isabel's Choice* (1981), Director
- *Inmates: A Love Story* (1981), Director
- *Jimmy B. & Andre* (1980), Director
- *Jennifer: A Woman’s Story* (1979), Director
- *The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel* (1979), Director
- *The Devil's Advocate* (1977), Director
- *Once Is Not Enough* (1975), Director
- *Luther* (1974), Director
- *A Walk in the Spring Rain* (1970), Director
- *The Magus* (1968), Director
- *Pretty Polly* (1967), Director
- *A Patch of Blue* (1965), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *A Cinderella Named Elizabeth* (1965), Director
- *Diamond Head* (1962), Director
- *Light in the Piazza* (1962), Director
- *The Mark* (1961), Director
- *The Angry Silence* (1960), Director
- *SOS Pacific* (1959), Director
- *Sea of Sand* (1958), Director
- *The Snorkel* (1958), Director
- *House of Secrets* (1956), Director
- *Lost* (1956), Director
- *Portrait of Alison* (1955), Director, Writer
- *I Am a Camera* (1955), Director of Photography
- *The Dark Avenger* (1955), Director of Photography
- *For Better, for Worse* (1954), Director of Photography
- *River Beat* (1954), Director
- *Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue* (1953), Director of Photography
- *The Beggar's Opera* (1953), Director of Photography
- *The Hour of 13* (1952), Director of Photography
- *The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Night Without Stars* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Madeleine* (1950), Director of Photography
- *Adam and Evelyne* (1949), Director of Photography
- *The Passionate Friends* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Oliver Twist* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Blanche Fury* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Take My Life* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *Carnival* (1946), Director of Photography
- *The Way Ahead* (1944), Director of Photography
- *This Happy Breed* (1944), Camera Operator
- *Escape to Danger* (1943), Director of Photography
- *In Which We Serve* (1942), Camera Operator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1948: Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (won), for *Great Expectations*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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