Stanley Grant Explained

Stanley Grant
Birth Date:	13 July 1902
Birth Place:	Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Death Place:	Maidenhead, Berkshire United Kingdom
Othername:	William Stanley Grant
Yearsactive:	1936–1954

Stanley Grant (13 July 1902 – May 1993) was a British cinematographer and special effects expert. During the 1930s he worked mainly on quota quickies. In the 1940s he was employed on more prestigious films such as David Lean's Oliver Twist.^[1]

Selected filmography

Cinematographer

• Flame in the Heather (1935)
• Full Speed Ahead (1936)
• Find the Lady (1936)
• The Big Noise (1936)
• Highland Fling (1936)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
• The Black Tulip (1937)
• Jennifer Hale (1937)
• East of Ludgate Hill (1937)
• There Was a Young Man (1937)
• False Evidence (1937)
• Behind Your Back (1937)
• The Villiers Diamond (1938)
• Dial 999 (1938)
• The Last Barricade (1938)
• Ghost Ship (1952)

Special effects

• Uncle Silas (1947)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Oliver Twist (1948)

Bibliography

• Phillips, Gene. Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Notes and References

1. Phillips p.455